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Dr. Guohong Li is currently an investigator of Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China). Dr. Li received his undergraduate degree from Wuhan University and his Master of Science from Peking University Health Center in 1998 and his Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. Rer. Nat.) degree from Max-Planck Institute for Cell Biology/Heidelberg University in 2003. Dr. Li joined the Institute of Biophysics, CAS (Beijing) in 2010 as a CAS Hundred Talents Investigator. Dr. Li's group has been mainly focusing on studying the biological functions of higher-order chromatin structures, especially the 30-nm chromatin fiber, in epigenetic regulation of gene expression, as well as the underlying molecular mechanisms. In the past years, Dr. Li's group has performed systematical research works and has made significant progresses on the structure and function of 30-nm chromatin fiber, the structure and function of centromeric chromatin, and epigenetic regulation of chromatin dynamics during development and in diseases. Dr. Li have published more than 60 research articles in peer-reviewed journals including Science, Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, Genes & Development, and Cell Research etc. Dr. Li serves on editorial boards of Science China Life Sciences, Genome Biology and the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and was selected as an HHMI International Research Scholar in 2017.
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Li, G. The 3D organization of genome in the nucleus: from the nucleosome to the 4D nucleome. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 791–794 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1723-y
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