Education

1991, Northeast Normal University, Bachelor Degree in Science;

1994, Northeast Normal University, Master Degree in Genetics;

1997-2001, University of Cologne, Germany, Ph. D. degree in Genetics.

Professional Experience

1994-1997, Beijing Agricultural College, Teaching Genetics;

2002-2006, University of Massachussets Medical School, USA, Postdoctoral reseacher;

2007- present, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Associate Professor.

Research Area

1. Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism to study the molecular mechanisms of aging .

2. Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism to study the related genes of  stress response function and regulation mechanisms.

3.Using yeast and C. elegans as a model organism to study cell cycle regulation mechanisms.

Selected Publications

1. Wang, Y., Li, W-Z., Johnson A. E., Luo Z-Q., Sun X-L., Feoktistova A., McDonald W. H., McLeod I. , Yates III  J. R., Gould K. L., McCollum D., and Jin, Q-W. (2012) Dnt1 acts as a mitotic inhibitor of the spindle checkpoint protein dma1 in fission yeast. Mol. Biol. Cell 23(17):3348-3356.

2. Li, W-Z., Yu, Z-Y., Ma, P-F., Wang, Y., Jin, Q-W. (2010) A novel role of Dma1 in regulating forespore membrane assembly and sporulation in fission yeast. Mol. Biol. Cell 21(24):4349-4360.

3. Wang, Y., Oh, S. W., Deplancke, B., Luo, J., Walhout, A. J. M., Tissenbaum H. A. (2006) C. elegans14-3-3 proteins regulate life span and interact with SIR-2.1 and DAF-16/FOXO. Mech. Ageing. Dev. 127(9): 741-747.

4. Wang, Y., Tissenbaum, H. A. (2006) Overlapping and distinct functions for a Caenorhabditis elegans SIR2 and DAF-16/FOXO. Mech. Ageing. Dev. 127(1): 48-56.

5. Roig, C., Pozzi, C., Santi, L., Muller, J., Wang, Y., Stile, M.R., Rossini, L., Stanca, M., Salamini, F. (2004) Genetics of barley hooded suppression. Genetics. 167(1): 439-448.

6. Santi, L., Wang, Y., Stile, M.R., Berendzen, K., Wanke, D., Roig, C., Pozzi, C., Müller, K., Müller, J., Rohde, W., Salamini, F. (2003) The GA octodinucleotide repeat binding factor BBR participates in the transcriptional regulation of the homeobox gene Bkn3. Plant J. 34(6): 813-826.

7. Wang, Y. (2001) Expression analyses of barley Knox homeobox genes and characterization of putative upstream regulators of BKn3 (Barely Knox 3), the Hooded gene. Dissertation, Universität zu Köln. (http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de /volltexte /2003/ 606/pdf/11w1177.pdf)

8. Müller, J., Wang, Y., Franzen, R., Santi, L., Salamini, F. and Rohde, W. (2001) In vitro interaction between barley TALE homeodomain proteins suggest a role of protein-protein associations in the regulation of Knox gene function. Plant J. 27(1): 13-23.