Pursuing research at the interface between microbiology, molecular biology, physics, and engineering to understand bacterial biofilms.

Yale Science Building
Joined April 2021
New publication from the lab in Nature Communications entitled: "Vibrio cholerae biofilms use modular adhesins with glycan-targeting and nonspecific surface binding domains for colonization" Xin Huang, a graduate student in the lab, leads this work! nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Jing Yan is Awarded The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship. Congratulations Jing! For more on this story, visit mcdb.yale.edu/news/jing-yan-…
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Congratulations to the Yan Lab for their recent publication in Nature Communications entitled: "Mechanical forces drive a reorientation cascade leading to biofilm self-patterning”. JP Nijjer, a postdoc in the Yan lab, leads this work. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Congratulations to the Yan Lab for their recent publication in PNAS entitled: “Social evolution of shared biofilm matrix components”. Jung-Shen Benny Tai, a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Yan lab, leads this work. To read more, visit Yale News: news.yale.edu/2022/07/06/ins…
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Congratulations to Jing Yan for receiving the NIH Director's New Innovator Award for his project: Tracking Single-Cell Gene Expression Heterogeneity and Its Consequences in Bacterial Biofilms. Click the link to read the official news release from NIH. nih.gov/news-events/news-rel…
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