Education/degrees:
1999-2003 Ph.D. Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1994-1997 M.S. China Agricultural University
1990-1994 B.A. HeiBei Agricultural University
Research Experiences
2009-Current
Principle Investigator, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2004-2009
Research Associate, Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2003-2004
Post-doc, Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
1999-2003
PhD, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
1990-1994
M.S., College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University

The mechanisms of persistence, antibiotics resist and tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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[2] Joshua Drumm*, Kaixia Mi*, Patric Bilder*, Meihao Sun, Jihyeon Lim, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Randall Basaraba, Melvin So, Guogeng Zhu, JoAnn Tufariello, Angelo Izzo, Ian Orme, Steve Almo, Thomas Leyh, John Chan#, Mycobacterium tuberculosis universial stress protein Rv2623 regulates bacillary growth by ATP-binding: Requirement for Establishing Chronic Persistent Infection, PLoS Pathog 2009, 5(5): e1000460 (*equally contribution)
[3] JoAnn Tufariello#, Kaixia Mi, JiaYong Xu etal. Deletion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis resuscitation-promoting factor Rv1009 gene results in delayed reactivation from chronic tuberculosis, Infection and Immunity, 2006, 74(5), 2985-2995