| Mar 18, 2026 | Excited to share our new Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism paper! We highlight a new view of RNA modifications: from hidden chemical marks to disease biomarkers and hormone-like signaling molecules that may reshape how we understand endocrine and metabolic regulation. |
| Jan 21, 2026 | We’re excited to share our new EMBO Journal paper! Using PANDORA-seq, we reveal aging-associated shifts in sperm small RNAs, including a conserved rsRNA length shift in sperm heads across mice and humans, and a pronounced “aging cliff” during the mid-life transition. |
| Oct 26, 2025 | We’re delighted to announce that Dr. Liwen Zhang received the Best Poster Award at the 2025 CSBMB National Academic Conference, held in Nanchang from Oct 23–26. Congratulations to Dr. Zhang and collaborators on this outstanding recognition. |
| Sep 1, 2025 | We’re very glad to share that Xiang Li has joined us as a Ph.D. student, and Xue Wang has joined as a master’s student! |
| Aug 16, 2025 | In collaboration with Prof. Ying Zhang’s lab, we moved from the paternal story to the maternal side of intergenerational inheritance. This work has been published in Nature Communications. By pinpointing uterine-fluid small RNAs as messengers, we open a window for early risk detection and potential intervention. |
| Aug 1, 2025 | We are delighted to welcome Yashuai Wu to our lab as a research assistant. Yashuai will support ongoing projects in experimental design, data analysis, and lab operations. Welcome aboard! |
| Apr 3, 2025 | We are pleased to share our optimized PANDORA-seq protocol, now published in Nature Protocols. We hope this updated protocol helps researchers better explore the RNA universe! |
| Aug 21, 2024 | Our collaborative work with the Bruno Di Stefano lab on P-body RNAs and myeloid leukemia has been published in Nature Cell Biology. |
| Aug 1, 2024 | Dr. Liwen Zhang has joined our lab as a postdoctoral researcher. |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Wan Jin has joined our lab as a graduate student. |
| May 11, 2024 | Junchao has been elected as a Youth Editor for Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics. |
| Feb 1, 2024 | Xinxin Liu has officially joined the ncRNAomics Lab as a Ph.D. student. |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Zerong Feng joined the ncRNAomics Lab as a Ph.D. student; Ao Huang and Lefan Xie joined as master’s students. |
| Aug 3, 2023 | Junchao gave a talk at the GPB Omics & Bioinformatics Frontiers Symposium 2023 in Beijing. |
| May 13, 2022 | Junchao gave a talk at the 5th Annual IIGB Symposium at the University of California, Riverside. |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Our perspective on exploring the expanding universe of small RNAs has been published as a cover story in Nature Cell Biology. |
| May 25, 2021 | Junchao gave a talk introducing SPORTS and PANDORA-seq for improved small RNA identification and characterization at the GECKO Conference: Epigenetic Inheritance Across Species. |
| May 13, 2021 | Junchao gave a talk introducing SPORTS 1.1 at the Keystone eSymposia on Non-Coding RNAs. |