Yonghao Liang

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Ting Wang, PhD

Undergraduate university: China University of Science and Technology, 2019

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary
Focusing on 3D chromatin structure of cancer cell line

Focusing on 3D chromatin structure of cancer cell line.

Graduate publications
iang Y, Qu X, Shah NM, Wang T. 2024 Towards targeting transposable elements for cancer therapy. Nat Rev Cancer, 24(2):123-40

Liang Y, Wang T. 2024 LINE1 mediates long-range DNA interactions. Nat Genet, 56(7):1328-30. PMCID:

Shah NM, Jang HJ, Liang Y, Maeng JH, Tzeng SC, Wu A, Basri NL, Qu X, Fan C, Li A, Katz B, Li D, Xing X, Evans BS, Wang T. 2023 Pan-cancer analysis identifies tumor-specific antigens derived from transposable elements. Nat Genet, 55(4):631-39. PMCID:

Lawson HA, Liang Y, Wang T. 2023 Transposable elements in mammalian chromatin organization. Nat Rev Genet, 24(10):712-23