Fang YangDepartment of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina State University, USA
Biography
Dr. Yang received a Ph.D. degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. After completion of her Ph.D. degree, she worked for Bioinformatics Resource Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Data Analyst. Dr. Yang has research experiences in animal sciences, nutrition, proteomics, metagenomics, and phylogenetics. Dr. Yang also has the expertise to leverage various bioinformatics methodologies and tools, programming languages, Linux shell scripts, and high-performance computing systems to analyze DNA and RNA sequencing data. Dr. Yang currently works for the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at the North Carolina State University as a Research Associate and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Archives of Clinical Microbiology, Journal of Archives of Infectious Diseases & Therapy, and Journal of Next Generation Sequencing and Applications. Dr. Yang is establishing associations between the gut microbiome and vaccine efficacy.
Research Interest
Microbiology, Microbiome, Metagenome, Metatranscriptome, Diseases, Nutrition, Bioinformatics, Phylogenetics, and proteomics