Feng Jie Jin is a molecular biologist whose research has focused on the genetics, chromosome engineering, cellular biology, and industrial applications of Aspergillus oryzae. His work has contributed to transformation systems, large-scale chromosomal deletion, conidiation regulation, heterologous protein production, and genome-editing technologies for koji mold and other fungi.
Background
Feng Jie Jin is the daughter of Shengzhi Jin and Chunxian Jin. Her research career has connected Japan and China, with documented scientific appointments at Gunma University, the Noda Institute for Scientific Research, the University of Tokyo, and Nanjing Forestry University.
Education
Jin completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo in 2005. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research was associated with biotechnology and molecular studies of Aspergillus oryzae, including genetic transformation, chromosome engineering, and heterologous protein production.
Career
Jin began her documented research career as a Council of Europe research fellow at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Regulation of Gunma University in Maebashi, Japan, from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Noda Institute for Scientific Research in Japan, where her work addressed chromosome engineering, gene disruption, developmental regulation, transposable elements, and cellular processes in Aspergillus oryzae. Her publications from this period examined transformation systems, large chromosomal deletions, conidiation pathways, Woronin-body formation, retrotransposable elements, and enhanced production of heterologous proteins. Jin later became affiliated with Nanjing Forestry University in China, where she has continued research on fungal molecular biology, Aspergillus genome editing, industrial enzyme production, lignocellulose-degrading microorganisms, microbial ecology, and the use of fungi in biotechnology. She has also co-authored research on CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, genetic engineering of A. oryzae, fungal carbohydrate metabolism, and microbial communities associated with forest ecosystems.
Achievements
Research on chromosome engineering and large-scale chromosomal deletion techniques in Aspergillus oryzae.
Development and application of genetic transformation systems for Aspergillus oryzae.
Research on genetic regulation of conidiation, development, carbohydrate metabolism, and heterologous protein production in Aspergillus oryzae.
Research on fungal genome editing and industrial biotechnology applications of Aspergillus species.
(Co-authored review of CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing methods ...)
2022
Membership
Jin is a member of the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. Her professional work has also involved research collaboration with the Noda Institute for Scientific Research, the University of Tokyo, Gunma University, and Nanjing Forestry University.
Professional member.
Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry
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Japan
Postdoctoral research fellow and research collaborator.
Noda Institute for Scientific Research
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Japan
2006
Connections
Jin is the daughter of Shengzhi Jin and Chunxian Jin and is married to Hai Ying Qin. Her professional connections include collaborators in fungal genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology, and microbial ecology in Japan and China.