Education:

Ph.D., Physics, Peking University;

B.Sc., Biology, Liaocheng University

Research interests:

System Biology,

Synthetic Biology

Cell cycle regulation,

Cell decision making,

Academic experiences:

2013-present   Research associate, Research assistant, Peking University

2010-2013      Postdoctoral Research fellow, UCSF

2006-2010      UCSF-PKU exchange program, visiting scholar, UCSF

Selected publications:

 Qi Liu, Nan Sheng, Zhiwen Zhang, Chenjun He, Yao Zhao, Haoyuan Sun, Jianguo Chen, Xiaojing Yang*, Chao Tang*. Initial nutrient condition determines the recovery speed of quiescent cells in fission yeast. Heliyon. Feb 24;10(5): e26558. (2024)

Zhi Sun#, Ning Yang#, Chunbo Lou, Chao Tang*, Xiaojing Yang*. “Functional topology design and its applications in synthetic biology” Synthetic Biology Journal : 1-23, doi: 10.12211/2096-8280.2023-003. (Invited review)

Yuan Yuan, Huixia Ren, Yanjun Li, Shanshan Qin, Xiaojing Yang*, Chao Tang*,“Cell-to-cell variability in inducible Caspase9-mediated cell death”. Cell death & disease, 13, no. 1 (2022): 1-11.

 Zhi Sun#, Weijia Wei#, Mingyue Zhang#, Wenjia Shi, Yeqing Zong, Yihua Chen, Xiaojing Yang, Bo Yu*, Chao Tang*, Chunbo Lou*, “Robust perfect adaptation achieved by negative feedback coupling with linear weak positive feedback”, Nucleic Acids Research, 50(4), (2022): 2377-2386.

Huixia Ren#, Yanjun Li#, Chengsheng Han#, Yi Yu, Bowen Shi, Xiaohong Peng, Shufang Wu, Wenzhen Zhu, Guoyi Yang, Xiaojing Yang, Kim Sneppen, Liangyi Chen*, Chao Tang*，“Pancreatic α and β cells are globally phase-locked“ Nature Communications 13, no. 1 (2022): 1-16.

Yimiao Qu, Jun Jiang, Xiaojing Yang*, Chao Tang *, “Protocol for titrating gene expression levels in budding yeast” STAR Protocols，1, 2:10082(2020)

Yimiao Qu#, Jun Jiang#, Xiang Liu#, Ping Wei, Xiaojing Yang*, and Chao Tang* “Cell Cycle Inhibitor Whi5 Records Environmental Information to Coordinate Growth and Division in Yeast”，Cell Reports，29, 987–994(2019).

Xin Wang#, Kang Xia#, Xiaojing Yang, and Chao Tang*, “Growth strategy of microbes on mixed carbon sources,” Nature Communications 10, 1279 (2019).

Zongmao Gao, Haoyuan Sun, Shanshan Qin, Xiaojing Yang*, Chao Tang*, “A systematic study of the determinants of protein abundance memory in cell lineage” Science Bulletin, 63(16), 1051-1058 (2018)

Xiaojing Yang, Kai-Yeung, Volkan Sevim, and Chao Tang*, “Design Principles of the Yeast G1/S Switch”. PLoS Biology. 4, e1001673 (2013).

Xiaojing Yang, Anna Payne-Tobin Jost, Orion D Weiner*, and Chao Tang*, A light-inducible organelle-targeting system for dynamically activating and inactivating signaling in budding yeast. Mol. Biol. Cell 24:2419–2430 (2013).