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
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.

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.

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.

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.