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Julius von Sachs

Julius von Sachs (1832–1897) was a German botanist and plant physiologist who introduced controlled, quantitative experimentation into botany, proved photosynthesis occurs in chloroplasts, and founded modern plant physiology.

Jun Lü (molecular biologist)

Jun Lü, also published as Jun Lu, is a molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Yale, known for the 2005 Nature study classifying cancers by microRNA profiles.

Jun O. Liu

Jun O. Liu is a chemical biologist and professor of pharmacology and oncology at Johns Hopkins, who directs the Johns Hopkins Drug Library and created the rapafucins.

Jun Qin (medical researcher)

Jun Qin is a structural and molecular biologist at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute, known since his 2002 Cell paper for structural work on integrin inside-out activation.

Jun Qin (molecular biologist)

Jun Qin is a molecular biologist and mass-spectrometry proteomics researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, known for co-leading the 2011 Cell study that mapped the human endogenous coregulator complexome.

Jun Wang

Jun Wang (born 1976) is a Chinese genomics and bioinformatics researcher who founded BGI's Bioinformatics Department in 1999, contributed to the SARS coronavirus genome analysis, and led sequencing of the first Asian diploid genome.

Jun Wu

Jun Wu is a molecular biologist and stem cell researcher at UT Southwestern in Dallas, known for creating the first human–pig chimeric embryos in 2017.

Jun-ichi Nakayama

Jun-ichi Nakayama (中山俊一, born 1971) is a Japanese epigenetics researcher who has been Professor of Chromatin Regulation at the National Institute for Basic Biology since 2016.

Jun-ichi Tomizawa

Jun-ichi Tomizawa (富澤 純一; 1924–2017) was a Japanese molecular geneticist who worked on phage and plasmid DNA replication and first showed antisense RNAs regulate genes.

June B. Nasrallah

June B. Nasrallah, also cited as J. B. Nasrallah, is a plant molecular biologist at Cornell University known for working out the molecular genetics of self-incompatibility in flowering plants.

June Round

June Round is an American immunologist and professor at the University of Utah whose laboratory showed that gut bacteria and fungi, including Bacteroides fragilis, shape immune and metabolic health.

Junichi Takagi

Junichi Takagi (高木淳一, born 1962) is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at Osaka University's Institute for Protein Research, known for work on integrins and the Fv-clasp crystallization chaperone.

Junji Iwahara

Junji Iwahara is a biophysical chemist and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, known for using NMR spectroscopy to study how proteins scan DNA.

Junji Takeda

Junji Takeda (竹田 潤二) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Osaka University whose 1993 Cell paper identified PIG-A mutations as the cause of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

Junjie Chen

Junjie Chen is a cancer biologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for work on the DNA damage response and genomic stability.

Junjie Hu (胡俊杰)

Junjie Hu (胡俊杰) is a Chinese cell biologist who studies how the endoplasmic reticulum takes shape, leading a lab at the Institute of Biophysics in Beijing.

Junyue Cao

Junyue Cao (曹俊越) is a Chinese-born computational biologist and Rockefeller University associate professor known for sci-RNA-seq combinatorial indexing methods and single-cell atlases of mammalian development and aging.

Jürg Bähler

Jürg Bähler is a Swiss molecular biologist and Professor of Systems Biology at University College London who studies aging and genome regulation in fission yeast.

Jürg Müller

Jürg Müller is a German-based biochemist and group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried since 2010, known for identifying the enzymatic activities of Polycomb complexes PRC2 and PR-DUB.

Jürg Tschopp

Jürg Tschopp (1951–2011) was a Swiss biochemist and immunologist at the University of Lausanne who discovered and named the inflammasome, and also the granzymes and perforin, work that led to therapies for gout and lupus.

Jürgen Popp

Jürgen Popp (born 1966 in Dinkelsbühl) is a German physical chemist who develops Raman-based, label-free optical diagnostics, leading the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena since 2006.

Jürgen Ruland

Jürgen Ruland (born 1966) is a German physician-scientist and immunologist at TU Munich who studies immune signaling pathways and how their defects cause immunodeficiency, inflammation, and lymphoma.

Juro Sakai

Juro Sakai (酒井 寿郎) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor at Tohoku University, known for showing that SREBP is released from cell membranes by two sequential cleavages.

Jurrien Dean

Jurrien Dean is an NIH Distinguished Investigator who studies fertilization in mice, known for the ZP2/ovastacin model of sperm-egg recognition and a 1989 contraceptive vaccine study.

Justin Blau

Justin Blau is an American molecular neuroscientist and Professor of Biology and Neural Science at New York University, known for work on the fruit fly circadian clock.

Justin Crocker

Justin Crocker is a molecular biologist and group leader at EMBL Heidelberg since 2017 who studies how transcriptional enhancers encode gene expression, building artificial enhancers in fruit flies.

Justin L. Sonnenburg

Justin L. Sonnenburg is an American microbiologist and Stanford professor who studies how the gut microbiota interacts with diet and the immune system, leading his Stanford lab since 2008.

Justin Rustenhoven

Justin Rustenhoven is a New Zealand neuroimmunologist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, known for work on skull bone marrow immune surveillance of the brain.

Justin Taraska

Justin W. Taraska is an American cell biologist and Senior Investigator at the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute who studies vesicle fusion and endocytosis.

Justin Zook

Justin Zook is an American biomedical engineer and genomics researcher at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who co-leads the Genome in a Bottle Consortium and received a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.