Changxu Fan

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Ting Wang, PhD

Undergraduate university: Nankai University, 2017

Enrollment year: 2018

Research summary
Cis-regulatory evolution of the Ly49 gene family

Graduate publications
Fan C, Xing X, Murphy SJH, Poursine-Laurent J, Schmidt H, Parikh BA, Yoon J, Choudhary MNK, Saligrama N, Piersma SJ, Yokoyama WM, Wang T. 2024 Cis-regulatory evolution of the recently expanded Ly49 gene family. Nat Commun, 15(1):4839. PMCID: PMC11156856

Foltz JA, Tran J, Wong P, Fan C, Schmidt E, Fisk B, Becker-Hapak M, Russler-Germain DA, Johnson J, Marin ND, Cubitt CC, Pence P, Rueve J, Pureti S, Hwang K, Gao F, Zhou AY, Foster M, Schappe T, Marsala L, Berrien-Elliott MM, Cashen AF, Bednarski JJ, Fertig E, Griffith OL, Griffith M, Wang T, Petti AA, Fehniger TA. 2024 Cytokines drive the formation of memory-like NK cell subsets via epigenetic rewiring and transcriptional regulation. Sci Immunol, 9(96):eadk4893. PMCID:

Wu J, Fan C, Kabir AU, Krchma K, Kim M, Kwon Y, Xing X, Wang T, Choi K. 2024 Baf155 controls hematopoietic differentiation and regeneration through chromatin priming. Cell Rep, 43(8):114558. PMCID:

Flynn JA, Purushotham D, Choudhary MNK, Zhou X, Fan C, Matt G, Li D, Wang T. 2020 Exploring the coronavirus pandemic with the WashU Virus Genome Browser. Nat Genet, 52(10):986-91. PMCID:

Song M, Pebworth MP, Yang X, Abnousi A, Fan C, Wen J, Rosen JD, Choudhary MNK, Cui X, Jones IR, Bergenholtz S, Eze UC, Juric I, Li B, Maliskova L, Lee J, Liu W, Pollen AA, Li Y, Wang T, Hu M, Kriegstein AR, Shen Y. 2020 Cell-type-specific 3D epigenomes in the developing human cortex. Nature, 587(7835):644-49. PMCID: PMC7704572