Principal Investigator

Dr. Yu Tang

Contact Address: No. 699 Binhu Road, Fangzi District, Weifang, Shandong, China

Email: yu.tang@pku-iaas.edu.cn

Education

Aug. 2012 -Jul. 2017   Ph.D. in Cell Biology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University

Aug. 2008 -Jul. 2012   B.S. in Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Shandong Agricultural University

Working Experience

Nov. 2019 – Apr. 2023   Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Sep. 2017- Oct. 2019    Post-Doctoral Research Associate, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University

PUBLICATIONS:

Yu Tang, Xiangyun Yang, Aobo Huang, Kyungyong Seong, … …, Yangnan Gu ^*. 2024. Proxiome assembly of the plant nuclear pore reveals an essential hub for gene expression regulation. Nature Plants. https:// doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01698-9.

Yu Tang^*. 2023. Plant nuclear envelopes as a hub connecting genome organization with regulation of gene expression. The Nucleus. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491034.2023.2178201.

Yu Tang, Man Ip Ho, Byung-Ho Kang and Yangnan Gu^*. 2022. GBPL3 localizes to the nuclear pore complex and functionally connects the nuclear basket with the nucleoskeleton in plants. PLoS Biology 20:10 3001831.

Yuejuan Zeng, Yu Tang, Simin Shen, Man Zhang, … …, Xueqin Zhang^*. 2022. Plant-specific small peptide AtZSP1 interacts with ROCK1 to regulate organ size in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist 5: 1696-1713.

Yu Tang, Qianli Dong, Tianya Wang, Lei Gong, and Yangnan Gu^*. 2022. PNET2 is a component of the plant nuclear lamina and is required for proper genome organization and activity. Developmental Cell 57: 19-31.

Min Jia, Xueqi Shen, Yu Tang, Xuetao Shi, Yangnan Gu^*. 2021. A karyopherin constrains nuclear activity of the NLR protein SNC1 and is essential to prevent autoimmunity in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant 14: 1733-1744.

Feifei Xu, Min Jia, Xin Li, Yu Tang, K. Jiang, J. Bao, Yangnan Gu^*. 2021. Exportin-4 coordinates nuclear shuttling of TOPLESS family transcription corepressors to regulate plant immunity. Plant Cell 33: 697-713.

Aobo Huang, Yu Tang, Xuetao Shi, Min Jia, … …, Yangnan Gu^*. 2020. Proximity labeling proteomics reveals critical regulators for inner nuclear membrane protein degradation in plants. Nature Communications 11, 1-10.

Yu Tang, Aobo Huang, and Yangnan Gu^*. (2020). Global profiling of plant nuclear membrane proteome in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants 6, 838-847.

Research Projects

Understanding of the protein landscape of nuclear envelope (NE) in different plant species

Functional characterization of newly identified plant NE and nuclear pore complex (NPC) components

Honorables and Awards

2023  National Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

2023  Taishan Scholars Program

2018   Tsinghua Postdoc fellowship