Jian-jun finished his MSc in microbiology (Virology) at the University of Montreal, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 2009. Following this he joined the lab of Professor Earl Brown as a research assistant at the University of Ottawa. In 2014, he started working in the lab of Dr Tommy Alain of the CHEO Research Institute. Having worked in the areas of influenza virus revolution, cancer, and translation he has built up many skills in virology and molecular biology related areas, including RNA, gene cloning, gene expression, ribosome profiling, tissues/cell culture, gene mutagenesis, protein purification and quantification, real-time PCR and digital PCR. In 2019 he joined the lab of Professor Hanns Lochmüller where he put his molecular biology and tissue culturing techniques to use for research into neuromuscular diseases.
