Yujing Li, Ph.D.

Yujing Li, Ph.D.
Senior Associate, Department of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine, USA

Biography

Yujing Li has received Ph.D from Institute of Genetics, Chinese academy of Sciences, Beijing China. Currently, he is a senior scientist at the Department of human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine. His research interests include molecular genetics, neuroscience, epigenetics, and chemical biology approach towards dissection of RNAi pathway. He had authored more than 30 peer -reviewed papers and several book chapters.

Research Interest

Epigenetic study on 5hmC and cancer, as well as 5hmC and neuron development /neurodegeneration (5-hmC-rich DNA capture, deep sequencing, and RNA-seq, High-throughput (HTS) sequencing of small RNAs and epigenetic regulation of mental disease- Depression, MicroRNAs in breast cancer.