CHUN LI, PH.D.

Assistant Director for Education

Chun Li, Ph.D. is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.  He has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in sta­tis­ti­cal genet­ics research and genetic data analy­sis.  He is cur­rently work­ing on devel­op­ing meth­ods for detect­ing somatic changes using next-generation sequenc­ing data.  He is also inter­ested in devel­op­ing meth­ods to effi­ciently mine elec­tronic med­ical records.  Active in col­lab­o­ra­tive research, he has been work­ing with inves­ti­ga­tors in var­i­ous fields such as can­cer epi­demi­ol­ogy, clin­i­cal phar­ma­col­ogy, oph­thal­mol­ogy, car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, autism, type 2 dia­betes, etc.  He has pub­lished in Nature Genet­ics, New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine, Blood, Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Human Genet­ics, Bioinformatics, etc.

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Recent Publications

  1. Chun, EK, Djerdjaj, A, Matulis, T, Ng, AJ, Rogers-Carter, MM, Christianson, JP. Insular input to the prelimbic cortex underlies social affective behavior in rats. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41256710 PubMed Central PMC12621744.
  2. Chun, J, Tripathi, P, Flores-Garcia, Y, Madan, B, Lee, GA, Fahad, AS, Lei, H, Teng, IT, Hurlburt, NK, Flynn, BJ et al.. Anti-Malaria Antibody Engineering Broadens Recognition Motifs and Reveals New Homotypic Interactions that Enhance Protective Breadth. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41256528 PubMed Central PMC12621802.
  3. Shahnaee, A, Liu, CS, Ngo, T, Palmer, CR, Ziomek, D, Park, C, Tan, VP, Jimenez, NL, Chun, J. RNA isoform diversity, splicing variants, and switching in single cells of the Alzheimer's disease brain. Res Sq 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41255979 PubMed Central PMC12622169.
  4. Shin, JH, Kim, JY, Kim, MJ, Kang, Y, Lee, HJ, Choi, B, Lee, JS, Kwon, D, Kim, SH, Sung, Y et al.. PYCR1 drives lung cancer progression through functional interactions with EGFR and TLR signaling pathways. Exp Mol Med 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41254241 .
  5. Guo, J, Chu, L, Ye, X, King, WL, Shao, J, Wang, Z, Liu, J, Chen, C, Yu, M. Low soil phosphorus and high symbiotic fungal richness inhibits plant aboveground biomass in fragmented forests in China. Commun Biol 2025; 8 (1): 1598. PubMed PMID:41254159 .
  6. Lin, YN, Hsu, YC, Wang, W, Yang, FL, Tu, YH, Wu, CC, Chia, SL, Lee, CH, Chin, YH, Chen, HH et al.. Plasma vitamin D levels in obese individuals with peptic ulcer disease from NAHSIT databank of Taiwan. Sci Rep 2025; 15 (1): 40513. PubMed PMID:41253959 .
  7. Wang, P, Wang, Z, Feng, F, Yin, L, Zhang, Y, Gao, Z, Chen, J, Zhang, P, Yuan, S, Ding, Q et al.. UHRF1 restricts HCoV-229E infection through epigenetic silencing of the viral receptor APN. Nat Commun 2025; 16 (1): 10085. PubMed PMID:41253770 .
  8. Zheng, W, Chen, J, Guo, Y, Zhang, X, Chun, F, Cao, Y, Gao, X, Suo, H, Wei, X, Xing, Z et al.. Pb deficiency enables the synthesis of CsPbI3 nanosheets with tunable thickness down to two octahedral layers. Nat Commun 2025; 16 (1): 10078. PubMed PMID:41253769 .
  9. Gao, L, Wang, H, Chen, Y, Chen, Z, Deng, L, Liu, D, Ding, X, Le, Z, Liu, Y, Du, Y et al.. Integrative analysis of single-neuron projectomes links connectome, transcriptome, and function in the mouse cortex. Neuron 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41253150 .
  10. Do, VT, Bappy, MI, Van Vu, H, Van Nhu, H, Chun, DM. Facile fabrication of a durable polydimethylsiloxane-silica-coated aluminum mesh with superhydrophobic behavior for efficient oil-water separation. Mar Pollut Bull 2025; 223 : 118977. PubMed PMID:41253005 .
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