Education / Career
Ph. D in Genetic and Molecular Biology, Emory University (2016)
Post-doc in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill (2017-2022)

Publications

1. Xiaojian Xu, Diana Lee, Hung-Ying Shih, Sehee Seo, Jeong Ahn, and Myeongwoo Lee (2005), Linking integrin to IP3 signaling is important for ovulation in Caenorhabditis elegans, FEBS Letters (579), 549-553.
2. Myeongwoo Lee, Bing Shen, Jean E Schwarzbauer, Jeong Ahn, and John Kwon (2005), Connections between integrins and Rac GTPase pathways control gonad formation and function in C. elegans, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (1723), 248-255.
3. Xiaojian Xu, Jeong H Ahn, Phebe Tam, Eun Jeong Yu, Sushil Batra, Erin J Cram, and Myeongwoo Lee (2010), Analysis of conserved residues in the betapat-3 cytoplasmic tail reveals important functions of integrin in multiple tissues, Dev Dyn. (239), 763-772.
4. Elizabeth Anne Bowman, Christopher Ray Bowman, Jeong H. Ahn, and William G. Kelly (2013), Phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II is independent of P-TEFb in the C. elegans germline. Development (140), 3703-3713.
5. Jeong H. Ahn, Andreas Rechsteiner, Susan Strome, and William G. Kelly (2016), A Conserved Nuclear Cyclophilin Is Required for Both RNA Polymerase II Elongation and Co-transcriptional Splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Genet (12), e1006227.
6. Jie Li, Jeong Hyun Ahn, Gang Greg Wang (2019), Understanding histone H3 lysine 36 methylation and its deregulation in disease, Cellular and Molecular Life Science, doi: 10.1007/s00018-019-03144-y
7. Zhongqiang Qiu, Peter Sheesley, Jeong H. Ahn, Eun-Jeong Yu, and Myeongwoo Lee (2019), A Novel Mutation in an NPXY Motif of β Integrin Reveals Phenotypes Similar to him-4/hemicentin. Front. Cell Dev. Biol., doi: 10.3389/fcell.2019.00247
8. Zhihong Ren, Jeong Hyun Ahn, Hequn Liu, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Natarajan V. Bhanu, Brian Koss, David F. Allison, Anqi Ma, Aaron J. Storey, Ping Wang, Samuel G. Mackintosh, Ricky D. Edmondson, Richard W. J. Groen, Anton C. Martens, Benjamin A. Garcia, Alan J. Tackett, Jian Jin, Ling Cai, Deyou Zheng, and Gang Greg Wang (2019), PHF19 promotes multiple myeloma tumorigenicity through PRC2 activation and broad H3K27me3 domain formation, Blood(134), 1176-1189.
9. Brian Koss, Bradley D. Shields, Erin M. Taylor, Aaron J. Storey, Stephanie D. Byrum, Allen J. Gies, Charity L. Washam, Samrat Roy Choudhury, Jeong Hyun Ahn, Hidetaka Uryu, Jason B. Williams, Kimberly J. Krager, Tung-Chin Chiang, Samuel G. Mackintosh, Rick D. Edmondson, Nukhet Aykin-Burns, Thomas F. Gajewski, Gang Greg Wang, Alan J. Tackett (2020), Epigenetic Control of Cdkn2a.Arf Protects Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes from Metabolic Exhaustion, Cancer Res(80), 4707–4719.
10. Huitao Fan, Jiuwei Lu, Yiran Guo, Dongxu Li, Zhi-Min Zhang, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Wen-Chieh Pi, Jeong Hyun Ahn, Weida Gong, Yu Xiang, David F. Allison, Huimin Geng, Shenghui He, Yarui Diao, Wei-Yi Chen, Brian D. Strahl, Ling Cai, Jikui Song, and Gang Greg Wang(2020), BAHCC1 binds H3K27me3 via a conserved BAH module to mediate gene silencing and oncogenesis, Nat Genet (52), 1384–1396.
11. Jie Li, Phillip M. Galbo Jr., Weida Gong, Aaron J. Storey, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Xufen Yu, Jeong Hyun Ahn, Yiran Guo, Samuel G. Mackintosh, Ricky D. Edmondson, Stephanie D. Byrum, Jason E. Farrar, Shenghui He, Ling Cai, Jian Jin, Alan J. Tackett, Deyou Zheng, and Gang Greg Wang (2021), ZMYND11-MBTD1 induces leukemogenesis through hijacking NuA4/TIP60 acetyltransferase complex and a PWWP-mediated chromatin association mechanism, Nat Commun (12), 1045.
12. Jeong Hyun Ahn, Eric S. Davis, Timothy A. Daugird, Shuai Zhao, Ivana Yoseli Quiroga, Hidetaka Uryu, Jie Li, Aaron J. Storey, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Daniel P. Keeley, Samuel G. Mackintosh, Ricky D. Edmondson, Stephanie D. Byrum, Ling Cai, Alan J. Tackett, Deyou Zheng, Wesley R. Legant, Douglas H Phanstiel, and Gang Greg Wang (2021), Phase separation drives aberrant chromatin looping and cancer development, Nature (595), 591–595.
13. Ivana Y Quiroga, Jeong Hyun Ahn, Gang Greg Wang, and Douglas Phanstiel, Oncogenic fusion proteins and their role in three-dimensional chromatin structure, phase separation, and cancer (2022), Current Opinion in Genetics & Development (74), 101901.