Qin Yan PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Departments & Organizations

2011 YCCI Scholars
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Genetics and Genomics | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Stem Cell Center, Yale: Transcriptional Regulation of Stem and Progenitor Cells
Pathology: Pathology Research
Research Interests
Epigenetics; Transcription regulation; Cancer biology; Stem cell biology more...
Education
- B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 1996
- M.S., University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, 1998
- Ph.D., University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, 2002
Selected Publications
- Sayegh J, Cao J, Zou MR, Morales A, Blair LP, Norcia M, Hoyer D, Tackett AJ, Merkel J, Yan Q. Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Jumonji AT-Rich Interactive Domain 1B (JARID1B) Histone Demethylase by a Sensitive High Throughput Screen. J Biol Chem. 2013; doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.419861.
- Blair LP, Yan Q. Epigenetic mechanisms in commonly occurring cancers. DNA and Cell Biology, Special issue on "Epigenetics: Methylation, Chromatin, and Beyond", 31(S1): S-49-S-61. doi: 10.1089/dna.2012.1654. (2012)
- Lin W, Cao J, Liu J, Beshiri ML, Fujiwara Y, Francis J, Cherniack AD, Geisen C, Blair LP, Zou MR, Shen X, Kawamori D, Liu Z, Grisanzio C, Watanabe H, Minamishima YA, Zhang Q, Kulkarni RN, Signoretti S, Rodig SJ, Bronson RT, Orkin SH, Tuck DP, Benevolenskaya EV, Meyerson M, Kaelin WG, and Yan Q. Loss of the RBP2 histone demethylase suppresses tumorigenesis in mice lacking Rb1 or Men1. PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1110104108 (2011)





