Juntao Yu, Ph.D.

Juntao Yu is a graduate student in Dr. Danesh Moazed's Lab at the Department of Cell Biology of Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He wants to understand the mechanisms underlying the transmission and maintenance of biological information.

Juntao's Ph.D. thesis in the Moazed Lab focuses on the mechanism of replisome-mediated parental histone inheritance during DNA replication. Trained as a molecular cell biologist, he is a strong advocate for model organism-based and hypothesis-driven mechanistic research.

Juntao's primary goal in biological research is to make new scientific discoveries in molecular cell biology through creative and collaborative studies. He wants to understand the fundamental principles of life, ultimately benefiting humanity. In addition, he strongly believes in and is committed to mentoring next-generation young scientists and empowering them to contribute to the future of life sciences in the best version of themselves.

Before joining Harvard, Juntao earned his B.S. in Biology with honor from the University of Science and Technology of China. As an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Bing Ren’s Lab at the University of California, San Diego, he contributed to a study to identify distal regulatory elements in pluripotency gene activation in embryonic stem cells.

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Juntao Yu, Ph.D.

Graduate student, Moazed Lab

Department of Cell Biology, 

Harvard Medical School,

240 Longwood Ave,

Boston, MA 02115

Email: juntao_yu AT g.harvard.edu