About me

Born and raised in Chengdu, I received my bachelor’s degree with honors from Nankai in 2023. I was a visiting scholar at UCSF and a research assistant at Tsinghua.

My research interests now mainly lie in functional & computational genomics, as well as neurological disorders.

Education

Ph.D. Student

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Cornell University, 2024-Present

B.S. Biological Science (w/ Honors)

Advisor: Prof. Xinglu Huang

Nankai University, 2018-2023

Experience

Research Assistant

National Engineering Lab for Neuromodulation

Advisor: Prof. Yanan Sui

Tsinghua University, 2022-2023

Visiting Scholar

Institute for Human Genetics

Advisor: Prof. Yin Shen

UCSF, 2021-2022

Intern

National Engineering Lab for Neuromodulation

Tsinghua University, 2021

Publications

Also see my Google Scholar Profile.

	MYC phase separation selectively modulates the transcriptome Yang, J.*, Chung, C.*, Koach, J., Liu, H., ... , Shu, X.# Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2024 [Paper]
	Phase separation of YAP-MAML2 differentially regulates the transcriptome Chung, C., Yang, J., Yang X., Liu, H., ... Shen, Y., Shu, X.# PNAS, 2024 [Paper]
	Genetically encoded chemical crosslinking of RNA in vivo Sun, W.*, Wang, N.*, Liu, H., Yu, H., ... Shen, Y., Wang, L.# Nature Chemistry, 2023 [Paper] [GitHub] [NCBI SRA]
	Functional Characterization of Alzheimer’s Disease Genetic Variants in Microglia Yang, X., Wen, J., Yang, H., Jones, I., ... , Liu, H., ... & Shen, Y.# Nature Genetics, 2023 [Paper]
	Prediction and Design of Nanozymes Using Explainable Machine Learning Wei, Y., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Liu, H., ... , Huang, X.# Advanced Materials, 2022 [Paper]
	Bioorthogonal catalytic nanozyme-mediated lysosomal membrane leakage for targeted drug delivery Sun, Z., Liu, Q., Wang, X., Wu, J., ... , Liu, H., ... & Huang, X.# Theranostics, 2022 [Paper]

Awards

• Ray Wu Graduate Fellowship, MBG, Cornell University
• Poling Honors Degree, Nankai University
• Scholarship of Academic Progress, Nankai University

Technical Skills

Programming & Libraries

Software

Systems