Faculty Mentor

Professor Jia Fei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from ETH-Zurich and the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Jim Kadonaga at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His lab at Rutgers studies the regulation of chromatin transcription by RNA polymerase II, focusing on the impact of chromatin modifications and epigenetics mechanisms on gene expression. The multidisciplinary approach his lab uses includes purified and defined biochemical systems, cell-based imaging, next-generation sequencing (NGS), bioinformatics and other genome-wide techniques. These studies will increase the breadth and depth of our understanding of the regulation of eukaryotic transcription through chromatin, which holds key implications for a broad understanding of health and disease.