Jing Li (李 婧)
Associate Professor
Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center
lijing3@sysucc.org.cn; ntotllijing@gmail.com
Education and Research Experience
- 2019.11 – now Associate Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center
- 2014.8-2019.9 Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN), France. Advised by Dr. Gianni Liti.
- 2009.9-2014.6 Ph. D. in Biology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, China. Advised by Dr. Dacheng Tian.
- 2005.9-2009.6 B. Sc. in Biological Science, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, China.
Honors and Awards
- Junior editor of Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2023-2025
- Guangdong Pearl River Talents Program, 2022-2025
- 100 Top Talents Program, Sun Yat-Sen University, 2019-2022
- Postdoctoral fellowship from Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (2014-2017, 3-year salary)
- Youth Medal in Nanjing University, 2014
- Outstanding Graduate in Nanjing University, 2014
- National Scholarship for Doctoral Graduate Students, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (30,000 CNY), 2013
- Travel grant from graduate school, Nanjing University, 2012
Research funding
- 2019.11-2022.10 Sun Yat-sen University, 100 Top Talents Program Starting Fund.
PI. 500,000 CNY. - 2021.01-2023.12 Young Scientists Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China.
PI. 240,000 CNY. - 2021.04-2023.03 Guangzhou Basic and Applied Basic Research Project, Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau.
PI. 50,000 CNY. - 2022.01 – 2024.12 General Project, Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province.
PI. 100,000 CNY.
Conference presentations
- 2023 SMBE Regional Evolutionary Genetics Meeting, Shanghai, China
Oral presentation: genome instability footprint under drug treatments
- 2023 The 14th model fungi seminar in China, Shenyang, China
Oral presentation: Mutational signatures under rapamycin and hydroxyurea exposures
- 2022 EMBO Workshop: Molecular mechanisms in evolution and ecology, Heidelberg, Germany
Poster presentation: Population bottlenecks under drug selection reveal global footprints of genome instability (participate virtually, presented by Gianni Liti on-site)
- 2021 The 13th model fungi seminar in China, Wuhan, China
Oral presentation: Mutational profiling of neutrally evolving yeasts under selective environments
- 2019 Canceropole annual meeting, Saint Raphael, France
Invited presentation: Shared molecular targets confer resistance over short and long evolutionary timescales
- 2018 Le TOR de France, Nice, France
Oral presentation: Patterns of drug selection reveal shared molecular targets over short and long evolutionary timescales
- 2016 Journées Jeunes Chercheurs de la Fondation ARC, Paris, France
Oral presentation: A genetic framework to understand how heterogeneous cell populations escape cancer chemotherapy
- 2016 EMBO conference: Experimental Approaches to Evolution and Ecology Using Yeast and Other Model Systems, Heidelberg, Germany
Poster presentation: Experimental evolution of highly heterogeneous yeast populations
- 2012 Yeast Genetics & Molecular Biology Meeting, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Poster presentation: Experimental evolution of genetic drift in lab yeast populations.
Synergistic activities
- 2012-2014 Academic Assistant of China’s Top-Notch Undergraduate Training Program in School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University
- 2011 International Youth Seminar on Life and Ch’an, Taiwan
- 2008 Field Practice of Integrated Investigation Group of Nanjing University, Lake Baikal, Irkutsk, Russia
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