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Overview

Jian Feng is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology. Their subfields of study include molecular biology, pharmacology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, and neurology.

The scientist's main research topics cover a range of areas such as pluripotent stem cells research, epigenetics and DNA methylation, CRISPR and genetic engineering, neuroscience and neural engineering, nuts composition and effects, neurological disorders and treatments, and gut microbiota and health.

Jian Feng has contributed to publications in several venues, notably:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Journal of Ethnopharmacology
  • Experimental Biology and Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers by Jian Feng include the following:

  • "Transient inhibition of mTOR in human pluripotent stem cells enables robust formation of mouse-human chimeric embryos" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "The role of 14-3-3 proteins in cell signalling pathways and virus infection" (2021, Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine)
  • "RNA splicing regulators play critical roles in neurogenesis" (2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA)
  • "Generation of human A9 dopaminergic pacemakers from induced pluripotent stem cells" (2022, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • "Longitudinal Changes in Diet Cause Repeatable and Largely Reversible Shifts in Gut Microbial Communities of Laboratory Mice and Are Observed across Segments of the Entire Intestinal Tract" (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)

Jian Feng collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Zhen Yan
  • Houbo Jiang
  • Li Li
  • Zhixing Hu
  • Hanqin Li

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Dnmt1 and Dnmt3a maintain DNA methylation and regulate synaptic function in adult forebrain neurons

    Jian Feng;Yu Zhou;Yu Zhou;Susan L Campbell;Thuc Le

  • Dnmt3a regulates emotional behavior and spine plasticity in the nucleus accumbens

    Quincey LaPlant;Quincey LaPlant;Vincent Vialou;Herbert E Covington;Dani Dumitriu

  • Acute stress enhances glutamatergic transmission in prefrontal cortex and facilitates working memory

    Eunice Y. Yuen;Wenhua Liu;Ilia N. Karatsoreos;Jian Feng

  • Phospholipase Cγ2 Is Essential in the Functions of B Cell and Several Fc Receptors

    Demin Wang;Jian Feng;Jian Feng;Renren Wen;Jean-Christophe Marine

  • Pharmacological Rescue of Mitochondrial Deficits in iPSC-Derived Neural Cells from Patients with Familial Parkinson’s Disease

    Oliver Cooper;Hyemyung Seo;Shaida Andrabi;Cristina Guardia-Laguarta

  • Dynamic expression of de novo DNA methyltransferases Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b in the central nervous system

    Jian Feng;Hua Chang;En Li;Guoping Fan

  • Activation of Jak2 catalytic activity requires phosphorylation of Y1007 in the kinase activation loop.

    Jian Feng;Bruce A. Witthuhn;Tadashi Matsuda;Franz Kohlhuber

  • Spinophilin regulates the formation and function of dendritic spines

    Jian Feng;Zhen Yan;Adriana B Ferreira;Kazuhito Tomizawa

  • Exercise impacts brain-derived neurotrophic factor plasticity by engaging mechanisms of epigenetic regulation.

    F. Gomez-Pinilla;Y. Zhuang;J. Feng;Z. Ying

  • diffReps: detecting differential chromatin modification sites from ChIP-seq data with biological replicates.

    Li Shen;Ning-Yi Shao;Xiaochuan Liu;Ian Maze

  • Sex Differences in Nucleus Accumbens Transcriptome Profiles Associated with Susceptibility versus Resilience to Subchronic Variable Stress

    Georgia E. Hodes;Madeline L. Pfau;Immanuel Purushothaman;H. Francisca Ahn

  • Parkin Binds to α/β Tubulin and Increases their Ubiquitination and Degradation

    Yong Ren;Jinghui Zhao;Jian Feng

  • Different presynaptic roles of synapsins at excitatory and inhibitory synapses.

    Daniel Gitler;Yoshiko Takagishi;Jian Feng;Yong Ren

  • Mechanisms for acute stress-induced enhancement of glutamatergic transmission and working memory.

    Eunice Y. Yuen;Wenhua Liu;Ilia N. Karatsoreos;Yong Ren

  • Paternal Transmission of Stress-Induced Pathologies

    David M. Dietz;Quincey LaPlant;Emily L. Watts;Georgia E. Hodes

  • Protein phosphatase 1 modulation of neostriatal AMPA channels: regulation by DARPP-32 and spinophilin.

    Zhen Yan;Linda Hsieh-Wilson;Jian Feng;Kazuhito Tomizawa

  • Epigenetic Regulation of Neural Gene Expression and Neuronal Function

    Jian Feng;Shaun Fouse;Guoping Fan

  • Prefrontal Cortical Circuit for Depression- and Anxiety-Related Behaviors Mediated by Cholecystokinin: Role of ΔFosB

    Vincent Vialou;Rosemary C. Bagot;Michael E. Cahill;Deveroux Ferguson

  • Epigenetic Mechanisms of Depression and Antidepressant Action

    Vincent Vialou;Jian Feng;Alfred J. Robison;Eric J. Nestler

  • Epigenetic mechanisms of drug addiction.

    Jian Feng;Eric J Nestler

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Zhen Yan
Zhen Yan University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Li Shen
Li Shen Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Deveroux Ferguson
Deveroux Ferguson University of Arizona
Vincent Vialou
Vincent Vialou Sorbonne University
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Ja Wook Koo
Ja Wook Koo Korea Brain Research Institute
James N. Ihle
James N. Ihle St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison Michigan State University

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