The review I wrote, "RNA m6A modification, signals for degradation or stabilisation?" has been accepted for pubcation by Biochemical Society Transactions. @2024.04.08

I am going to present my work at Cambridge RNA Club. @2024.02.22

I am going to present my work at Norwich RNA Club. @2024.02.21

I am going to attend RNA UK 2024 meeting and give an oral presentation at the Lake District UK. @2024.01.25-28

It's really unfortunate to me that I have not obtained a Canadian visitor visa yet for attending Keystone Symposium for RNA Modifications in Health and Disease, despite that I submitted the application 2.5 months ago.  It's also a pity to miss the opportunity of an oral presentation. @2023.12.08

I am going to present my work on m6A and Xist RNA degradation, at CRBG seminar, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. @2023.12.07

I am going to teach the Oxford DTC students epigenetics, part of Cells and Systems, this fall. @2023.11.06

I am going to visit several labs in Glasgow/Edinburgh in the week starting 30th Oct. @2023.10.30-2023.11.04

I am going to supervise a undergraduate summer student, together with my colleague, for some molecular biology experiments. @2023.07.10

I will attend the EMBO workshop (X-chromosome inactivation: New insights on its 60th anniversary) in Berlin Germany, and give a oral presentation. @2023.06.19-23

I am going to present my work on m6A and Xist, at CRBG seminar, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. @2022.12.08

I am attending EMBO workshop at Brasenose college Oxford, "RNA 3' end formation and the regulation of eukaryotic genomes". @2022.09.19-23

I am going to supervise a undergraduate summer student who is studying biochemistry in University of Cambridge. @2022.07.18

I am going to visit Living Systems Institute (LSI) at the University of Exeter, and give a seminar about my research. @2022.05.09

I am going to attend interdepartmental postdoc poster session and present my research, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. @2022.04.26

Joe's paper about the additive silencing role of SPEN, Polycomb pathway, and SMCHD1 in X chromosome silencing is accepted by Cell Reports. @2022.03.16

I am going to attend EMBO workshop: the epitranscriptome, and give a poster presentation. @2022.02.09-11

Congrats to Joe! His new manuscript appears in BioRxiv talking about the additive roles of SPEN, Polycomb, and SMCHD1 in Xist-mediated chromosome silenicng. @2021.11.03

I am awarded by the Medical Sciences Internal Fund: Pump Priming (£10,000) from the University of Oxford, in order to obtain pilot data for external funding application in future. @2021.09.22

I am going to give a virtual seminar about Chromosome Silencing by Xist RNA and gene regulation by RNA m6A modification to Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh, UK. @2021.09.16

Congrats to the Reinke lab in Yale University on publication of the new paper about the regulatory role of OEF-1 in C. elegans. @2021.09.14

It's my great honor to be invited to present my work at Runsheng Chen's 80th Birthday Symposium, Suzhou, China. @2021.06.18

Through a long review process, my nascent m6A and splicing has been accpeted in principle by Genome Research. @2021.05.25

Our letter published in Developmental Cell, argues that Xist Repeats B and C, but not Repeat A, mediate de novo polycomb recruitment to the inactive X chromosome. @2021.05.03

I am going to give a virtual seminar about gene regulation by RNA m6A modification to MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS), London, UK. @2021.04.27

Massive congrats to Lisa! The paper using RNA-SPLIT techonology to image Xist RNA behaviour is accepted in principle by Science! @2020.04.21

Very happy that I am a recipient of Associate Faculty member Travel Grant for the Genomics & Genetics Faculty from faculty opinions. @2021.01.29

Lisa's Xist RNA super-resolution imaging paper is on BioRxiv now. @2020.11.26

The paper about PWWP2A HDAC complex repressing the intragenic transcription initation is finally accepted by iScience. @2020.10.23

I will attend the virtual keystone symposia, RNA editing and modifications, from biology to therapy. Not only get the scholarship, but also the opportunity to give a live zoom presentation. @2020.09.30-10.02

My nascent m6A and splicing preprint is now on BioRxiv. @2020.09.11

After a long while (few years) 's submissions, rejections, and revisions,  my previous colleague Dan Wang's PhD work about lncRNA in DNA repair has been accepted in Cell Death and Differentiation. @2020.06.09

I am going to do our labs' journal club, presenting the current application of CRISPR-Cas on SARS-COV-2, which threats the globe. @2020.04.29

The review Neil and I wrote about "chromosome silencing by Xist RNA" is accepted by Genes and Development. @2020.04.01

Heather's paper about Xist m6A is online in Wellcome Open Research. @2020.02.17

My two papers, Bc-repeat of Xist recruits Polycomb complex through hnRNPK, Comparison of silencing pathway contribution, are recommended by F1000.  @2020.01.30

I am going to visit my Ph.D institute and give a talk there, Institute of Biophyscis, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. @2020.01.08

I am going to visit the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences CAMS and give a talk there. @2020.01.07

I am going to present my work at CRBG seminar, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford. @2019.11.07

I am going to present our silencing paper at the RNA and transcription club, Sir William Dunn School of pathology, University Of Oxford. @2019.06.24

Our silencing paper, in which we performed systematic comparison of key silencing factors/pathways and the elements they bind in XCI, is accepted by Nature Comms. @2019.06.19

The project with Mei Han in Yale University, in which she isolates C. elegans germ nuclei for genomic analysis, is published in BMC Genomics. @2019.06.17

I am going to visit Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. @2019.06.04-06

I am going to attend Cold Spring Harbor Conference RNA Control & Regulation, and present my poster in NY USA. During this travel, I will aslo visit Columbia University and discuss science (RNA) with my friends there. @2019.05.29-06.03

I am going to present my poster about our study of silencing factors in XCI at the interdepartmental postdoc poster session, Oxford University. @2019.05.16 Luckily, I got one of the best poster presentation prizes.

I am going to share my knowledge and thoughts about epigenetics in the Oxford Chinese Science Club. @2019.04.26

Neil appointed me as his associate faculty member for F1000. @2019.03.27

I am going to attend the keystone symposium Long Noncoding RNA and present the poster in Whistler, BC, Canada. @2019.02.24-28

I am going to visit Prof. Yong Zhang's lab and give a talk, at the school of life science and technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. @2019.02.21

Heather's review, "m6A modification of non-coding RNA and the control of mammalian gene expression" is accepted by BBA-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. @2018.12.07

Our silencing paper, in which we systematically analysed the relative contributions for key silencing factors and the elements they bind in XCI, is out in bioRxiv. @2018.11.24 

Although I received many rejections from scientific journals, I am never ever defeated because that rejection is part of life and will enhance my ability towards research. @2018.11.04

In the upcoming CRBG, I am going to present my research towards understanding the silencing determinants of X chromosome inactivation, at the main seminar room of New biochemistry building, Oxford. @2018.10.18

The scientific computing training workshop will be organized by my colleague, Michal Gdula. I am gonna be there as a helper. @2018.10.17

I am going to teach the Oxford fresh DPhil students epigenetics, part of Cells and Systems. @2018.10.15 

Tianyi and me, are going to visit prof. John Schwabe group, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. @2018.09.25

My friend, colleague and collaborator biochemist, Tianyi, is going to start her postdoc career at Imperial College London, best wishes! @2018.07.30

Massive Congrats to Neil (my postdoc supervisor) on his election as Fellow of Royal Society, we are going to celebrate this great achievement. @2018.7.21

Through 3 round of revisions during the past 8 months, the paper in which we (Tianyi and me) discovered the new complex, PWWP2A/B-NuRD, is accepted in principle by Nature Communications. Today is summer solstice! @2018.06.21

My friend, colleague and collaborator cell biologist, Greta, is going to start her postdoc career at Harvard University, best wishes! @2018.06.01

I am going to attend the keystone symposium, DNA and RNA methylation, in Vancouver, Canada, and present my research there. @2018.01.21-25

The talk about allelic analysis for Xist-mediated chromosome inactivation will be given at NGS-SIG, WIMM, Oxford. @2017.12.07 

I love the starry sky and enjoy the moon night, particularly in my hometown and Oxford, and I don't want to miss the beautiful times in Oxford, peaceful countryside. Therefore, I bought a telescope (Celestron)!! @2017.11.16 

This busy week ended by the great news that the paper "hnRNPK recruits PCGF3/5-PRC1 to the Xist RNA B-repeat to establish Polycomb mediated chromosomal silencing" done by Greta and me, as well as co-authors, is finally accepted by Molecular Cell. @2017.11.10

I am attending EMBO workshop, "Regulation of RNA 3' end formation across eukaryotic genomes" at Pembroke College, Oxford. @2017.09.21-23

I am going to The Francis Crick Institute, London, for attending a symposium on methods for studying RNA-Protein interactions. @2017.07.14

Big Congrats to Yu Sun (my former colleague from Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing). Her Ph.D. work was accepted by Oncogene.  We investigate the functional roles of SNHG1 in cancer model, which can act oncogenic roles in the context of regulating transcription of both local and distal genes.  Good Luck with your future! @2017.07.08

Congratulations to Mei Han, postdoc at Yale University, her work on B0035.1 (bugz-1) in C. elegans is finally accepted in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. Collaboration long time ago. @2017.04.20

My Google site is established. @ 2017.01.01