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2023

• November 2 - Our manuscript entitled "An in vitro model of the macrophage-endothelial interface to characterize CAR T-cell induced cytokine storm" is published at Sci Rep.

• October 18 - Our manuscript entitled "KatG catalase deficiency confers bedaquiline hyper-susceptibility to isoniaizid resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis" is available as a preprint at bioRxiv.

• October 3 - Our manuscript entitled "YlaN is an iron(II) binding protein that functions to relieve Fur-mediated repression of gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus" is available as a preprint at bioRxiv.

• September 9 - Our administrative supplement to our grant "Bacterial and Host Heterogeneity in TB latency, persistence and progression" is funded by NIH / NIAID under award U19 AI162598!

• March 23 - Our collaborative work with NASA is now published at Nat Mach Intel:

  • Biological research and self-driving labs in deep space supported by artificial intelligence

  • ​Biomonitoring and precision health in deep space supported by artificial intelligence

 

2022

• December 21 - Our manuscript entitled "How can systems approaches help us understand and treat infectious disease?" is published at Cell Syst.

• November 18 - Our manuscript entitled "A comprehensive update to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv reference genome" is published at Nat Commun.

  • Press Releases: Rutgers University, EurekAlert, Phys.org, Front Line Genomics, Mirage News, News Medical life Sciences, ScienceDaily, Newswise, ScienMag, NewsAzi, Futurity, AZO Life Sciences

• July 25 - Barry Li passes his Ph.D. qualifying exam!

• July 18 - Our manuscript entitled "A comprehensive update to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv reference genome" is available as a preprint at bioRxiv.

• July 17 - Barry Li presents at the Microbial Stress Response Gordon Research Seminar.

• June 15 - Our manuscript entitled "Longitudinal Analysis of Biologic Correlates of COVID-19 Resolution: Case Report" is published at Front Med.

• June 10 - Yiqi Yan passes her Ph.D. qualifying exam!

• April 11 - Dr. Yang presents as the Keynote Speaker at the University of Illinois MicroERA Spring Symposium. 

• February 23 - Our manuscript entitled "CRISP(e)R drug discovery" is published at Nat Chem Biol.

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2021

• December 23 - Our collaborative work with NASA, from the NASA-sponsored "Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Modeling for Space Biology" is now available on arXiv:

  • ​Beyond Low Earth Orbit: Biological Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Self-Driving Labs

  • ​Beyond Low Earth Orbit: Biomonitoring, Artificial Intelligence, and Precision Space Health

• December 14 - Avi Shah is admitted to the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School M.D./Ph.D. program!

• December 8 - Dr. Yang presents as a Keynote Speaker at the Theobald Smith Society's Fall 2021 Symposium. 

• November 8 - Dr. Yang participates as a "Artificial Intelligence for Antibiotics" panelist at the 2021 World Antimicrobial Resistance Congress.

• September 23 - Our grant entitled "Bacterial and Host Heterogeneity in TB latency, persistence and progression" is funded by NIH / NIAID under award U19 AI162598!

• July 20 - Dr. Yang is selected as the recipient of the 2021 Agilent Early Career Professor Award.

• • Press Releases: Rutgers University, Business Wire.​

• June 8 - Our manuscript entitled "Growth and stress tolerance comprise independent metabolic strategies critical for Staphylococcus aureus infection" is published at mBio.

• May 17 - Dr. Yang presents to ETH Zürich's Personalized Swiss Sepsis Study.

• May 14 - Dr. Yang presents at the inaugural Rutgers University Microbiome Program retreat.

• April 30 - Dr. Yang is selected as a Finalist for the Agilent Early Career Professor Award.

• March 3 - Our manuscript entitled "Digital insights into nucleotide metabolism and antibiotic treatment failure" is published at Front Digit Health.

• February 23 - Our manuscript entitled "Editorial: Facing the upcoming of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant bacteria: novel antimicrobial therapies (NATs)" is published at Front Bioeng Biotechnol.

• February 19 - Our manuscript entitled "Clinically relevant mutations in core metabolic genes confer antibiotic resistance" is published at Science.

  • Press Releases: MIT News, Broad Institute, Barnard College, World Economic Forum, EurekaAlert, Phys.org, GenomeWeb, Mirage News, Healthcare in Europe, SciTechDaily

• February 3 - Our manuscript entitled "Applications of machine learning to the problem of antimicrobial resistance: An emerging model for translational research" is published at J Clinical Microbiology.

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2020

• July 1 - Dr. Yang shares some advice on socializing during the COVID-19 pandemic with Rutgers Today.

• June 11 - Dr. Yang presents to the Rice University Frontiers in Bioengineering webinar series.

• April 29 - Dr. Yang presents a webinar for Biolog, Inc.

• March 23 - Our grant entitled "Effects of Host Metabolic Variation on Antibiotic Susceptibility" is funded by NIH NIGMS under award R00 GM118907!

• March 20 - Our grant entitled "Genetic, Metabolic, and Regulatory Control of MIC and Relapse in M. tuberculosis" is funded by NIH NIAID under award R01 AI146194!

• January 21 - Dr. Yang presents at the Digitalization and Infectious Diseases Conference in Basel, Switzerland.

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2019

• December 1 - The Yang Systems Biology Lab officially opens at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School!

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