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Guang Yang

Lieber Institute for Brain Development

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Aiguo Xia

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Hypothalamic Cell Type Evolution across Vertebrates

Yunming Wu, Prateek R Kalakuntla, Billie C. Goolsby, Yanay Rosen, Alyssa Hayashi, Guang Yang, Chew Chai, Heidi M. Tate, Tom Hindmarsh Sten, Jessica P. Nowicki, Lindsay L. Sailer, Jun Hyuk Song, Jaeyoon Lee, Robert C. Jones, Dong‐Wook Kim, , Liqun Luo

This study identifies conserved and clade-specific hypothalamic cell types across vertebrates using single-cell transcriptomics, revealing conserved transcription factors and rewired regulatory linkages.

bioRxiv · Aug 26, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

The immunogenomic landscape of cattle

Tingting Li, Tian Xia, Jiaqi Wu, Hao Hong, Zhao-Lin Sun, Ming Wang, Fang-Rong Ding, Jing Wang, Shuai Jiang, Jin Li, Jie Pan, Guang Yang, Jiannan Feng, Yunping Dai, Xuemin Zhang, , Tao Li

This paper presents a high-quality cattle genome assembly with improved continuity and completeness, revealing the highest known immune gene diversity in mammals.

bioRxiv · May 31, 2022 · PreprintGenomics

Childhood urbanization affects prefrontal cortical responses to trait anxiety and interacts with polygenic risk for depression

Xiao Zhang, Hao Yan, Hao Yu, Xin Zhao, Shefali Shah, Zheng Dong, Guang Yang, Xiaoxi Zhang, Timothy Muse, Jing Li, Sisi Jiang, Jinmin Liao, Yuyanan Zhang, Qiang Chen, Daniel R. Weinberger, , Hao Yang Tan

The paper examines how childhood urbanization affects prefrontal cortical responses to trait anxiety and interacts with polygenic depression risk in a genetically homogeneous population.

bioRxiv · Jun 4, 2019 · PreprintNeuroscience

Optogenetics reprogramming of planktonic cells for biofilm formation

Aiguo Xia, Shuai Yang, Yajia Huang, Zhenyu Jin, Lei Ni, Lu Pu, Guang Yang, Fan Jin

This study develops ATI, a method to control biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by manipulating single-cell behaviors through optogenetics and tracking.

bioRxiv · Dec 4, 2017 · PreprintMicrobiology