Title: Prof. Ruolin Yang

　　Contact Information:

　　College of Life Sciences

　　Northwest A&F University

　　Yangling, Shaanxi 712100 P. R. China

　　E-mail: yang_ruolin AT hotmail.com

　　Office: North Campus, Science Building, College of Life Sciences, D407

　　Research Interests:

　　1. Mechanisms and evolutionary origin of gene imprinting

　　2. Systems biology (noise utilization and management)

　　3. Adaptive evolution of alternative splicing

　　4. Convergent evolution of genes

　　5. EAC model for RNAs

　　6. Text mining and biological data integration

　　7. Evolutionary dynamics of chromosomes

　　8. High-order architecture of chromosome

　　9. Comparative epigenomics

　　Education Experiences:

　　Lanzhou University, China 1995-1999B.S. Biochemistry

　　Lanzhou University, China 1999-2002M.S. Cell Biology

　　Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2005-2008Ph.D. Zoology

　　Professional Experiences:

　　Professor in College of Life Science, Norwest A&F University (2014-present)

　　Postdoctoral research associate, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, USA (2011-2014)

　　Postdoctoral, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009-2011)

　　Teaching assistant, Shanghai University (2002-2005)

　　Honors and Awards:

　    Shaanxi Province Talent Plan

　　Representative publications:

　　Xin M*, Yang R*, Yao Y, Ma C, Peng H, Sun Q, Wang X, Ni Z. (2014) Dynamic parent-of-origin effects on small interfering RNA expression in the developing maize endosperm. BMC Plant Biology. (*: equal contribution)

　　Li G*, Wang D*, Yang R*, Logan K, Chen H, Zhang S, Skaggs MI, Lloyd A, Burnett WJ, Laurie JD, Hunter BG, Dannenhoffer JM, Larkins BA, Drews GN, Wang X, Yadegari R. (2014) Temporal patterns of gene expression in developing maize endosperm identified through transcriptome sequencing. PNAS. (*: equal contribution)

　　Xin M*, Yang R*, Li G, Chen H, Laurie J, Ma C, Wang D, Yao Y, Larkins BA, Sun Q, Yadegari R, Wang X, Ni Z. (2013) Dynamic Expression of Imprinted Genes Associates with Maternally Controlled Nutrient Allocation during Maize Endosperm Development. Plant Cell. (*: equal contribution)

　　Yang R*, Jarvis DE*, Chen H, Beilstein MA, Grimwood J, Jenkins J, Shu S, Prochnik S, Xin M, Ma C, Schmutz J, Wing RA, Mitchell-Olds T, Schumaker KS, Wang X. (2013) The Reference Genome of the Halophytic Plant Eutremasalsugineum. Frontiers Plant Sciences. (*: equal contribution)

　　Yang R, Wang X. (2013) Organ evolution in angiosperms driven by correlated divergences of gene sequences and expression patterns. Plant Cell

　　Yang R, Dai Z, Chen S, Chen L. (2011) MicroRNA-mediated gene regulation plays a minor role in the transcriptomic plasticity of cold-acclimated zebrafish brain tissue. BMC Genomics.

　　Yang R, Su B. (2010) Characterization and comparison of the tissue-related modules in human and mouse. PLoS ONE.

　　Han L*, Yang R*, Su B, Zhao Z. (2008) An SVM-based algorithm for classifying promoter-associated CpG islands in the human and mouse genomes. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). 5227: 975-81. (*: equal contribution)

　　Yang R, Su B. (2009) Modular organization in a cell: concepts and applications. Current Bioinformatics.