Jun Wang, PhD

Dr. Jun Wang is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston). She received her PhD degree from the Texas A&M University Health Science Center in 2010. After completing postdoctoral training at Baylor College of Medicine and serving as an Assistant Professor there, Dr. Wang joined the UTHealth Houston faculty in 2018. Her lab’s research is primarily focused on the molecular and genetic regulation of cardiovascular and craniofacial development, diseases, and regeneration. Her group uses a combination of various experimental approaches including mouse genetics, physiology studies, genome editing, and next-generation sequencing techniques. She has received many honors and awards during her career such as the Lawrence Bone Research Award, an American Heart Association National Career Development Award, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K01 Award, The University of Texas System Rising STARs Award, and the McGovern Medical School’s Women Faculty Forum Rising Star Award.

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Education

  • Postgraduate:

    Texas A&M Health Science Center (PhD)

  • Fellowships:

    Baylor College of Medicine

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Publications

Zheng, M., Erhardt, S., Cao, Y. et al. (2023). Emerging signaling regulation of sinoatrial node dysfunction. Curr Cardiol Rep 25, 621–630. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-023-01885-8.
Liao, Y., Xiang, Y., Zheng, M. et al. (2023). DeepMiceTL: a deep transfer learning based prediction of mice cardiac conduction diseases using early electrocardiograms. Brief Bioinform 24, bbad109. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbad109.
Zhong, Y., Tang, K., Nattel, S. et al. (2023). Myosin light-chain 4 gene-transfer attenuates atrial fibrosis while correcting autophagic flux dysregulation. Redox Biol 60, 102606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2023.102606.
Erhardt, S. and Wang, J. (2022). Cardiac Neural Crest and Cardiac Regeneration. Cells 12, 111. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12010111.
Zheng, M., Li, R. G., Song, J. et al. (2022). Hippo-Yap signaling maintains sinoatrial node homeostasis. Circulation 146, 1694–1711. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.058777.
Zhao, X., Tang, L., Le, T. P. et al. (2022). Yap and Taz promote osteogenesis and prevent chondrogenesis in neural crest cells in vitro and in vivo. Sci Signal 15, eabn9009. https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.abn9009.
Ding, Y., Lang, D., Yan, J. et al. (2022). A phenotype-based forward genetic screen identifies Dnajb6 as a sick sinus syndrome gene. Elife 11, e77327. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77327.
Martínez Traverso, I. M., Steimle, J. D., Zhao, X. et al. (2022). LATS1/2 control TGFB-directed epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in the murine dorsal cranial neuroepithelium through YAP regulation. Development 149, dev200860. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200860.
Hill, M. C., Kadow, Z. A., Long, H. et al. (2022). Integrated multi-omic characterization of congenital heart disease. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04989-3.
Tang, L., Zhong, Z., Lin, Y. et al. (2022). EPIXplorer: A web server for prediction, analysis and visualization of enhancer-promoter interactions. Nucleic Acids Res, gkac397. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac397.