Name: Jeff Ji
Year in Program: G1
Department: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan
Hometown: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Education: B.S & M.S in Pharmacology from McGill University, Montreal
Past Research Experience:
Graduate Student/Research Assistant, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec: I worked in Dr. Dusica Maysinger’s lab in the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics. My project was to investigate autophagy dysregulation and lipid droplet accumulation in pancreatic tissue from type-2 diabetic/obese donors and pancreatic beta-cells under metabolic stress. Other projects I was involved in include testing different nanoparticles as anti-inflammatory agents or as drug delivery vehicles.
Summer Research Student, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario: I worked in Dr. Rosanna Weksberg’s lab in Clinical and Metabolic Genetics. My project was to identify genetic and epigenetic markers associated with autism spectrum disorder.
Undergraduate Researcher Student, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec: I worked in Dr. Robert Murgita’s Lab in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. I assisted in the development of a software to accurately predict protein-protein interaction sites
Publications:
Moquin A, Sturn J, Zhang I, Ji J, et al (2019). Unraveling Aqueous Self-Assembly of Telodendrimers to Shed Light on Their Efficacy in Drug Encapsulation. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2(10), 4515-4526. PMID: 35021411
Ji J, Petropavlovskaia M, Khatchadourian A, Patapas J, et al (2019). Type 2 diabetes is associated with suppression of autophagy and lipid accumulation in β-cells. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 4, 2890-2900. PMID: 30710421
Ji J, Moquin A, Chang PYK, Antonine R, et al. (2019) Organotypic and primary neural cultures as models to assess effects of different gold nanostructures on glia and neurons. Nanotoxicology, 13(3), 285-304. PMID: 30691378
Moquin A, Ji J, Neibert K, Winnik FM, Maysinger D.(2018) Encapsulation and Delivery of Neurotrophic Proteins and Hydrophobic Agents Using PMOXA–PDMS–PMOXA Triblock Polymersomes. American Chemical Society Omega, 3(10), 13882-13893. PMID: 30411053
Maysinger D, Ji J, Moquin A, Shireen H, et al. (2017) Dendritic Polyglycerol Sulfates in the Prevention of Synaptic Loss and Mechanism of Action on Glia. American Chemical Society Chemical Neuroscience, 9(2), 260-271. PMID: 29078046
Maysinger D, Ji J. (2019) Nanostructured Modulators of Neuroglia. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 25(37), 3905-3916. PMID: 31512994
Maysinger D, Ji J, Hutter E, Cooper E. (2015) Nanoparticle-Based and Bioengineered Probes and Sensors to Detect Physiological and Pathological Biomarkers in Neural Cells. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, 480. PMID: 26733793
Current Research Interest: stroke, neuroscience, lipidomics, transcriptomics
Current Medical Interest: neurology, vascular surgery, internal medicine
Career Goal: to be a practicing physician that can bridge the gap between new basic science research and translational medicine
What makes you unique? I enjoy figure & portrait drawing.