ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-130617-1
Yang, Qiong
Email: qiongy@umich.edu
URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~qiongy
Affiliation: Qiong Yang Lab
Address: Qiong Yang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biophysics Chemistry Building Room 3301 930 North University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055 Mailing address for the laboratory: Yang Lab Department of Biophysics Chemistry Building Room 3215 930 North University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055
Country: United States
Phone: 734-764-4669
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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2442-2094


BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Education
B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2003
Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009
Postdoc in Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, 2013

Honors and Awards
2017 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
2016-21 NIH MIRA Award (for New and Early Stage Investigators)
2015-20 NSF CAREER Award
2013-14 The Burroughs Wellcome Fund CRTG Grant
2013, 2012 The Helena Anna Henzl-Gabor Young Women in Science
2011-13 HHMI Fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
2010 Stanford Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
2009 Center for the Physics of Living Cells Fellow, UIUC (declined)
2011, 08 The q-Bio Conference and Summer School Fellowships
2008 MIT GSC Travel Fund Grant
2006 MIT Graduate WIP Travel Grant

Research Interests:
We are broadly interested in quantitative understanding of zebrafish early embryo development. By connecting the understanding at the molecule, cellular, and tissue levels, we pin down the physical mechanisms that give rise to collective spatio-temporal patterns that arise from complex interactive networks of cells and molecules through biochemical signals and mechanical forces.
Currently, we're recruiting talented and motivated people. Please visit our lab webpage (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~qiongy/) for further information.


PUBLICATIONS
Kimberly, W.T., O’Sullivan, J., Nath, A.K., Keyes, M., Yang, Q., Larson, M.G., Ramachandran, V., Peterson, R.T., Wang, T.J., Corey, .K, Gerszten, R.E. (2017) Metabolite profiling identifies anandamide as a biomarker of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. JCI insight. 2(9)

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
Z. Li and Q. Yang. Incoherent inputs promote network robustness of biological oscillators. Cell Systems (2017). Accepted.

Z. Li and Q. Yang. Quantitative and synthetic biology approaches in understanding biological oscillators. Quantitative Biology (2017). Accepted.

Q. Yang and J. E. Ferrell Jr.. The Cdk1-APC/C cell cycle oscillator circuit functions as a time-delayed, ultrasensitive switch. Nat Cell Biol 15, 519 (2013).

J. E. Ferrell Jr., T. Tsai, and Q. Yang. Modeling the cell cycle: why do certain circuits oscillate? Cell 144, 874 (2011).

Q. Yang*, B. F. Pando*, G. Dong, S. S. Golden, and A. van Oudenaarden. Circadian gating of the cell cycle revealed in single cyanobacterial cells. Science 327, 1522 (2010).

G. Dong, Q. Yang, Q. Wang, Y. Kim, T. L. Wood, K. W. Osteryoung, A. van Oudenaarden, and S. S. Golden. Elevated ATPase activity of KaiC applies a circadian checkpoint on cell division in Synechococcus elongatus. Cell 140, 529 (2010).

B. B. Kaufmann*, Q. Yang*, J. T. Mettetal, and A. van Oudenaarden. Heritable stochastic switching revealed by single-cell genealogy. PLoS Biol 5, e239 (2007). *Equal contribution