BioSketch

Jingshi Shen

Affiliation

Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder.

Contact

Lab: Gold 345, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309

Email: jingshi.shen@colorado.edu;

Phone: 303-492-6166 (office), 303-492-6626 (lab);

Education and Training

1998 B.S.  Department of Biological Sciences & Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

2004 Ph.D. (with distinction). Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Mentor: Ron Prywes, Professor.

Positions

2004-2008 Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY. Mentor: James E. Rothman (now Sterling Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University)

2008-2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

2015-2020 Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

2020-         Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Awards and Honors

1999-2004  Columbia University Faculty Pre-doctoral Fellowship

2003           Keystone Symposia Scholarship, Taos, NM, USA.

2004           John S. Newberry Graduate Student Research Award of Columbia University

2004            Ph.D. Degree with distinction, Columbia University, New York

2005-2007   Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship

2007-2012   NIH Pathway to Independence Award

2010-2014   Pew Scholar Award

2011, 2017   Innovation Award, University of Colorado Boulder