Jichao Chen

Stanford University School of Medicine
279 Campus Drive, Beckman Center B400, Stanford, CA 94305-5307
Email:  jchen35@stanford.edu

EDUCATION

2001-2006 Ph.D. Molecular Biology and Genetics The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, advisor: Dr. Jeremy Nathans
2004-2006 M.H.S.Bioinformatics The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, advisor: Dr. Karl W. Broman
1997-2001 B.S.Biochemistry Fudan University, Shanghai China, advisor: Dr. Kaiming Cao

EXPERIENCE

Apr. 2007 - present Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Mark A. Krasnow, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Sept. 2006 - Mar. 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Jeremy Nathans, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Jan. 2002 - Aug. 2006 Research Assistant, Dr. Jeremy Nathans, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Sept. 2001 - Dec. 2001 Research Assistant, Dr. Jef D. Boeke, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Sept. 1999 - Jun. 2001 Research Assistant, Dr. Kaiming Cao, Fudan University, Shanghai China

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Chen J. and Nathans J. (2007) Estrogen related receptor beta (Nr3b2) controls epithelial cell fate and endolymph production by the stria vascularis. Dev. Cell accepted


  2. Chen J. and Nathans J. (2007) Genetic ablation of cone photoreceptors eliminates retinal folds in the retinal degeneration 7 (rd7) mouse. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 48:2799-2805.


  3. Yarrington RM., Chen J., Bolton EC. and Boeke JD. (2007) Mn2+ suppressor mutations and biochemical communication between Ty1 reverse transcriptase and RNase H domains. J. Virol. May 30 [Epub ahead of print].


  4. Chen J., Rattner A. and Nathans J. (2006) Effects of L1 retrotransposon insertion on transcript processing, localization, and accumulation: lessons from the retinal degeneration 7 mouse and implications for the genomic ecology of L1 elements. Hum. Mol. Genet. 15:2146-2156.


  5. Chen J., Rattner A. and Nathans J. (2005) The rod photoreceptor-specific nuclear receptor Nr2e3 represses transcription of multiple cone-specific genes. J. Neurosci. 25:118-129.


  6. Rattner A., Chen J., and Nathans J. (2004) Proteolytic shedding of the extracellular domain of photoreceptor cadherin. Implication for outer segment assembly. J. Biol. Chem. 279:42202-42210.


  7. Ge X., Chen J., Li N., Lin Y., Sun C., and Cao K. (2003) Resistance function of rice lipid transfer protein LTP110. J. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 36:603-607.


  8. Ge X., Chen J., Sun C., and Cao K. (2003) Preliminary study on the structural basis of the antifungal activity of a rice lipid transfer protein. Protein Eng. 16:387-390.


  9. Ge XC, Chen JC, Wang WY, Cao KM and Sun CR (2002) [Construction of the mutants of rice nonspecific lipid transfer protein and expression comparison in two kinds of thioredoxin fusion expression vectors.] Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao 18:167-171.


  10. Ge XC, Chen JC, Lin Y, Sun CR and Cao KM (2002) [Expression, purification and function of rice nonspecific lipid transfer protein.] Sheng Wu Hua Xue Yu Sheng Wu Wu Li Xue Bao (Shanghai) 34:83-87.


  11. Ge XC, Zong H, Chen JC, Cao KM, Sun CR (2002) Isolation of a rice gene homologous to the human putative tumor suppressor gene QM. Chineses Rice Research Newsletter 10:2-3.

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HONORS

2007Jane Coffin Childs Fellow
2007Ph.D. Phi Beta Kappa
2001Graduation as first place in Fudan University School of Life Sciences (117 students)
2000Monsanto Fellowship for distinguished students
 Excellent Student of Fudan University
 Outstanding Student Fellowship of Fudan University
 First rate People Scholarship of Fudan University
1999Monsanto Fellowship for distinguished students
 Excellent Student of Fudan University
 Outstanding Student Fellowship of Fudan University
 First rate People Scholarship of Fudan University
1998Hongkong Sponsor Fellowship for distinguished students
 Excellent Student of Fudan University
 Outstanding Student Fellowship of Fudan University
 Second rate People Scholarship of Fudan University
1997Tan Jiazhen Life Science Fellowship
 The Freshman Fellowship for excellent performance in the National College Entrance Examinations
 (the third highest overall score among more than 20,000 students in Shanghai)