Location
BSRB Room 2037, 109 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2200
Phone
Primary Website
Spatial Systems Biology Lab (https://www.pathology.med.umich.edu/faculty/yangxa)
Biography
Additional Title(s)
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
- Member, Single Cell Spatial Analysis Program
Yang Xiao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Clinical
Laboratories at the University of Michigan Medical School and an Affiliate Faculty
Member in Biomedical Engineering, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. She is a molecular pathologist and bioengineer working to understand the cellular changes in cerebral microenvironments following traumatic brain injury. Dr. Xiao’s research integrates spatial transcriptomic, epigenomic, and proteomic data to build a cellular “Google Map” of the brain, and to uncover the gene regulatory control mechanisms involved in injury remodeling and mood disorders.
Dr. Xiao completed her undergraduate studies in Molecular Biology at McGill University in Canada, and conducted her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Yale University under the mentorship of Dr. Rong Fan. She carried out postdoctoral work in Systems Neuroscience and Gene Editing at Columbia University, working with Dr. Kam Leong.
Education
- Ph.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University 2013-2019 Ph.D. advisor: Rong Fan
- M.S., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, 2012-2013
- B.A. & Sc., McGill University 2009-2012
Research Interests
Dr. Xiao’s research focuses on single-cell and spatial biology, cellular and molecular
engineering, and systems biology in the context of understanding neurological
disorders, such as traumatic brain injury, psychiatric diseases, and brain cancer.
Research Areas:
Biomedical Artificial Intelligence & Computation
Micro-Nanotechnology & Molecular Engineering
Neural Engineering
Systems & Synthetic Biology
Publications
- See complete publication list at Google Scholar
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jR3IjEAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate