Jun Miao, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine

Senior Research Scientist, Department of Entomology

Senior Research Associate, Department of Entomology

Research Associate, Department of Entomology

Associate Professor, Department of Parasitology

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Molecular Biology

Lecturer, Department of Parasitology

Contact Info

• USF Infectious Disease Research
  12901 Bruce B Downs Blvd, MDC84
  Tampa FL 33612
• Academic Email: jmiao1@usf.edu
• Academic Phone: (813) 974-7374
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Education

Interdisciplinary and Emerging Signature Programs

• Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease
• Environmental & amp; Global Health

Awards/Honors

• Award for Best Poster (24th Molecular Parasitology Meeting at Woods Hole, MA - 2013)
• DAAD Postdoctoral Research Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service - 2004)
• Travel Award (WHO/TDR for International Training Workshop on Microarray Technology for Malaria Parasites, Thailand - 2003)
• Travel Award (10th International Congress of Protozoology, Sydney, Australia - 1997)

Recent Publications

• Liang X, Boonhok R, Siddiqui FA, Xiao B, Li X, Qin J, Min H, Jiang L, Cui L, Miao J A Leak-Free Inducible CRISPRi/a System for Gene Functional Studies in Plasmodium falciparum Microbiology Spectrum. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02782-21. PMID: 35510853. , 2022.
• Miao J, Wang C, Lucky AB, Liang X, Min H, Adapa SR, Jiang R, Kim K, Cui L A unique GCN5 histone acetyltransferase complex controls erythrocyte invasion and virulence in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum PLoS Pathog. 17, e1009351. , 2021.
• Huang G, Solano CM, Melendez J, Yu-Alfonzo S, Boonhok R, Min H, Miao J, Chakrabarti D, Yuan Y Discovery of fast-acting dual-stage antimalarial agents by profiling pyridylvinylquinoline chemical space via copper catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloadditions. Eur J Med Chem. doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112889. , 2020.
• Brashear AM, Huckaby AC, Fan Q,Dillard LJ, Hu Y, Li Y, Zhao Y, Wang Z, Cao Y, Miao J, Guler JL, Cui L. New Plasmodium vivax Genomes from the China-Myanmar Border Front Microbiol. doi: 10.3389/fmicb. 11(11) : 1930, 2020.
• Siddiqui F, Boonhok R, Cabrera M, Ngassa Mbenda HG, Wang M, Min H, Liang X, Qin J, Zhu X, Miao J, Cao Y, Cui L The role of PfK13 mutations in Plasmodium falciparum populations from northeastern Myanmar in mediating artemisinin resistance mBio. 2020 Feb 25;11(1):e01134-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01134-19. , 2020.
• Brashear AM, Fan Q, Hu Y, Li Y, Zhao Y, Wang Z, Cao Y, Miao J, Barry A, Cui L Population genomics identifies a distinct Plasmodium vivax population on the China-Myanmar border of Southeast Asia PLoS Negl Trop Dis. e0008506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.008506. PMID: 32745103. 14(8) , 2020.
• Zheng W, Liu F, Du F, Yang F, Kou X, He Y, Feng H, Fan Q, Luo E, Min H, Miao J, Cui L, Cao Y Characterization of Sulfhydryl Oxidase from Plasmodium berghei as a Target for Blocking Parasite Transmission Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 10:311. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00311. PMID: 32670896. , 2020.
• Li J, Zhang J, Li Q, Hu Y, Ruan Y, Tao Z, Xia H, Qiao J, Meng L, Zeng W, Li C, He X, Zhao L, Siddiqui FA, Miao J, Yang Z, Fang Q, Cui L Ex vivo susceptibilities of Plasmodium vivax isolates from the China-Myanmar border to antimalarial drugs and association with polymorphisms in Pvmdr1 and Pvcrt-o genes. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 14(6):e0008255. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008255.. , 2020.
• Gibbons J, Qin J, Malla P, Wang Z, Brashear A, Wang C, Miao J, Adams JH, Kim K, Jiang R, Cui L Lineage-specific expansion of Plasmodium falciparum parasites with pfhrp2 deletion in the Greater Mekong Subregion J Infect Dis. jiaa250. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa250. Online ahead of print.. , 2020.
• Huang Z, Li,R, Tang T, Ling D, Wang M, Xu D, Sun M, Zheng L, Zhu F, Min H, Boonhok R, Ding Y, Wen Y, Chen Y, Li Y, ChenY, Liu T, Han J, Miao J, et al. A novel multistage antimalarial inhibitor targeting Plasmodium falciparum histone deacetylase 1 Cell Discov.. 6(1) : 93, 2020.

Positions Held

• Senior Research Scientist (Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania University 2016 - 2018)
• Senior Research Associate (Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania University 2012 - 2016)
• Research Associate (Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania University 2005 - 2012)
• Associate Professor (Department of Parasitology, The Fourth Military Medical University 2004 - 2005)
• Postdoctoral Fellow (Center for Molecular Biology, University Heidelberg 2000 - 2004)
• Lecturer (Department of Parasitology, The Fourth Military Medical University 1991 - 1993)