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Home » Speakers » Nieng Yan

Nieng Yan

Tsinghua University

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Dr. Nieng Yan is a professor in the School of Medicine at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.  After finishing her bachelor’s degree at Tsinghua University, she joined Yigong Shi’s laboratory at Princeton University, where she completed her graduate and postdoctoral training.  During this time, she successfully solved the X-ray crystallography structure of several proteins involved in cell death, and started working on solving the structure of membrane proteins, a big challenge at the time.

 Currently, her laboratory uses a combination of structural biology and biochemistry to elucidate the mechanisms of substrate recognition and transport.  Her focus and determination helped her laboratory to be the first group to solve the crystal structure of glucose transporters.  Given her scientific contributions, she was selected as a HHMI International Early Career Scientist in 2012, and was awarded the Protein Science Young Investigator Award by the Protein Society and the Raymond & Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics in 2015.

Talks with this Speaker

Membrane Transport Proteins

Nieng Yan explores membrane transport proteins and the different mechanisms that cells have to exchange material with their environment. (Talk recorded in September 2016)

  • Part 1: Introduction to Membrane Transport Proteins
    Part 1: Introduction to Membrane Transport Proteins
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 33:41
  • Part 2: Alternating Access of the Glucose Transporter
    Part 2: Alternating Access of the Glucose Transporter
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 30:23

Membrane Transport Proteins (Mandarin)

Nieng Yan explores membrane transport proteins and the different mechanisms that cells have to exchange material with their environment. (Talk recorded in September 2016)

Nieng Yan
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 43:41

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