ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR

Weizhi obtained his PhD in Anatomy, Histology, and Embryology with Dr. Hongquan Zhang at Peking University, where he studied the role of transcription factor acylation in lung adenocarcinoma. He then completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Guo-Min Li at UTSW, where he studied mismatch repair-mediated DNA damage response.

Weizhi joined the Banaszynski and Solmonson Labs in 2024. He is interested in the role that metabolism plays in developmental genome regulation.

Key Publications
Global profiling of crotonylation on non-histone proteins
Xu W*, Wan J*, Zhan J, Li X, He H, Shi Z, Zhang H. (2017) Cell Res. 27, 946-949. *These authors contributed equally. [paper]

PCAF-mediated acetylation of transcriptional factor HOXB9 suppresses lung adenocarcinoma progression by targeting oncogenic protein JMJD6
Wan J*, Xu W*, Zhan J, Ma J, Li X, Xie Y, Wang J, Zhu WG, Luo J, Zhang H. (2016) Nucleic Acids Res. 44, 10662-10675. *These authors contributed equally. [paper]