Dr. Yiru Wang
Dr. Yiru Wang
Scientist
Department of Microbial Biotechnology
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig
Tel: 0341 6025 2242
Fax: 0341 6025 2791
yiru.wang@ufz.de
CV / Scientific Career
2024 - present
Postdoctoral research: Structural Characterization of Cyanobacterial Biofilms in Microfluidic Systems for Biophotovoltaic Applications.
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany.
2020 - 2023
Postdoctoral research: Mechanistic understanding of histone modification and DNA methylation associated with longevity and mitochondrial stress.
German centre for neurodegenerative disease (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.
2015 - 2019
PhD research: Genetic variation associated with α-synuclein pathology in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherland.
Publications
Huang Y., Wang Y. A., van Sluijs, L., Vogels D. H. J., Chen Y., Tegelbeckers V. I. P., Schoonderwoerd S., Riksen J. A. G., Kammenga J. E., Harvey S. C., Sterken M. G. *, (2023); eQTL mapping in transgenic alpha-synuclein carrying Caenorhabditis elegans recombinant inbred lines. Human Molecular Genetics. 10.1093/hmg/ddae148
Jackson, J. ; Wischhof, L. ; Scifo, E. ; Pellizzer, A. ; Wang, Y. ; Piazzesi, A. ; Gentile, D. ; Siddig, S. ; Stork, M. ; Hopkins, C. E. ; Händler, K. ; Weis, J. ; Roos, A. ; Schultze, J. L. ; Nicotera, P. ; Ehninger, D. ; Bano, D. (2022); SGPL1 stimulates VPS39 recruitment to the mitochondria in MICU1 deficient cells. Molecular metabolism, 61, 101503, 10.1016/j.molmet.2022.101503
Piazzesi, A., Wang, Y. A., Jackson, J., Wischhof, L., Zeisler-Diehl, V., Scifo, E., Oganezova, I., Hoffmann, T., Martín, P. G., Bertan, F., Wrobel, C. J. J., Schroeder, F. C., Ehninger, D., Händler, K., Schultze, J. L., Schreiber, L., van Echten-Deckert, G., Nicotera, P., Bano, D. (2021); Lipid metabolism controls the threshold effect associated with longevity of mitochondrial mutants, EMBO Report, 10.15252/embr.202152606
Sterken M. E., van Sluijs, L, Wang, Y. A., Ritmahan W., Gultom M. L., Riksen A. G. J., Volkers, R. J.M., L. Snoek L. B., Pijlman G. P., Kammenga J. E. (2021); Punctuated Loci on Chromosome IV Determine Natural Variation in Orsay Virus Susceptibility of Caenorhabditis elegans Strains Bristol N2 and Hawaiian CB4856. ASM journals, Journal of Virology, Vol.95, No,12, https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.02430-20
Wang, Y. A., Snoek L. B., Sterken M. E., Riksen A. G. J., Stastna J. J., Kammenga, J.E. Harvey, S.C., (2019); Genetic background modifies phenotypic and transcriptional responses in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of α-synuclein toxicity, BMC Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5597-1
Wang, Y. A., Kammenga, J. E., Harvey, S.C., (2017); Genetic dissection of variation in complex traits of neurodegenerative diseases and its accessibility in model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, BMC Human Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40246-017-0108-4