Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
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Education
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, B.S., M.S., 1980, Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, M.D., Ph.D., 1988, Medicine/Molecular Biology
Professional Experience
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1980-1982, 1987-1988
Medical Student, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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1982-1987
Graduate Student (Thomas J. Kelly), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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1988
Postdoctoral Fellow,Yeast Genetics (Phil Hieter), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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1989-1993
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yeast Genetics/Molecular Biology (Ira Herskowitz), Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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1993-2000
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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2000-present
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Honors & Awards
- 1977
United States Presidential Scholar - 1979
Phi Beta Kappa - 1979-1980
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow - 1987
Michael A. Shanoff Research Award for Ph.D. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - 1989-1990
Squibb Fellow, Life Sciences Research Foundation - 1990-1997
Markey Scholar Award - 1994-1999
Rita Allen Scholar - 1995-1998
Searle Scholar - 1998
Distinction in Teaching Award, UCSF
Selected Publications
- Finn KJ, Li JJ. Single-stranded annealing induced by re-initiation of replication origins provides a novel and efficient mechanism for generating copy number expansion via non-allelic homologous recombination. PLoS Genet. 2013; 9(1):e1003192.
View on PubMed - Green BM, Finn KJ, Li JJ. Loss of DNA replication control is a potent inducer of gene amplification. Science. 2010 Aug 20; 329(5994):943-6.
View on PubMed - Moses AM, Liku ME, Li JJ, Durbin R. Regulatory evolution in proteins by turnover and lineage-specific changes of cyclin-dependent kinase consensus sites. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Nov 6; 104(45):17713-8.
View on PubMed - Green BM, Morreale RJ, Ozaydin B, Derisi JL, Li JJ. Genome-wide mapping of DNA synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals that mechanisms preventing reinitiation of DNA replication are not redundant. Mol Biol Cell. 2006 May; 17(5):2401-14.
View on PubMed - Liku ME, Nguyen VQ, Rosales AW, Irie K, Li JJ. CDK phosphorylation of a novel NLS-NES module distributed between two subunits of the Mcm2-7 complex prevents chromosomal rereplication. Mol Biol Cell. 2005 Oct; 16(10):5026-39.
View on PubMed - Green BM, Li JJ. Loss of rereplication control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae results in extensive DNA damage. Mol Biol Cell. 2005 Jan; 16(1):421-32.
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