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Fanju Meng

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Biological Sciences

College: College of Science

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of Rochester - School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2018
    Major: Genetics
    Dissertation: Regulation of Stem Cell Proliferatoin and Differentiation by Drosophila Sox21a and Sox100b in the Adult Intestine.
  • MS, University of Rochester - School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2015
    Major: Genetics
  • BS, Shandong University, 2012
    Major: Biology Science

Current Scheduled Teaching

No current or future courses scheduled.

Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

BIOL 3451.003GeneticsSpring 2026 Syllabus
BIOL 6940.732Individual ResearchSpring 2026
BIOL 4005.002Contemporary Topics in BiologyFall 2025 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 6940.732Individual ResearchFall 2025
BIOL 4900.732Special ProblemsFall 2025 Syllabus
BIOL 5005.002TOPICS IN BIOLOGYFall 2025 SPOT
BIOL 3451.002GeneticsSpring 2025 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 6940.732Individual ResearchSpring 2025
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Meng, F., Murphy, P.J. (2025). Canonical and Variant Nucleosome Reprogramming from Sperm to Blastula. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). Zygotic Genome Activation. 2923 https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-0716-4522-2_2

    • Editoral Comment

  • Meng, F., Murphy, P.J. (2021). Rolling uphill: in vivo reacquisition of pluripotency during cranial neural crest differentiation.. Other. 4 (1) 626.

    • Editorial Comment

  • Meng, F., Biteau, B. (2017). There and back again: amitosis to repopulate a stem cell pool.. Other. 4 82.

    • Journal Article

  • Wei, X., Naidu, V., Schneider, P., Murphy, P.J., Meng, F. (2025). Protocol for mapping insertion sites of Tol2 transgenes in zebrafish using TransTag. STAR Protocols..
  • Meng, F., Schneider, P., Wei, X., Ariyasiri, K., Halpern, M.E., Murphy, P.J. (2025). TransTag enables simple and efficient transgene mapping in zebrafish via tagmentation. Cell Reports Methods. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-methods/fulltext/S2667-2375(25)00126-2
  • Blanc, R.S., Shah, N., Hachmer, S., Salama, N.A., Meng, F., Mousaei, A., Puri, G., Hwang, J.H., Wacker, E.E., Young, B.A., Aguilar, C.A., Chakkalakal, J.V., Onukwufor, J.O., Murphy, P.J., Calvi, L.M., Dilworth, F.J., Dirksen, R. (2025). Epigenetic erosion of H4K20me1 induced by inflammation drives aged stem cell ferroptosis. Nature Aging. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-025-00902-5
  • Halblander, F.N., Meng, F., Murphy, P.J. (2024). Anp32e protects against accumulation of H2A.Z at Sox motif containing promoters during zebrafish gastrulation. Developmental Biology. 507 34-43. Elsevier BV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2023.12.010
  • Meng, F., Murphy, K.E., Makowski, C.E., Delatte, B., Murphy, P.J. (2023). Competition for H2A.Z underlies the developmental impacts of repetitive element de-repression. Development. 150 (21) The Company of Biologists. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.202338
  • Shi, H., Chen, S., Meng, F., Ossip, D.J., Yan, C., Li, D. (2023). Epigenome-wide DNA methylation profiling in comparison between pathological and physiological hypertrophy of human cardiomyocytes. Other. 14 Frontiers Media SA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2023.1264382
  • Akdogan-Ozdilek, B., Duval, K.L., Meng, F., Murphy, P.J., Goll, M.G. (2021). Identification of chromatin states during zebrafish gastrulation using CUT&RUN and CUT&Tag.. Other. 251 (4) 729-742. https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dvdy.430
  • Murphy, K.E., Meng, F., Makowski, C.E., Murphy, P.J. (2020). Genome-wide chromatin accessibility is restricted by ANP32E.. Nature Communications. 11 (1) 5063.
  • Meng, F., Rojas Villa, S.E., Biteau, B. (2020). Sox100B Regulates Progenitor-Specific Gene Expression and Cell Differentiation in the Adult Drosophila Intestine.. Other. 14 (2) 226-240.
  • Rojas Villa, S.E., Meng, F., Biteau, B. (2019). zfh2 controls progenitor cell activation and differentiation in the adult Drosophila intestinal absorptive lineage.. Other. 15 (12) e1008553.
  • Meng, F., Biteau, B. (2015). A Sox Transcription Factor Is a Critical Regulator of Adult Stem Cell Proliferation in the Drosophila Intestine.. Other. 13 (5) 906-14.

    • Pre-print

  • Phromsiri, P., Wei, X., Makowski, C.E., Reger, N., Nguyen, D.K., Alam, H.M., Shindo, Y., Amodeo, A., Murphy, P.J., Meng, F., Welte, M.A. (2026). H2A.Z levels control the timing of major events at the maternal-zygotic transition. bioRxiv.
  • Nguyen, D., Phromsiri, P., McDonnell, T., Briedis-Gert, K., Pauli, A., Welte, M.A., Tropepe, V., Meng, F., Murphy, P.J. Partitioning of Transposon-Rich Maternal DNA is a Prerequisite for Embryonic Gene Activation. Research Square.. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9013907/v1
  • Das, D., Khor, E., Jiang, F., He, J., Kawakami, Y., Wainwright, L., Hollinger, J., Geiger, J., Liu, H., Meng, F., Porter Jr, G.A., Jin, Z., Murphy, P., Yao, P. (2024). Loss-of-function of RNA-binding protein PRRC2B causes translational defects and congenital cardiovascular malformation. medRxiv. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.26.24313895v1
  • Blanc, R.S., Shah, N., Salama, N.A., Meng, F., Mousaei, A., Yang, B.A., Aguilar, C.A., Chakkalakal, J.V., Onukwufor, J.O., Murphy, P.J., Calvi, L., Dirksen, R. (2024). Epigenetic erosion of H4K20me1 induced by inflammation drives aged stem cell ferroptosis.. Research Square Platform LLC. http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3937628/v2
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