Junzhan Jing, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

Email

junzhan.jing@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor: Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Postdoctoral Associate: Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Addresses

Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Office): Room 0925
Houston, TX, 77030
United States

Education

PhD from School of Life Sciences, Peking University: 07/2016 - Beijing, China; Neuroscience

BS from School of Life Sciences, Hebei University: 06/2010 - Baoding, Hebei, China; Biology

Professional Interests

Decipher the Building Blocks of Mouse Hippocampus CA1
Decipher Neuronal Types in Mouse Cochlear Nucleus
Identify "Seizure-Causing" Cell Type in Surgically Resected Tissue from Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Tuberous Sclerosis Patients
Von Economo Neurons in Monkey Anterior Insular Cortex
Microcircuit Deficiency in Single Gene Mutation Neurological Disorder

Websites

Google Scholar

Selected Publications

Junzhan Jing, Ming Hu, Tenzin Ngodup, Qianqian Ma, Shu Ning Natalie Lau, Cecilia Ljungberg, Matthew J. McGinley, Laurence O. Trussell, Xiaolong Jiang. " Molecular logic for cellular specializations that initiate the auditory parallel processing pathways " Nature communications. 2025 Jan 9; 16 (1) : 489.
Junzhan Jing, Corrinne Dunbar, Alina Sonesra, Ana Chavez, Suhyeorn Park, Ryan Yang, Heun Soh, Maxwell Lee, Anastasios V Tzingounis, Edward C Cooper, Xiaolong Jiang, Atul Maheshwari. " Removal of KCNQ2 from parvalbumin-expressing interneurons improves anti-seizure efficacy of retigabine " Experimental Neurology. 2022 Sep ; 355 : 114141.
Pubmed PMID: 35691372.
Xiang Li*, Xiaohan Zuo*, Junzhan Jing*, Yantao Ma, Jiaming Wang, Defang Liu, Jialiang Zhu, Xiaomin Du, Liang Xiong, Yuanyuan Du, Jun Xu, Xiong Xiao, Jinlin Wang, Zhen Chai, Yang Zhao, Hongkui Deng. " Small-molecule-driven direct reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts into functional neurons " Cell stem cell. 2017 Aug 5; 17 (2) : 195-203.
Pubmed PMID: 26253201.
Xiang Li*, Defang Liu*, Yantao Ma*, Xiaomin Du*, Junzhan Jing*, Lipeng Wang, Bingqing Xie, Da Sun, Shaoqiang Sun, Xu Zhang, Ting Zhao, Jingyang Guan, Zexuan Yi, Weifeng Lai, Ping Zheng, Zhuo Huang, Yanzhong Chang, Zhen Chai, Jun Xu, Hongkui Deng. " Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts via a chemically induced XEN-like state " Cell stem cell. 2017 Aug 3; 21 (2) : 264-273. e7.
Pubmed PMID: 28648365.
Lingjie He, Matthew S Caudill, Junzhan Jing, Wei Wang, Yaling Sun, Jianrong Tang, Xiaolong Jiang, Huda Y Zoghbi. " A weakened recurrent circuit in the hippocampus of Rett syndrome mice disrupts long-term memory representations " Neuron. 2022 May 18; 110 (10) : 1689-1699.e6.
Pubmed PMID: 35290792.

Skills

Electrophysiology

Single-cell RNA sequencing

Confocal imaging

Molecular cloning, Western blotting & Real-time PCR

Neuronal culture