iYeast

Hello, welcome to my website!

My name is Jing Li (李婧) (twitter: @iYeast_jingli). I was born in Suzhou, a lovely city famous for its canals and private gardens. I attended Nanjing University in 2005 and got my bachelor’s degree in Biology. I stayed in Nanjing University and started my PhD training in GATTACA Lab under the advisement of Dr. Dacheng Tian. During that time, I combined wet lab and bioinformatics approaches to understand several basic questions in genetics and molecular evolution, including the evolution of plant resistant genes and the influence of GC-content on amino acid usages. After I got my PhD in 2014, I moved to France to continue the training as postdoc. During my postdoc from 2014 to 2019, I worked with Dr. Gianni Liti at IRCAN and tried to understand the mechanisms of how cells getting adapted to drugs, briefly, how drug resistance occurring by standing variation and de novo mutations. To address this, I used budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as the model organism, performed experimental evolution and applied high-throughput sequencing and phenotyping to study evolution in real time. In November 2019, I came back to China and started to work at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center (SYSUCC) as an Associate Professor. I have broad interest in genetics, genomics and evolution, especially fascinated by the open question “how organisms respond to the changing environments by adaptive evolution”.

Other interests: travel, tennis, film