Areas of Focus
- Molecular regulation mechanisms of early vertebrate development
- Cellular and molecular basis of melanoma metastasis
Academic Background & Achievements
- Bachelor and Master: Northwest Normal University
- PhD: University of Essen, Germany
- Recognized as a leading talent in Guangdong Province's Special Support Plan
Publications
- Activation of P53 pathway contributes to Xenopus hybrid inviability, Shi, Z., Liu, G., Jiang, H., Shi, S., Zhang, X., Deng, Y., and Chen, Y*., 2023
- Evolutionarily distinct and sperm-specific supersized chromatin loops are marked by Helitron transposons in Xenopus tropicalis, Shi, Z., Xu, J., Niu, L., Shen, W., Yan, S., Tan, Y., Quan, X., Cheung, E., Huang, K*., Chen, Y*., Li, L*., and Hou, C*., 2023
- Three-dimensional folding dynamics of the Xenopus tropicalis genome, Niu, L., Shen, W., Shi, Z., Tan, Y., He, N., Wan, J., Sun, J., Zhang, Y., Huang, Y., Wang, W., Fang, C., Li, J., Zheng, P., Cheung, E*., Chen, Y*., Li, L*., Hou, C*., 2021
- Homeoprotein hhex-induced conversion of intestinal to ventral pancreatic precursors results in the formation of giant pancreata in Xenopus embryos, Zhao, H., Han, D., Dawid, I.B.*, Pieler, T.*, and Chen, Y*., 2012
- Efficient targeted gene disruption in Xenopus embryos using engineered transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), Lei, Y., Guo, X., Liu, Y., Cao, Y., Deng, Y., Chen, X., Cheng, C.H.*, Dawid, I.B.*, Chen, Y*., Zhao, H*., 2012