Jinxin Gao

Dr. Jinxin Gao is employed as a Post-Doctoral researcher in Department of Biology, New York University (NYU), New York, NY, USA. He has received the doctoral degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, and have more than 10 years research experience in Molecular Biology, Fungal Biology, Plant Pathology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, and Microbial Biotechnology. He received various awards and honors including University-Level Outstanding Graduate Student (2008), and University-Level Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award (2011) from Shenyang Agricultural University; and National Scholarship (2014), Outstanding Paper of Journal of Plant Protection (2016, China Society of Plant Protection), and First-Class Scientific and Technological Progress Award of Ministry of Education (2017, the 19th accomplisher) from SJTU, China. He has been published 21 SCI papers in various international journals.
He is serving as an reviewer in 13 journals including BMC Genomics, plant disease, Environmental Microbiology, Plos One, Agronomy Journal, Plant Biology, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (Frontiers), Journal of Integrative Agriculture, New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, Archives of Microbiology, SN Applied Sciences, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Life Sciences.

I specialize in the field of Epigenetics. In eukaryotes, DNA is packaged together with histone proteins into an ordered, highly complex chromatin structure. Compared with transcriptionally active and loosely packaged euchromatin, heterochromatin is gene poor and appears highly compact throughout the cell cycle. Heterochromatin plays an important role in gene regulation, chromosome segregation, and genome stability. My aim is to understand the epigenetic mechanisms which regulate the establishment and maintenance of heterochromatin in fission yeast.