Yang Liang, professor of the School of Medicine Southern University of Science and Technology. Dr. Yang obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Nankai University in 2004, and Ph.D., from Technical University of Denmark in 2009. Dr. Yang joined the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as Assistant Professor from 2012, and obtained tenure (Associate Professor) in 2018. Dr. Yang was nominated as Assistant Dean of the School of Biological Sciences, and Deputy Research Director of Public Health & Medical Biofilms in Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE). Dr. Yang joined the School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology as a full-time professor at the end of 2018. He was granted the Guangdong Outstanding Youth Fund, the Oversea High-Caliber Personnel (Level B) of Shenzhen, and was experted of the Ministry of Education.
Dr. Yang is currently in charge of 3 core teaching courses: "Medical Microbiology (Undergraduate)", "Medical Microbiology Experiment (Undergraduate)" and "Microbial Technology (Graduate)" at Southern University of Science and Technology.
Microbiology, infection, epidemiology, resistance gene transmission, biofilm, quorum sensing, drug development
2000-2004 B.S., Nankai University
2004-2006 M.S., Danish Technical University
2006-2009 Ph.D., Technical University of Denmark
2009-2010 Postdoctoral, Danish Technical University
2011-2012 Postdoctoral, University of Hamburg (Germany)
2012 / 02-2012 / 06 Postdoctoral, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
2012 / 07-2018 / 02 Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Assistant Professor
2018 / 03-2018 / 09 Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Associate Professor
2018 / 10-present Professor of Southern University of Science and Technology
2007 American Microbiological Society Student Conference Travel Award
2010 Danish Medical Research Council Independent Postdoctoral Fund
2011 Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship, Germany
2011 FEMS Conference Young Scientist Travel Award
2012 Nanyang Assistant Professor Award, Singapore
2018 Tenure at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2019 Shenzhen Peacock Talent Class B
2019 Young Yangtze River Scholars
2020 Guangdong Outstanding Youth Fund
2007-present: Member of American Society of Microbiology
2017-present: Member of International Society for Chemical Biology
2018-present: Editorial member of Biofilm (ISSN: 2590-2075).
2017- 2019: Editorial board member of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (Print ISSN: 0099-2240; Online ISSN: 1098-5336)
2015- 2016: Editorial Board of "New Horizons in Translational Medicine" (Official Journal of the European Society of Translational Medicine)
Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Reports, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Medicinal Research Reviews, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, PNAS, ISME J, Scientific Reports, BMC Microbiology, PLoS Pathogens, PLoS one, Reviewers in Trends in Biotechnology, Molecular Systems Biology, Current Opinion in Microbiology, Journal of Biochemistry, Chemical Communications, Water Research, ACS Chemical Biology, etc.
1.Dispersed cells represent a distinct stage in the transition from bacterial biofilm to planktonic lifestyles. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 2014
2.In vitro and in vivo generation and characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm–dispersed cells via c-di-GMP manipulation. Nature Protocols 2015
3.Selective labelling and eradication of antibiotictolerant bacterial populations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 2016
4.A cyclic di-GMP-binding adaptor protein interacts with a chemotaxis methyltransferase to control flagellar motor switching. SCIENCE SIGNALING 2016
5.Ribosome protection by antibiotic resistance ATP-binding cassette protein. PNAS 2018
