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Hongjian Jin, PhD

Hongjian Jin, PhD

  • Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Transcriptomics

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow - Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
PhD
, Cell Biology - Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
MS
, Genetics - Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

About

Dr. Hongjian Jin is a senior bioinformatics research scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, He is particularly interested in understanding transcriptional regulation and its roles in childhood and adult cancers.

Research Interests

  • Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms linked to onset and development of diseases
  • Developing analytical workflows for multivariate omics data

Selected Publications

Mondal B, Jin H, Kallappagoudar S, Sedkov Y, Martinez T, Sentmanat MF, Poet GJ, Li C, Fan Y, Pruett-Miller SM, Herz HM. The histone deacetylase complex MiDAC regulates a neurodevelopmental gene expression program to control neurite outgrowth. Elife. 2020 Apr 16;9. pii: e57519. doi: 10.7554/eLife.57519. PMID: 32297854

Abdelsamed HA, Zebley CC, Nguyen H, Rutishauser RL, Fan Y, Ghoneim HE,, Crawford JC, Alfei F, Alli S, Ribeiro SP, Castellaw AH, McGargill MA, Jin H, Boi SK, Speake C, Serti E, Turka LA, Busch ME, Stone M, Deeks SG, Sekaly RP, Zehn D, James EA, Nepom GT, Youngblood BBeta cell-specific CD8+ T cells maintain stem cell memory-associated epigenetic programs during type 1 diabetes. Nat Immunol. 2020 Mar 30. doi: 10.1038/s41590-020-0633-5. PMID: 32231298

Jin H, Kasper LH, Larson JD, Wu G, Baker SJ,  Zhang J, Fan Y. ChIPseqSpikeInFree: A ChIP-seq normalization approach to reveal global changes in histone modifications without spike-in. Bioinformatics. 2019 Sep 30. pii: btz720. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz720. 

Silveira AB, Kasper LH, Fan Y, Jin H, Wu G, Shaw TI, Zhu X, Larson JD, Easton J, Shao Y, Yergeau DA, Rosencrance C, Boggs K, Rusch MC, Ding L, Zhang J, Finkelstein D, Noyes RM, Russell BL, Xu B, Broniscer A, Wetmore C, Pounds SB, Ellison DW, Zhang J, Baker SJ. H3.3 K27M depletion increases differentiation and extends latency of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma growth in vivo. Acta Neuropathol. 2019;137(6):1021.

Xu Y, Melo-Cardenas J, Zhang Y, Gau I, Wei J, Montauti E, Zhang Y, Gao B, Jin H, Sun Z, Lee SM, Fang D. The E3 ligase Hrd1 stabilizes Tregs by antagonizing inflammatory cytokine-induced ER stress response. JCI Insight. 2019;4(5)

Larson JD, Kasper LH, Paugh BS, Jin H, Wu G, Kwon CH, Fan Y, Shaw TI, Silveira AB, Qu C, Xu R, Zhu X, Zhang J, Russell HR, Peters JL, Finkelstein D, Xu B, Lin T, Tinkle CL, Patay Z, Onar-Thomas A, Pounds SB, McKinnon PJ, Ellison DW, Zhang J, Baker SJ. Histone H3.3 K27M Accelerates Spontaneous Brainstem Glioma and Drives Restricted Changes in Bivalent Gene Expression. Cancer Cell. 2019;35(1):140-155.

Kim J, Jin H, Zhao JC, Yang YA, Li Y, Yang X, Dong X, Yu J. FOXA1 inhibits prostate cancer neuroendocrine differentiation. Oncogene. 2017;36(28):4072-4080

Jin HJ, Jung S, DebRoy AR, Davuluri RV. Identification and validation of regulatory SNPs that modulate transcription factor chromatin binding and gene expression in prostate cancer. Oncotarget. 2016;7(34):54616-54626

Zhao JC, Fong KW, Jin HJ, Yang YA, Kim J, Yu J. FOXA1 acts upstream of GATA2 and AR in hormonal regulation of gene expression. Oncogene. 2016;35(33):4335-44.

Yin YW, Jin HJ, Zhao W, Gao B, Fang J, Wei J, Zhang DD, Zhang J, Fang D. The Histone Acetyltransferase GCN5 Expression Is Elevated and Regulated by c-Myc and E2F1 Transcription Factors in Human Colon Cancer. Gene Expr. 2015;16(4):187-96

Kim J, Wu L, Zhao JC, Jin HJ, Yu J. TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusions induce prostate tumorigenesis by modulating microRNA miR-200c. Oncogene. 2014;33(44):5183-92.

Jin HJ, Zhao JC, Wu L, Kim J, Yu J. Cooperativity and equilibrium with FOXA1 define the androgen receptor transcriptional program. Nat Commun. 2014;5:3972.

Wu L, Runkle C, Jin HJ, Yu J, Li J, Yang X, Kuzel T, Lee C, Yu J. CCN3/NOV gene expression in human prostate cancer is directly suppressed by the androgen receptor. Oncogene. 2014;33(4):504-13.

Wu L, Zhao JC, Kim J, Jin HJ, Wang CY, Yu J. ERG is a critical regulator of Wnt/LEF1 signaling in prostate cancer. Cancer Res. 2013 Oct 1;73(19):6068-79.

Jin HJ, Kim J, Yu J. Androgen receptor genomic regulation. Transl Androl Urol. 2013:157-177

Jin HJ, Zhao JC, Ogden I, Bergan RC, Yu J. Androgen receptor-independent function of FoxA1 in prostate cancer metastasis. Cancer Res. 2013;73(12):3725-36.

Sun Q, Jin HJ, Bond JS. Disruption of the meprin alpha and beta genes in mice alters homeostasis of monocytes and natural killer cells. Exp Hematol. 2009;37(3):346-56

Jin HJ, Shao JZ, Xiang LX, Wang H, Sun LL. Global identification and comparative analysis of SOCS genes in fish: insights into the molecular evolution of SOCS family. Mol Immunol. 2008;45(5):1258-68.

Full List of Publications

Last update: June 2020

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