Biography
Dr. Jiajia Dong is an associate professor and a master’s supervisor in Medical Biotechnology at School of Basic Medical Sciences and Life Sciences, Xuzhou Medical University. She received her Ph.D. from Sorbonne université in 2019. She has secured multiple research grants as principal investigator, including the NSFC Youth Project, the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation Youth Project, the “Double Innovation” Talent Program, and the Xuzhou Medical University Outstanding Talent Start-up Project.
Dr. Jiajia Dong specializes in insect taxonomy, phylogeny, animal evolution, and population genomics. The current research focuses on comparative genomics and mechanisms of adaptive evolution underlying biological adaptation to environmental changes.
Education
Sorbonne université, 05/2014 – 02/2019, PhD
Shaanxi Normal University, 09/2008 – 12/2018, PhD
Anqing Normal University, 09/2004 – 07/2008, Bachelor of Science
Publications:
1 Yu ZY, Dong J#, Hugel S, Jaiswara R, He ZQ, Robillard T, Kergoat G. Out‐of‐Africa: Origin of the disjunct distribution of Paleotropical Eneopterinae crickets (Gryllidae, Xenogryllini). Zoologica Scripta, 2025, 55(1): 116-130.
2 Liu Y, Xie Y, Wang Y, Zong YY, Liu Y, Li C, Dong J*. The development and application of mini-barcodes from mitochondrial DNA for identifying medicinal leeches from traditional medicines. Scientific Reports, 2025, 15: 20444
3 Dong J*, Liu Y#, Tan MK, Wahab RA, Nattier R, Chifflet-Belle P, Robillard T. Museomics allows comparative analyses of mitochondrial genomes in the family Gryllidae (Insecta, Orthoptera) and confirms its phylogenetic relationships. PeerJ, 2024, 12:e17734 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17734
4 Liu Y, Fu X, Wang Y, Liu J, Liu Y, Li C, Dong J*. Exploring Barbronia species diversity and phylogenetic relationship within Suborder Erpobdelliformes (Clitellata: Annelida). PeerJ, 2024, 12: e17480 DOI 10.7717/peerj.17480
5 Kernan C.E., Robillard T., Martinson S.J., Dong J., Hamel J.A., Symes L.B, ter Hofstede H.M. Levels of airborne sound and substrate-borne vibration calling are negatively related across Neotropical false-leaf katydids. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2024, 64(1): 120-133.
