Professor, HHMI Investigator
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Chen received her Ph.D. in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology from University of Texas at Austin (Drosophila eye development research). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Margaret Fuller at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she focused on how tissue-specific transcription factors regulate robust transcription of differentiation genes in germ cells. Dr. Chen joined the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins in 2008. Her current research focuses on the epigenetic regulation in adult stem cell lineages. Her studies have led to the discovery that epigenetic information is asymmetrically inherited in stem cells. Furthermore, Dr. Chen’s recent studies illuminate that both DNA replication and mitotic cell division contribute to establishing and partitioning such an epigenetic asymmetry. Dr. Chen is an HHMI Investigator (https://www.hhmi.org/scientists/xin-chen) and a Professor of the Department of Biology at the Johns Hopkins University.