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Educational Background

PhD, Virginia Tech, 2013-2017
MPhil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong?, 2010-2012
BS, Nanjing Agricultural University, 2006-2010

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, °ÄÃÅ100%×î׼һФһÂë, 2023-Present

Graduate Faculty, °ÄÃÅ100%×î׼һФһÂë, 2023-Present

Postdoctoral Associate, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 2017-2023

Current Courses

Immunology (BIO4201/BIO5573)

Microbial Biotechnology (BIO5539/BIO4150)

Biological Research (BIO5995)

Biology Forum (BIO4990)

Undergraduate Research (BIO499x)

Selected Publications

• Sultana S, Abdullah M, Li J, Hochstrasser M, Kachroo AH (2023) Species-specific protein-protein interactions govern the humanization of the 20S proteasome in yeast. 
• Li J (2022) First person ¨C Jianhui Li. 
• Li J, Hochstrasser M (2022) Selective microautophagy of proteasomes is initiated by ESCRT-0 and is promoted by proteasome ubiquitylation.  (Featured in First Person interviews).
• Ryu H-Y, Zhao D, Li J, Su D, Hochstrasser M (2020) Histone sumoylation promotes Set3 histone-deacetylase complex- mediated transcriptional regulation. 
• Li J, Hochstrasser M (2020) Microautophagy regulates proteasome homeostasis. 
• Li J, Breker M, Graham M, Schuldiner M, Hochstrasser M (2019) AMPK regulates ESCRT-dependent microautophagy of proteasomes concomitant with proteasome storage granule assembly during glucose starvation.  (Featured in Perspective articles).
• Yang X, Li J, and Yu W (2019) Synthesis of a wheat/maize hybrid CENH3 gene, the genetic transformation of wheat, its chromosomal localization and effects on chromosome behaviors in wheat/maize somatic hybrids. 
• Liu H*, Soyars C*, Li J*, Fei Q, He G, Peterson BA, Meyers BC, Nimchuk ZL and Wang X (2018) CRISPR/Cas9- mediated resistance to cauliflower mosaic virus.  (*co-first author).
• Li J, Fuchs S, Zhang J, Wellford S, Schuldiner M, and Wang X (2016) An unrecognized function for COPII components in recruiting the viral replication protein BMV 1a to the perinuclear ER. 
• Zhang J, Zhang Z, Chukkapalli V, Nchoutmboube JA, Li J, Randall G, Belov GA, and Wang X (2016) Positive-strand RNA viruses stimulate host phosphatidylcholine synthesis at viral replication sites. 
• ?Yang X, Li J, Chen L, Louzada E, He J, and Yu W (2015) Stable mitotic inheritance of rice minichromosomes in cell suspension cultures. 
• ?Zhang J, Li J, Garcia-Ruiz H, Bates PD, Mirkov TE, and Wang X (2014) A stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase, NbSACPD-C, is critical for ovule development in Nicotiana benthamiana. 

Recognition & Awards

• Scholarship Excellence Award, PPWS, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2017
• Reginald and Phyllis Nelson Scholarship, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2016