Jianrong Yang

Jianrong Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow

B.A., Applied Biotechnology & Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China 2006

Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China 2006

U-M affiliation
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Contact information

University of Michigan
1075 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734) 763-0514

Fax: (734) 763-0544
Email: yangjr@umich.edu

Fields of study
Evolutionary Genomics

Mentor

Jianzhi Zhang

Research interests
I’m interested in understanding genetic diseases, typically like cancer, in the way of Systems Biology, or evolutionary Biology.

Select publications

Xu T, Zhu Y, Wei QK, Yuan Y, Zhou F, Ge YY, Yang JR, Su H, Zhuang SM. A functional polymorphism in the miR-146a gene is associated with the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma. Carcinogenesis. 2008.

Su H, Yang JR, Xu T, Huang J, Xu L, Yuan Y, and Zhuang SM. MicroRNA-101, Down-Regulated in Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Promotes Apoptosis and Suppresses Tumorigenicity. Cancer Research 2009