Lijun Yao

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Current advisor: Li Ding, PhD

Undergraduate university: Agricultural University of Hebei, 2015

Enrollment year: 2017

Research summary
Myeloma cell associated therapeutic protein discovery using single-cell RNA-seq data

Graduate publications
Yao L, Jayasinghe RG, Lee BH, Bhasin SS, Pilcher W, Doxie DB, Gonzalez-Kozlova E, Dasari S, Fiala MA, Pita-Juarez Y, Strausbauch M, Kelly G, Thomas BE, Kumar SK, Cho HJ, Anderson E, Wendl MC, Dawson T, D’souza D, Oh ST, Cheloni G, Li Y, DiPersio JF, Rahman AH, Dhodapkar KM, Kim-Schulze S, Vij R, Vlachos IS, Mehr S, Hamilton M, Auclair D, Kourelis T, Avigan D, Dhodapkar MV, Gnjatic S, Bhasin MK, Ding L. 2023 Comprehensive Characterization of the Multiple Myeloma Immune Microenvironment Using Integrated scRNA-seq, CyTOF, and CITE-seq Analysis. Cancer Res Commun, 2(10):1255-65. PMCID: PMC10035369

Wu Y, Terekhanova NV, Caravan W, Naser Al Deen N, Lal P, Chen S, Mo CK, Cao S, Li Y, Karpova A, Liu R, Zhao Y, Shinkle A, Strunilin I, Weimholt C, Sato K, Yao L, Serasanambati M, Yang X, Wyczalkowski M, Zhu H, Zhou DC, Jayasinghe RG, Mendez D, Wendl MC, Clark D, Newton C, Ruan Y, Reimers MA, Pachynski RK, Kinsinger C, Jewell S, Chan DW, Zhang H, Chaudhuri AA, Chheda MG, Humphreys BD, Mesri M, Rodriguez H, Hsieh JJ, Ding L, Chen F. 2023 Epigenetic and transcriptomic characterization reveals progression markers and essential pathways in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Nat Commun, 14(1):1681. PMCID: PMC10042888

Yao L, Wang JT, Jayasinghe RG, O’Neal J, Tsai CF, Rettig MP, Song Y, Liu R, Zhao Y, Ibrahim OM, Fiala MA, Fortier JM, Chen S, Gehrs L, Rodrigues FM, Wendl MC, Kohnen D, Shinkle A, Cao S, Foltz SM, Zhou DC, Storrs E, Wyczalkowski MA, Mani S, Goldsmith SR, Zhu Y, Hamilton M, Liu T, Chen F, Vij R, Ding L, DiPersio JF. 2023 Single-Cell Discovery and Multiomic Characterization of Therapeutic Targets in Multiple Myeloma. Cancer Res, 83(8):1214-33. PMCID: PMC10102848

Pilcher W, Thomas BE, Bhasin SS, Jayasinghe RG, Yao L, Gonzalez-Kozlova E, Dasari S, Kim-Schulze S, Rahman A, Patton J, Fiala M, Cheloni G, Kourelis T, Dhodapkar MV, Vij R, Mehr S, Hamilton M, Cho HJ, Auclair D, Avigan DE, Kumar SK, Gnjatic S, Ding L, Bhasin M. 2023 Cross center single-cell RNA sequencing study of the immune microenvironment in rapid progressing multiple myeloma. NPJ Genom Med, 8(1):3. PMCID: PMC9879959

Cui Zhou D, Jayasinghe RG, Chen S, Herndon JM, Iglesia MD, Navale P, Wendl MC, Caravan W, Sato K, Storrs E, Mo CK, Liu J, Southard-Smith AN, Wu Y, Naser Al Deen N, Baer JM, Fulton RS, Wyczalkowski MA, Liu R, Fronick CC, Fulton LA, Shinkle A, Thammavong L, Zhu H, Sun H, Wang LB, Li Y, Zuo C, McMichael JF, Davies SR, Appelbaum EL, Robbins KJ, Chasnoff SE, Yang X, Reeb AN, Oh C, Serasanambati M, Lal P, Varghese R, Mashl JR, Ponce J, Terekhanova NV, Yao L, Wang F, Chen L, Schnaubelt M, Lu RJ, Schwarz JK, Puram SV, Kim AH, Song SK, Shoghi KI, Lau KS, Ju T, Chen K, Chatterjee D, Hawkins WG, Zhang H, Achilefu S, Chheda MG, Oh ST, Gillanders WE, Chen F, DeNardo DG, Fields RC, Ding L. 2022 Spatially restricted drivers and transitional cell populations cooperate with the microenvironment in untreated and chemo-resistant pancreatic cancer. Nat Genet, 54(9):1390-1405. PMCID: PMC9470535

Storrs EP, Zhou DC, Wendl MC, Wyczalkowski MA, Karpova A, Wang LB, Li Y, Southard-Smith A, Jayasinghe RG, Yao L, Liu R, Wu Y, Terekhanova NV, Zhu H, Herndon JM, Puram S, Chen F, Gillanders WE, Fields RC, Ding L. 2022 Pollock: fishing for cell states. Bioinform Adv, 2(1)::vbac028. PMCID: PMC9115775

Liu R, Gao Q, Foltz SM, Fowles JS, Yao L, Wang JT, Cao S, Sun H, Wendl MC, Sethuraman S, Weerasinghe A, Rettig MP, Storrs EP, Yoon CJ, Wyczalkowski MA, McMichael JF, Kohnen DR, King J, Goldsmith SR, O’Neal J, Fulton RS, Fronick CC, Ley TJ, Jayasinghe RG, Fiala MA, Oh ST, DiPersio JF, Vij R, Ding L. 2021 Co-evolution of tumor and immune cells during progression of multiple myeloma. Nat Commun, 12(1):2559. PMCID: PMC8105337

Naser FJ, Jackstadt MM, Fowle-Grider R, Spalding JL, Cho K, Stancliffe E, Doonan SR, Kramer ET, Yao L, Krasnick B, Ding L, Fields RC, Kaufman CK, Shriver LP, Johnson SL, Patti GJ. 2021 Isotope tracing in adult zebrafish reveals alanine cycling between melanoma and liver. Cell Metab, 33(7):1493-1504.e5. PMCID:

Foltz SM, Gao Q, Yoon CJ, Sun H, Yao L, Li Y, Jayasinghe RG, Cao S, King J, Kohnen DR, Fiala MA, Ding L, Vij R. 2020 Evolution and structure of clinically relevant gene fusions in multiple myeloma. Nat Commun, 11(1):2666. PMCID: PMC7260243