Expertise at Chang Gung System

Meir, Yaa-Jyuhn James ,Ph.D.
Institution: Chang gung university
Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Biomedical Sciences
Address: No.259, Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan County 333, Taiwan.
Tel: +886-3-211-8800 ext.3641
E-mail: jmeir@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Focus of Interest:
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – Medicine
  • Stem Cell
  • Tissue Engineering

Fulltime Employment:
  • August 2008 – present: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University.
  • August 2007-July 2008: Vice President of Research and Technology, Celgenomics, LLC.
  • August 2005-July 2007: Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Molecular Chaperone/Radiobiology and Cancer Virology, Medical College of Georgia.
  • July 2001-July 2005: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.

Education:
  • Ph.D, Vanderbilt University

Selected Main Publications:
  1. The FASEB Journal 27 (11), 4429-4443 (2013) Yaa-Jyuhn James Meir, Angelique Lin, Meng-Fan Huang, Matthew T. Weirauch, Hsiang-Chen Chou, Siang-Jin Ashley Lin, and Sareina Chiung-Yuan Wu.
  2. Current Biology 17(7), 592-8 (2007) Sakaguchi-Nakashima A., Yaa-Jyuhn James Meir, Yishi J., Matsumoto K., & Hisamoto N. LRK-1, a C. elegans PARK8-Related Kinase, Regulates Axonal-Dendritic Polarity of SV Proteins.
  3. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103(41), 15008-13 (2006). Wu SC*, Yaa-Jyuhn James Meir*, Coates CJ, Handler AM, Moisyadi S, Pelczar P, Kaminski JM (2006). piggyBac is a flexible and highly active transposon as compared to Sleeping Beauty, Tol2, and Mos1 in mammalian cells.
  4. Molecular Microbiology 60(2), 331-348 (2006). Bently Lim, Yaa-Jyuhn James Meir, and Fitnat Yildiz. Cyclic-di-GMP signal transduction system in Vibrio cholerae: Modulation of Rugosity and Biofilm formation.
  5. Genes and Development 13(21), 2774-2786 (1999). Angela R. Winnier*, Yaa-Jyuhn James Meir*, Jennifer M. Ross, Nektarios Tavernerakis, Monica Driscoll, Takeshi Ishihara, Isao Katsura, and David M. Miller, III. UNC-4/UNC-37-dependent repression of motor neuron-specific genes controls synaptic choice in Caenorhabditis elegans.


All Publications List

Board Certification:

  • Member of Taiwan Society For Stem Cell Research