Dr. Ma received her Bachelor's degree from Peking University. She obtained her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she discovered new mechanisms for stem cell fate determination in Dr. Erika Matunis lab. She is the 2015 winner of the Hans Joaquim Prochaska Research Award. Dr. Ma did her post-doctoral training at the Stanford University under Dr. Howard Chang, where she investigated the function of long non-coding RNAs. She was awarded the Dean's Fellowship from Stanford University. The Ma Laboratory focuses on three areas: (i) Elucidating the functions and mechanisms of non-coding genomic regions and non-coding RNAs in stem cell differentiation and epigenetic regulation, and developing synthetic biology tools based on these RNAs; (ii) Investigating the role of cell membrane surface RNAs in intercellular recognition and interactions; (iii) Creating novel co-detection technologies for the study of the mechanisms of microbial–host interactions.
E-mail: qing.ma@siat.ac.cn