Wentao Yang

Short CV

• Since 2013: PhD student, Kiel, Germany
• 2011-2013: Bioinformatician at Ruijin Hospital, Medical School of Shanghai Jiaotong University
• 2008-2010: Master in Genetics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
• 2003-2007: Studies in Biology, Lanzhou University, China

Research projects and interests

• PhD topic: Transcriptome data analysis of C. elegans on immune response and co-evolution
• Interests: Mathematics, Bioinformatics

Previous publications

• Yang W, Dierking K, Schulenburg H (2015) WormExp: a web-based application for a Caenorhabditis elegans-specific gene expression enrichment analysis. Bioinformatics in press.
• Pees B, Yang W, Zarate-Potes A, Schulenburg H, Dierking K (2015) High innate immune specificity through diversification of C type lectin-like domain proteins in invertebrates. J. Innate Immunity in press.
• Yang W, Dierking K, Esser D, Tholey A, Leippe M, et al. (2015) Overlapping and unique signatures in the proteomic and transcriptomic responses of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans toward pathogenic Bacillus thuringiensis. Developmental & Comparative Immunology 51: 1-9.
• Volkers RM, Snoek LB, Van Hellenberg Hubar CJV, Coopman R, Chen W, Yang W, Sterken MG, Schulenburg H, Braeckman BP, Kammenga JE (2013) Gene-environment and protein degradation signatures characterize genomic and phenotypic diversity in wild Caenorhabditis elegans populations. BMC Biol. 11:93.
• Zhang H, Mi J, Fang H, Wang Z, Wang C, Wu L, Zhang B, Minden M, Yang W, Wang H, Li J, Xi X, Chen S, Zhang J, Chen Z, Wang K(2013). Preferential eradication of acute myelogenous leukemia stem cells by fenretinide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, 5606-5611.
• Shi J, Yang W, Chen M, Du Y, Zhang J, Wang K: AMD, an automated motif discovery tool using stepwise refinement of gapped consensuses. PLoS One 2011, 6(9):e24576.