Qiong Yang
Associate Professor of Biophysics
Associate Professor of Physics
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
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Available to mentor
Qiong Yang
Associate Professor
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    BIO:
    Qiong Yang is an Associate Professor of Biophysics at the University of Michigan (UM) in Ann Arbor. She received a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 2009 and was a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University before joining UM in 2014. She has received awards including NSF CAREER, NIH MIRA, Sloan Fellowship, Elizabeth C. Crosby Award, and Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award. The Yang Lab is affiliated with the departments of Physics, Applied Physics, BME, Complex Systems, CMB, CDB, and Bioinformatics. Her research group bridges Biophysics with Quantitative Systems & Synthetic Biology and Mechanobiology to pursue a comprehensive understanding of stochastic cellular and developmental processes in early embryos including Xenopus and zebrafish.

    We are recruiting! We warmly welcome interested individuals at all levels to check out our lab web pages (https://websites.umich.edu/~qiongy/) and contact us via [email protected] to learn more.

    https://websites.umich.edu/~qiongy/

    Qualifications
    • Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow
      Stanford University, Chemical and Systems Biology
    • PhD
      Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
    Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Spatial heterogeneity accelerates phase-to-trigger wave transitions in frog egg extracts.
      Puls O, Ruiz-Reynés D, Tavella F, Jin M, Kim Y, Gelens L, Yang Q. Nat Commun, 2024 Dec 2; 15 (1): 10455 DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-54752-7
      PMID: 39622792
    • Journal Article
      A human pluripotent stem cell-based somitogenesis model using microfluidics.
      Liu Y, Kim YS, Xue X, Miao Y, Kobayashi N, Sun S, Yan RZ, Yang Q, Pourquié O, Fu J. Cell Stem Cell, 2024 Aug 1; 31 (8): 1113 - 1126.e6. DOI:10.1016/j.stem.2024.06.004
      PMID: 38981471
    • Journal Article
      Comprehensive Parameter Space Mapping of Cell Cycle Dynamics under Network Perturbations.
      Li Z, Wang S, Sun M, Jin M, Khain D, Yang Q. ACS Synth Biol, 2024 Mar 15; 13 (3): 804 - 815. DOI:10.1021/acssynbio.3c00631
      PMID: 38420905
    • Journal Article
      Nuclear-cytoplasmic compartmentalization of cyclin B1-Cdk1 promotes robust timing of mitotic events.
      Maryu G, Yang Q. Cell Rep, 2022 Dec 27; 41 (13): 111870 DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111870
      PMID: 36577372
    • Journal Article
      In vitro cell cycle oscillations exhibit a robust and hysteretic response to changes in cytoplasmic density.
      Jin M, Tavella F, Wang S, Yang Q. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Feb 8; 119 (6): DOI:10.1073/pnas.2109547119
      PMID: 35101974
    • Journal Article
      Monitoring Spontaneous Quiescence and Asynchronous Proliferation-Quiescence Decisions in Prostate Cancer Cells.
      Pulianmackal AJ, Sun D, Yumoto K, Li Z, Chen Y-C, Patel MV, Wang Y, Yoon E, Pearson A, Yang Q, Taichman R, Cackowski FC, Buttitta LA. Front Cell Dev Biol, 2021 9: 728663 DOI:10.3389/fcell.2021.728663
      PMID: 34957090
    • Journal Article
      Engineering spatiotemporal organization and dynamics in synthetic cells.
      Groaz A, Moghimianavval H, Tavella F, Giessen TW, Vecchiarelli AG, Yang Q, Liu AP. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Nanomed Nanobiotechnol, 2021 May; 13 (3): e1685 DOI:10.1002/wnan.1685
      PMID: 33219745
    • Journal Article
      Plug-in tubes allow tunable oil removal, droplet packing, and reaction incubation for time-controlled droplet-based assays.
      Sun M, Maryu G, Wang S, Yang Q, Bailey RC. Biomicrofluidics, 2021 Mar; 15 (2): 024108 DOI:10.1063/5.0047924
      PMID: 33841602