Jonchee

Jonchee Kao

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Jonchee Kao

Graduate Student
joncheekao@g.harvard.edu


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Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Daimon Lab, University of Kyoto

Education:

B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley CA, USA.

Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

Research Interests:

Jonchee is interested in comparative analysis of the molecular mechanisms of germ line specification. He was a graduate student in the lab from 2020 to 2025. He is currently pursuing a postdoc in the evo-devo of body patterning, as an awardee of a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Publications while at Extavour Lab:

Divergence of germ cell-less roles in germ line development across insect species. Jonchee A. Kao, Ben Ewen-Campen and Cassandra G. Extavour Developmental Biology, 525: 93-101 (2025). [PubMed]
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oskar acts with the transcription factor Creb to regulate long-term memory in crickets. Arpita Kulkarni, Ben Ewen-Campen, Kanta Terao, Yukihisa Matsumoto, Yaolong Li, Takayuki Watanabe, Jonchee A. Kao, Swapnil S. Parhad, Guillem Ylla, Makoto Mizunami and Cassandra G. Extavour PNAS, 120 (21) e2218506120 (2023). [PubMed]
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There and back again: the dynamic evolution of panarthropod germ cell specification mechanisms. Jonchee A. Kao, Emily L. Rivard, Rishabh R. Kapoor and Cassandra G. Extavour bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.05.668520 (2025).

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Other Publications:

Parker, M.W., Kao, J.A., Huang, A., Berger, J.M., Botchan, M.R. and Berger, J.M. 2021.Molecular determinants of phase separation for Drosophila DNA replication licensing factors. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.70535

Parker, M.W., Bell, M., Mir, M., Kao, J.A., Darzacq, X., Botchan, M.R. and Berger, J.M. 2019. A new class of disordered elements controls DNA replication through initiator self-assembly. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.48562