Falong Lu, Ph.D.

Investigator, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology

Dr. Lu is currently an investigator and a group leader in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, studying the mechanism of gene expression changes that do not involves changes to the underlying DNA sequences. He obtained his BS from Peking University in 2004 studying life sciences, his Ph.D. from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology under the supervision of Dr. Xiaofeng Cao in 2011. He then did his post-doctoral training from 2012 to 2017 in Yi Zhang’s lab in Boston Children’s Hospital, where he studied the programming and reprogramming of the chromatin during the transition from germ cells to the pre-implantation embryos. He joined Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology in 2017 as a research group leader. Now the group mainly focused on the epigenetic regulation of gene expression, the mechanism of zygotic genome activation in mammals, and the epigenetic mechanism underlying cell fate determination.