EMPLOYMENT

2021.11 - present. Principal Investigator, The Greater Bay Area Institute of Precision Medicine (Guangzhou), Fudan University, China

2016 - 2021. Postdoctoral Fellow. Jacob Kitzman Lab, University of Michigan, USA

2014 - 2015. Postdoctoral Associate. James Westwood Lab, Virginia Tech, USA

EDUCATION

2008 - 2013 Graduate student. Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech. Mentors: Dr. Eric Beers and Dr. Amy Brunner

2004 - 2008 Undergraduate. Department of Food Science and Engineering, China Agricultural University

2021, C.W Cotterman Award

2021, Charles J. Epstein Award Finalist

2020, Keystone Symposia Scholarship

2019, Outstanding Speaker Award, Gordon Research Conference, Human Genetics and Genomics

2018, Inaugural Precision Health Scholarship (PI: Jia)

2017, Reviewer’s Choice Award, American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting

Jia, Xiaoyan, Bala Bharathi Burugula, Victor Chen, Rosemary M. Lemons, Sajini Jayakody, Mariam Maksutova, and Jacob O. Kitzman. 2020. “Massively Parallel Functional Testing of MSH2 Missense Variants Conferring Lynch Syndrome Risk.” American Journal of Human Genetics 108(1):163-175.

Clarke, Christopher R., So-Yon Park, Robert Tuosto, Xiaoyan Jia, Amanda Yoder, Jennifer Van Mullekom, and James Westwood. 2020. “Multiple Immunity-Related Genes Control Susceptibility of Arabidopsis Thaliana to the Parasitic Weed Phelipanche Aegyptiaca.” PeerJ 8 (June): e9268.

Petzold, H. Earl, Stephen B. Rigoulot, Chengsong Zhao, Bidisha Chanda, Xiaoyan Sheng, Mingzhe Zhao, Xiaoyan Jia, Allan W. Dickerman, Eric P. Beers, and Amy M. Brunner. 2018. “Identification of New Protein–protein and protein–DNA Interactions Linked with Wood Formation in Populus Trichocarpa.” Tree Physiology 38 (3): 362–77.

Jia, Xiaoyan, Bidisha Chanda, Mingzhe Zhao, Amy M. Brunner, and Eric P. Beers. 2015. “Instability of the Arabidopsis Mutant csn5a-2 Caused by Epigenetic Modification of Intronic T-DNA.” Plant Science: An International Journal of Experimental Plant Biology 238 (September): 53–63.

Jia, Xiaoyan. 2013. “Functional Analysis of Novel Protein-Protein Interactions Involving ROP GTPases in Arabidopsis Thaliana and Populus Trichocarpa,” September. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/51802

Jia, Xiaoyan, Mingzhe Zhao, Chengsong Zhao, Xiaoyan Sheng, Allan Dickerman, Eric Beers, and Amy Brunner. 2011. “Populus Biomass Protein-Protein Interactions and Their Functions.” BMC Proceedings 5 (7): O38.

Zhu, Hong-Liang, Ben-Zhong Zhu, Ying-Cong Li, Yi Shao, Xiao-Guang Wang, Yuan-Hong Xie, An-Jun Chen, Jun-Jie Luo, Xiao-Yan Jia, and Yun-Bo Luo. 2008. “Expression and DNA Binding Activity of the Tomato Transcription Factor RIN (ripening Inhibitor).” Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry 72 (1): 250–52.

JIA, Xiao-yan, ZHU Hong-liang, ZHU Ben-zhong, LUO Yun-bo. 2008. “Optimization for Radioactive Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay System.” Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology.