Pei Lin

About Me

I have been a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Eniko Sajti’s lab at the Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego, since July 2024. Before joining the Sajti lab, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Zhong Lab in the Department of Bioengineering, UCSD, from September 2021 to June 2024.

I received my Ph.D. in Biology with a Specialization in Bioinformatics from Sun Yat-Sen University under the supervision of Dr. Chung-I Wu (July 2014 - June 2021). I received my bachelor’s degree in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Southern Medical University (Sep 2006 - June 2010). Both universities are located in Guangzhou.

I was born and raised in a Teochew family (data not shown). Here is a Wiki about Teochew people (潮州人/潮汕人) and our culture.

• UCSD profile

Research Interests

• Medical genomics:
  • immune checkpoint receptor signaling
  • innate immunity
• Evolutionary genomics:
  • the role of microRNA in gene expression evolution (part of my Ph.D. thesis).
  • genetic incompatibiliy - for example, disease-associated amino acid residues in one species could be the wild-type in another species.

Reading

• Blogs, assays, and more…
  • Old travels (Jerry Coyne)
  • How I wangled myself into Harvard in one day (Jerry Coyne)
  • A retrospective look at a paper: Coyne and Orr (1989)
  • Oxford Protein Informatics Group
  • Revisiting Reznick et al. 1990
  • Johnson, N. (2008) Hybrid incompatibility and speciation. Nature Education 1(1):20 link
• Articles
  • A.S. Kondrashov, S. Sunyaev, & F.A. Kondrashov, Dobzhansky–Muller incompatibilities in protein evolution, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (23) 14878-14883, (2002). link
  • Orr, H. The genetic theory of adaptation: a brief history. Nat Rev Genet 6, 119–127 (2005). link
  • Zhu, Z., Younas, L. & Zhou, Q. Evolution and regulation of animal sex chromosomes. Nat Rev Genet 26, 59–74 (2025). link

Publications

My Google Scholar page

Note

This page was last updated in June, 2025.

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