个人简历

1995.9-1999.6，中国农业大学理学学士学位

1999.9-2002.7，中国农业大学理学硕士学位

2003.9-2009.12，加拿大University of British Columbia博士学位

2010.4-2017.9，美国University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center，博士后、讲师

2017.10-，bv伟德国际体育官方网站生命科学中心，研究员

主要研究方向

结合生物信息学和生化分子生物学，研究表观遗传和转录调控，专注于下列两个方面问题：

1，DNA甲基化等表观遗传修饰的发生和调控机制，以及在发育和疾病中起着关键的作用。

2，密码子偏好性对于基因在转录和翻译层面的调控，为同义突变引起的疾病提供理论基础。

招生硕士点专业方向：生物化学与分子生物学

研究组成员：

助理研究员 任桂萍 博士

硕士研究生 董璎莹 李湛彪 刘锐

联系方式： ykdang@ynu.edu.cn

发表论文

#共同第一作者；*通讯作者

1. Qian Yang, Chien-Hong Yu, Fangzhou Zhao, Yunkun Dang, Cheng Wu, Pancheng Xie, Matthew S. Sachs, Yi Liu, eRF1 mediates codon usage effects on mRNA translation efficiency through premature termination at rare codons. Nucleic Acid Research (2019): DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz710

2. 任桂萍, 董璎莹, 党云琨. 密码子中的密码: 密码子偏好性与基因表达的精细调控. 中国科学: 生命科学, (2019) 49: 1–9

3. Jingjing Fu,Yunkun Dang, Christopher Counter, Yi Liu, Codon usage regulates human KRAS expression at both transcriptional and translational levels. Journal of Biological Chemistry, (2018) DOI：10.1074/jbc.RA118.004908

4. Zhipeng Zhou#, Yunkun Dang#*, Mian Zhou, Haiyan Yuan, Yi Liu*, Codon usage biases co-evolve with transcription termination machinery to suppress premature cleavage and polyadenylation. ELife (2018) 7:e33569

5. Xiao Liu,Yunkun Dang, Toru Matsu-ura, Yubo He, Qun He, Christian I. Hong, Yi Liu, DNA Replication Is Required for Circadian Clock Function by Regulating Rhythmic Nucleosome Composition. Molecular Cell (2017) 67:1-11

6. Yunkun Dang#, Jiasen Cheng# , Xianyun Sun, Zhipeng Zhou, Yi Liu. Antisense transcription licenses nascent transcripts to be recognized by ERI-1 to mediate transcriptional gene silencing. Genes & Development, (2016) 30:2417-32.

7. Zhipeng Zhou#, Yunkun Dang#, Mian Zhou, Lin Li, Chien-Hung Yu, Jingjing Fu, She Chen, and Yi Liu. Codon Usage is an Important Determinant of Gene Expression Levels Largely Through its Effects on Transcription. Proceedings of National Academy of Science of USA (2016) E6117-E6125.

8. Chien-hung Yu#, Yunkun Dang#, Zhipeng Zhou#, Cheng Wu, Fangzhou Zhao, Matthew S. Sashs, Yi Liu. Codon Usage Influences the Local Rate of Translation Elongation to Regulate Co-translational Protein Folding. Molecular Cell (2015) 59:744-54（封面文章，Trend Biochem Sci (2015) 40:717-8专评）

9. Yunkun Dang, Zhenyu Zhang, Yi Liu. Small RNA-mediated gene silencing in Neurospora. Fungal RNA Biology, page 269-89, Springer International Publishing (2014)   (book chapter)

10.Yunkun Dang, Liande Li, Wei Guo, Zhihong Xue, Yi Liu. Convergent transcription induces dynamic DNA methylation at disiRNA loci. PLoS Genetics (2013) 9(9): e1003761

11.Chang Ying Teng, Yunkun Dang, Jillian C. Danne, Ross F. Waller, Beverley R. Green. Genes of Dinoflagellates Are Transcribed by a Nuclear-Encoded Single-Subunit RNA Polymerase. PLoS One (2013) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065387

12.Yunkun Dang, Qiuying Yang, Zhihong Xue, Yi Liu. RNA interference in fungi: pathways, functions, and applications. Eukaryotic Cell (2011) 10: 1148-1155

13.Yunkun Dang, Beverley R. Green, Long transcripts from dinoflagellate chloroplast minicircles suggest "rolling circle" transcription. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2010) 285: 5196-5203.

14.Yunkun Dang, Beverley R. Green, Substitutional editing of Heterocapsa triquetra chloroplast transcripts and a folding model for its divergent chloroplast 16S rRNA. Gene (2009) 442:73-80