Dr. Lin Deng has a long-standing interest in cell cycle regulation and genome instability. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College in U.S., supervised by Dr. James Moseley. His Ph.D. work dissected the signaling pathways for G2/M transition and discovered many novel factors and sub-cellular structures that regulate cell growth and division. Dr. Deng received his postdoc training at Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, jointly supervised by Dr. David Pellman and Joahnnes Walter. His postdoc research revealed novel mechanisms of genome instability induced by DNA replication stress and cell cycle defects.

Dr. Deng’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as  Molecular Cell, Current Biology, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and so forth. These works have been recognized by several awards including The International Youth Friend of Shenzhen, China (2017), E. Lucile Smith Award for Excellence in Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School (2015), Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad (2014), and John H. Copenhaver, Jr. and William H. Thomas, MD 1952 Fellow, Dartmouth College (2014).

Mechanism of genome instability caused by premature mitosis