Wei Yan (biologist)

Wei Yan is a Chinese physiologist and molecular and cellular biologist, currently Professor at University of Nevada, Reno, United States[1] and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[2] He currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Biology of Reproduction.

The native form of this personal name is Yan Wei. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Education

He earned his M.D. at China Medical University in 1990 and his Ph.D at University of Turku in 2000.[3]

Research

His interests are system physiology, embryology, histology, gross anatomy and biology.[3] His highest cited paper is Tissue-dependent paired expression of miRNAs,[4] according to Google Scholar.[5]

Publications
  • Zheng H, Stratton CJ, Morozumi K, Jin J, Yanagimachi R, Yan W (2007) Lack of Spem1 causes aberrant cytoplasm removal, sperm deformation and male infertility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104:6852-6857
  • Ro S, Park C, Young D, Sanders KM, Yan W (2007) Tissue-dependent paired expression of miRNAs. Nucleic Acids Research 35:5944-5953
  • Ro S, Park C, Young D, Sanders KM, McCarrey JR, Yan W (2007) Cloning and expression profiling of testis-expressed microRNAs Developmental Biology 311: 592-602
  • Song R, Michaels JD, Ro S, McCarrey JR, Yan W (2009) X-linked microRNAs escape meiotic sex chromosome inactivation. Nature Genetics 41:488-493
  • Song R, Hennig G, Wu Q, Jose C, Zheng H, Yan W (2011) Male germ cells express abundant endogenous siRNAs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 108:13159-64.

References
  1. "Wei Yan". unr.edu. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  2. "Two faculty members named AAAS Fellows". unr.edu. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
  3. "Wei Yan". unr.edu. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  4. Seungil Ro, Chanjae Park, David Young, Kenton M Sanders, Wei Yan. Tissue-dependent paired expression of miRNAs. 35:17. 5944-5953. Oxford University Press. 2007
  5. "Wei Yan". scholar.google.com. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
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