Areas of Focus
- Barrier Immunity
Work Experience
- 2019 – Present - Fudan University - Junior Researcher and Doctoral Supervisor
- 2014 – 2019 - Rockefeller University - Postdoctoral Researcher/Helen Hay Whitney Fellow
- 2014 – 2014 - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Senior Research Assistant
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2008/07 – 2014/08 PhD in Biomedical Science/Immunology: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- 2005/08 – 2008/05 Master's in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology: Iowa State University
- 2001/09 – 2005/07 Bachelor's in Biology: Fudan University
Publications
- TH17 Cell Differentiation Is Regulated by the Circadian Clock, Yu, X., Rollins, D., Ruhn, K.A., Stubblefield, J.J., Green, C.B., Kashiwada, M., Rothman, P.B., Takahashi, J.S., and Hooper, L.V., 2013
- The basic leucine zipper transcription factor NFIL3 directs the development of a common innate lymphoid cell precursor, Yu, X., Wang, Y., Deng, M., Li, Y., Ruhn, K. A., Zhang, C. C., and Hooper, L. V., 2014
- A brassinosteroid transcriptional network revealed by genome-wide identification of BES1 target genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, Yu, X., Li, L., Zola, J., Aluru, M., Ye, H., Foudree, A., Guo, H., Anderson, S., Aluru, S., Liu, P., Rodermel, S., and Yin Y., 2011
- Modulation of brassinosteroid-regulated gene expression by Jumonji domain-containing proteins ELF6 and REF6 in Arabidopsis, Yu, X., Li, L., Guo, M., Chory, J., and Yin, Y., 2008