Qiu-Xing Jiang
University of Florida, USA
Biography
Jiang obtained his PhD from Yale University and did his postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University. He is currently an Associate Professor in UF and serves as the Faculty Director of Electron Microscopy (EM) at the UF Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechology Research, where EM is used for revealing the structural basis of biological machineries. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals. His lab focuses on structural and functional studies of intracellular RNA-binding complexes and ion channels invovled in membrane excitability and regulated secretion, and has been developing new methods for cryoEM imaging of single molecules.
Abstract
Abstract : Symmetry ambiguity and its implications to the molecular functions of the MAVS prion-like filaments
