Jun Ma is an Associate Professor at the Division of Developmental Biology,Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.He graduated from Peking University in 1982,majoring in Biology.He did his graduate work with Mark Ptashne at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Harvard University,and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows between 1989-1992.He spent the summer of 1988 in the laboratory of Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen to collaborate with Wolfgang Driever.He joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1992 and has remained there since.Currently he also has a collaborative base at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.His earlier work on the yeast activator GAL4 helped pave the way to the development of the yeast two-hybrid system.His current research focuses on the mechanisms of transcript on control and development in Drosophila.
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