Yawei Wu

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Barak A. Cohen, PhD

Undergraduate university: China University of Science and Technology, 2019

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary
Understanding determinants of long-range enhancer-promoter interactions

Graduate publications
Friedman RZ, Ramu A, Lichtarge S, Wu Y, Tripp L, Lyon D, Myers CA, Granas DM, Gause M, Corbo JC, Cohen BA, White MA. 2024 Active learning of enhancers and silencers in the developing neural retina. Cell Syst, 16(1):101163. PMCID:

Hong CKY, Wu Y, Erickson AA, Li J, Federico AJ, Cohen BA. 2024 Massively parallel characterization of insulator activity across the genome. Nat Commun, 15(1):8350. PMCID: PMC11436800

Loell K, Wu Y, Staller MV, Cohen B. 2022 Activation domains can decouple the mean and noise of gene expression. Cell Rep, 40(3):111118. PMCID: PMC9912357