Feng Jiang



Feng Jiang, PhD

Associate Professor @ Kang Lab (Dr. Le Kang)
Eco-genomics and Adapatation Group
Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101, China
Email: jiangf#biols.ac.cn


Tags: Epigenetics; Insect Genomics; Bioinformatics; Migratory locust; Histone modification; Open chromatin; Single-cell profiling; X0 sex-determination system

My research interests are in the understanding the epigenetic mechanism how phenotypic plasticity is regulated in response to population density in locusts using comparative genomic, bioinformatic, experimental and entomology approaches.

news

May 9, 2023 Our mosquito virome paper has been published in Microbiome. 🔥🔥🔥
Jan 6, 2022 Our piRNA paper has been published in EMBO Reports. 🔥🔥🔥
Mar 30, 2021 Our TSS paper has been published in BMC Biology. 🔥🔥🔥

selected publications

  1. Exceptionally high cumulative percentage of NUMTs originating from linear mitochondrial DNA molecules in the Hydra magnipapillata genome
    Song, Shen, Jiang, Feng, Yuan, Jianbo, Guo, Wei, and Miao, Yongwang
    BMC genomics, 2013
    Co-first author
  2. The locust genome provides insight into swarm formation and long-distance flight
    Wang, Xianhui, Fang, Xiaodong, Yang, Pengcheng, Jiang, Xuanting, Jiang, Feng, Zhao, Dejian, Li, Bolei, Cui, Feng, Wei, Jianing, Ma, Chuan, and others,
    Nature Communications, 2014
    Co-first author
  3. Comparative genomic analysis of SET domain family reveals the origin, expansion, and putative function of the arthropod-specific SmydA genes as histone modifiers in insects
    Jiang, Feng, Liu, Qing, Wang, Yanli, Zhang, Jie, Wang, Huimin, Song, Tianqi, Yang, Meiling, Wang, Xianhui, and Kang, Le
    GigaScience, 2017
  4. Long-read direct RNA sequencing by 5-Cap capturing reveals the impact of Piwi on the widespread exonization of transposable elements in locusts
    Jiang, Feng, Zhang, Jie, Liu, Qing, Liu, Xiang, Wang, Huimin, He, Jing, and Kang, Le
    RNA biology, 2019
  5. Transcription initiation of distant core promoters in a large-sized genome of an insect
    Liu, Qing, Jiang, Feng, Zhang, Jie, Li, Xiao, and Kang, Le
    BMC Biology, 2021
    Co-first author
  6. Piwi/piRNAs control food intake by promoting neuropeptide F expression in locusts
    Wang, Huimin, Jiang, Feng, Liu, Xiang, Liu, Qing, Fu, Yunyun, Li, Ran, Hou, Li, Zhang, Jie, He, Jing, and Kang, Le
    EMBO reports, 2022
    Co-first author
  7. Association of virome dynamics with mosquito species and environmental factors
    Liu, Qing, Cui, Feng, Liu, Xiang, Fu, Yumei, Fang, Wenjing, Kang, Xun, Lu, Hong, Li, Siping, Liu, Biao, Guo, Wei, Xia, Qiangfeng, Kang, Le, and Jiang, Feng
    Microbiome, 2023
    Corresponding author