Chen, Jianguo

Department of Biology
Assoc. Professor,
Associate Professor & Director of Genomics & Sequencing Laboratory

Education

B.S.,  1982
Physics Northern Jiao-Tong University, Beijing, China

Ph.D., 1988
Biophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Post-Doc, 1988-1991
Molecular Biology, University of Chicago

Post-Doc, 1991-1993
Molecular Biology, University of California at San Francisco

Professional Employment

1993-1995 Senior Research Scientist, Biogenex, San Ramon, California
1995-2003 Senior Scientist, Applied Biosystems, Foster City California
2003-present Associate Professor, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC

Publications:

Chen, J.G., Chang, C.H., Govindjee, R., and Ebery, T.G. Bacteriorhodopsin’s purple color is partially due to
divalent cations. Biophysics Journal. Vol. 45, 214. 1984.

Chang. C.H., Chen, J.G., Govindjee, R., and Ebery, T.G. The role of cations on the photochemistry and
regeneration of bacteriorhodopsin. Biophysics Journal. Vol 47, 97. 1985.

Chang, C.H., Chen, J.G., Govindjee, R., and Ebrey, T.G. Cation binding by bacteriorhodopsi. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA. Vol. 82, 396. 1985.

Chen, J.G., Govindjee, R., Chang, C.H., and Ebery, T.G. Anti-bacteriorhodopsin polyclonal antibodies inhibit the
photo-reaction of bacteriorhodopsin and light induced proton uptake. Biophysics Journal. Vol. 49, 481.1986.

Chen, J.G., Nakamura, T., Ebrey, T.G., Odashima, K., Koono, K., Derguini, F., Nakanishi, K. and Honig., B. Wavelength
regulation of cone pigment, chicken rhodopsin. Biophysics Journal. Vol. 51, 267. 1987.

Chen, J.G., Ebrey, T.G., Odashima, K., Koono, K., Derquini, F., Nakanishi, K., and Honig, B. Wavelength regulation in cone pigment.
Biophysics Journal. Vol. 55, 725. 1989.

Chen, J.G., Nakamura, T., Matsumoto., H., and Ebrey, T.G. Monoclonal antibodies specific to chicken rodopsin.
Vision Research. Vol. 29, No. 10, 1267. 1989.

Brinson, E.C., Adriano, T., Chen, J., Kizorekk, R., Sherman, D., Tam, R., Woo, S., and Fung, S. Cystic fibrosis,
Multiplex DNA assay: a performance report from six test sites. Poster Presentation, 46th Annual Meeting, The American Society of Genetics, 1996.

Chadwick, R., Chen, J.G., and Kronik, M. An automated single lane multiple loci assay to determine microsatellite instability and loss of heterozygosity in parrifin tumor samples. Poster Presentation, American Association for Cancer Research, 1997.

Brinson, E.C., Adriano, T., Bloch, W., Brown, C.L., Chang, C.C., Chen, J., Eggerding, F.A., Grossman, P.,
Iovannisci, D.A., Madonik, A.M., Sherman, D.G., Tam, R.W., Winn-Deen, E.S., Woo, S.L., and Fung, S.
Introduction of PCR/OLA/SCS, a multiplex DNA test and its application to cystic fibrosis. Genetic Testing, Vol. 1, No.1, 1997.

Short, m., Chen, J., Devitt, A., Furtado, M., Brown, C. and the HIV Genotyping Team.
Construction of molecular infectious clones and vial panels with defined mixture composition to specity guideline
for editing mixed base positions during population swquencing of HIV-1. Poster Presentation, at XIV Interantional AIDS Conference. 2002.

Current Support

1P20CA096426 National Institutes of Health (NCRR BRIN Program), John Baynes, University of South Carolina. P.I. SC BRIN
Supplement Sub-Award for “Development of DNA Sequencing and Genotyping Laboratory at Claflin University” The objective is to establish a genomics and sequencing laboratory for use by Claflin University faculty and the faculty from the other five HBCUs in the state of South Carolina.