Jun Zhu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology
"One challenge in the study of mammalian gene expression in the post-genomic era is quantitative analysis of combinatorial events, which play crucial roles in cellular plasticity and diversity."Jun Zhu, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Institute of Genome Science and Policy. He received his PhD in Biochemistry at SUNY, Stony Brook in 2001. Under the supervision of Dr. Adrian R. Krainer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, he studied the regulatory mechanism of alternative splicing. Dr. Zhu became interested in technology development, mainly in transcriptome profiling, when he joined Dr. George Church' s lab at Harvard Medical School. He accepted a position in the IGSP and the Department of Cell Biology at Duke in 2004.
In Dr. George Church' s lab at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Zhu has developed and applied a single-molecule based technology (PCR Colony or Polony) for complex alternative splicing profiling. He will continue to develop novel high throughput technologies for gene expression study.
Contact Information
Jun Zhu
Phone: 919-668-3585
2353A CIEMAS
jun.zhu@duke.edu