Current Professional Societies

1. Member of the American Society for Cell Biology

2. Member of the Association for Women in Science

Research Areas

1. Crosstalk between the secretory and autophagy pathways

2. Stress and human diseases

Honors

1. Beijing Specially Recruited Experts, 2016

2. Beijing High-caliber Talent from Overseas, 2016

Publications

1. Yuting Li, Xuechai Chen, Qianqian Xiong, Yong Chen, Hongyu Zhao, Muhammad Tahir, Jingdong Song, Bing Zhou, Juan Wang. (2020) Casein Kinase 1 Family Member CK1δ/Hrr25 Is Required for Autophagosome Completion. Front Cell Dev Biol. 8:460.

2. Xuechai Chen, Chunyu Yu, Minjun Guo, Xiaotong Zheng, Sakhawat Ali, Hua Huang, Lihua Zhang, Shensen Wang, Yinghui Huang, Shuyan Qie, Juan Wang. (2019) Down-Regulation of m6A mRNA Methylation Is Involved in Dopaminergic Neuronal Death. ACS Chem Neurosci. 10(5):2355-2363.

3. Juan Wang, Saralin Davis, Ming Zhu, Elizabeth A Miller, Susan Ferro-Novick. (2017) Autophagosome formation: where the secretory and autophagy pathways meet. Autophagy. 13(5):973-974.

4. Juan Wang, Saralin Davis, Shekar Menon, Jinzhong Zhang, Jingzhen Ding, Serena Cervantes, Elizabeth Miller, Yu Jiang, Susan Ferro-Novick. (2015) Ypt1/Rab1 regulates Hrr25/CKIδ kinase activity in ER-Golgitraffic and macroautophagy. J Cell Biol. 210 (2): 273-285.

5. Juan Wang, Dongyan Tan, Yiying Cai, Karin M Reinisch, Thomas Walz, and Susan Ferro-Novick. (2014) A requirement for ER-derived COPII vesicles in phagophore initiation. Autophagy. 10(4):708-709.

6. Juan Wang, Shekar Menon, Akinori Yamasaki, Hui-Ting Chou, Thomas Walz, Yu Jiang, and Susan Ferro-Novick. (2013) Ypt1 recruits the Atg1kinase to the preautophagosomal structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.110(24):9800-9805.

7. Saralin Davis, Juan Wang, Susan Ferro-Novick. (2017) Crosstalk between the Secretary and Autophagy Pathways Regulates Autophagosome Formation. Dev Cell.41(1):23-32.

8. Saralin Davis, Juan Wang, Ming Zhu, Kyle Stahmer, Ramya Lakshminarayan, MajidGhassemian, Yu Jiang, Elizabeth A Miller, Susan Ferro-Novick. (2016) Sec24phosphorylation regulates autophagosome abundance during nutrient deprivation. Elife. 5: e21167.

9. Dongyan Tan, Yiying Cai, Juan Wang, Jinzhong Zhang, Shekar Menon, Hui-Ting Chou, Susan Ferro-Novick, Karin M. Reinisch, and Thomas Walz. (2013) The EM structure of the TRAPP III complex leads to the identification of a requirement for COPII vesicles on the macroautophagy pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 110(48):19432-19437.

Personal statement

Wang Juan is an associate professor of the College of Life Science and Bioengineering at Beijing University of Technology. She received her B.S. degree in biotechnology from Shandong University and her Ph.D. degree in biology from Tsinghua University. She started postdoctoral training in 2010 at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego, and was recruited to Beijing University of Technology in 2016 through Beijing Overseas Talent Pooling Program. Her research focuses on the crosstalk between the secretory and autophagy pathways. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in journals or book chapters. Dr. Wang is a member of the American Society for Cell Biology and the Association for Women in Science and the guest speaker at the FASEB Summer Research Conference, the 1st National Congress of Autophagy and the 1st International Conference on Autophagy and Liver Disease.