Biography

Dr. Ding Jun Jin received his Ph.D. from the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Carol Gross. As a principal investigator Dr. Jin was at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NCI, in Bethesda from 1991 to 2003, and joined the Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, NCI, in Frederick in 2004. 

Research Intrest

Chromosome Biology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Systems Biology 

List of Publications
Cagliero C, Zhou YN, Jin DJ (2014) Spatial organization of transcription machinery and its segregation from the replisome in fast-growing bacterial cells. Nucleic Acids Res. 42/22: 13696-13705,
Jin DJ, Cagliero C, Zhou YN (2013) Role of RNA polymerase and transcription in the organization of the bacterial nucleoid. Chem. Rev. 113: 8662-82.
Yang ZX, Zhou YN, Yang Y, Jin DJ (2010) Polyphosphate binds to the principal sigma factor of RNA polymerase during starvation response in Helicobacter pylori. Mol Microbiol. 77: 618-27.
Cabrera JE, Jin DJ (2003) The distribution of RNA polymerase in Escherichia coli is dynamic and sensitive to environmental cues. Mol Microbiol. 50: 1493-505.
Zhou YN, Jin DJ (1998) The rpoB mutants destabilizing initiation complexes at stringently controlled promoters behave like "stringent" RNA polymerase in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 95: 2908-13.