Dr. Hong Ji is the Associate Professor of Anatomy Physiology & Cell Biology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Her research focuses on epigenetics, with an emphasis on understanding the etiology of pediatric lung disease. She is interested in the insight of epigenetic mechanisms underlying heterogeneous disease phenotypes and mediating the impact of environmental exposures.

Ji Lab investigates how epigenetic mechanisms regulate disease severity in childhood asthma and how diesel exhaust particles and other exposures modify the epigenome, leading to increased susceptibility to chronic common diseases.

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Positions at UC Davis

• Principal Investigator, Ji Lab
• Associate Professor, VM: Anatomy Physiology & Cell Biology
• Cardiorespiratory Diseases Unit Core Scientist, UC Davis CA National Primate Center

Area of Expertise

• Cellular Responses to Toxins and Stress
• Chromosome Biology
• Epigenomics
• Gene Regulation
• Molecular Genetics
• Molecular Medicine

Major Research Papers

Ji H, Brown AP, Henson SN, Haczku A The "epiTet" of air pollution: epigenetic regulation of airway inflammation by Tet1.

Zhu T, Brown AP, Cai LP, Quon G, Ji H^Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis Reveals Lung Epithelial Cell Type-Specific Responses to HDM and Regulation by Tet1

Brown AP, Cai L, Laufer BI, Miller LA, LaSalle JM, Ji H^Long-term effects of wildfire smoke exposure during early life on the nasal epigenome in rhesus macaques

Folger AT, Nidey N, Ding L, Ji H, Yolton K, Ammerman RT, Bowers K, Association Between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Neonatal SCG5 DNA Methylation-Effect Modification by Prenatal Home Visiting

Bowers K, Ding L, Ji H, Nidey N, Meyer J, Ammerman R, Ginkel JV, Folger A, Yolton K, Pregnancy and Infant Development (PRIDE) - a preliminary observational study of maternal adversity and infant development