Areas of Focus
- Crop carbon metabolism, water use, and growth modeling
- Improving crop photosynthesis efficiency
- Crop response to environmental changes
Work Experience
- 2024 – Present: Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University
- 2023 – 2024: Research Scientist, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2015 – 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2014 – 2015: Assistant Researcher, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2008 – 2014: PhD in Computational Biology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2010.9 - 2010.12: Exchange Student, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
- 2004 – 2008: Bachelor's in Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology of China
Publications
- Rethinking the potential productivity of crassulacean acid metabolism by integrating metabolic dynamics with shoot architecture, using the example of Agave tequilana., Wang Y, Smith JAC, Zhu X-G, Long SP., 2023
- Increased bundle sheath leakiness of CO2 during photosynthetic induction shows a lack of coordination between the C4 and C3 cycles., Wang Y, Stutz SS, Bernacchi, CJ, Boyd RA, Ort DR, LongSP., 2022
- A hybrid kinetic and constraint-based model of leaf metabolism allows detailed predictions of metabolic changes in different environments., Shameer S, Wang Y, Ratcliffe G, LongSP, Sweetlove LJ., 2022
- Toward a Dynamic Photosynthesis Model to Guide Yield Improvement in C4 Crops., Wang Y, Chan KX, Long SP., 2021
- Photosynthesis in the fleeting shadows: An overlooked opportunity for increasing crop productivity?, Wang Y, Burgess SJ, de Becker E, Long SP., 2020
- Combining gene network, metabolic, and leaf-level models show means to future-proof soybean photosynthesis under rising CO2., Kannan K, Wang Y, Lang M, Challa GS, Long SP, Marshall-Colon A., 2019
- Development of a three-dimensional ray-tracing model of sugarcane canopy photosynthesis and its application in assessing impacts of varied row spacing., Wang Y, Song Q, Jaiswal D, de Souza AP, Long SP, Zhu X-G., 2017
- Three distinct biochemical subtypes of C4 photosynthesis? – A modeling analysis., Wang Y, Bräutigam A, Weber APM, Zhu X-G., 2014
- Elements Required for an Efficient NADP-ME Type C4 Photosynthesis-- Exploration using a systems model of C4 photosynthesis., Wang Y, Long SP, Zhu X-G., 2014
Awards
- 2021: The Most Outstanding Original Article, The Plant Journal
