Wang Mengran, Ph.D. in Computational Biology, graduated from the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (now Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences). She is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology (under establishment). Research focuses on: 1) Transcriptomic studies of membraneless subcellular organelles; 2) Bioinformatics in innate immunity. Published as (co-)first author in high-impact journals such asNature Cell BiologyandCancer Research. Led one project funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (completed).

Education

2015.09–2021.01: Ph.D. in Science, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2011.09–2015.06: B.S. in Science, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University

Professional Experience

2021.01–2024.03: Postdoctoral Fellow, later Senior Research Scholar, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology

Awards and Honors

2019: National Scholarship for Doctoral Students

2019: Di’ao Scholarship, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015: Shanghai Outstanding Graduate

Representative Publications

1.Liang Fang¹, Li Zhang¹,Mengran Wang¹, Yuhao He, Jiao Yang, Zengjin Huang, Ying Tan, Ke Fang, Jun Li, Zhiyuan Sun, Yanping Li, Yisen Tang, Weizheng Liang, Huanhuan Cui, Qionghua Zhu, Zhe Wu, Yiming Li, Yuhui Hu, Wei Chen*. Pooled CRISPR Screening Identifies P-Bodies as Repressors of Cancer Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition,Cancer Reaserch.(2024)

2.Yang Wang¹, Shi-Bin Hu¹,Meng-Ran Wang¹, Run-Wen Yao, Di Wu, Li Yang, Ling-Ling Chen* (2018). Genome-wide screening of NEAT1 regulators reveals cross-regulation between paraspeckles and mitochondria,Nat Cell Biol.(2018)

3.Xu-Kai Ma,Meng-Ran Wang, Chu-Xiao Liu, Rui Dong, Gordon G. Carmichael, Ling-Ling Chen, Li Yang*. CIRCexplorer3: A CLEAR Pipeline for Direct Comparison of Circular and Linear RNA Expression,Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics.(2020)

4.Che-guo Cai, A-jun Geng,Meng-Ran Wang,Li Yang, Qing Cissy Yu, Yi Arial Zeng*. Amphiregulin mediates the hormonal regulation on Rspondin-1 expression in the mammary gland,Developmental Biology.(2019)

5.Juexiao Zhou, Bin Zhang, Haoyang Li, Longxi Zhou, Zhongxiao Li, Yongkang Long, Wenkai Han,Mengran Wang, Huanhuan Cui, Jingjing Li, Wei Chen, Xin Gao*. Annotating TSSs in Multiple Cell Types Based on DNA Sequence and RNA-seq Data via DeeReCT-TSS,Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics.(2022)

Innate immunity; bioinformatics; long non-coding RNA; post-transcriptional RNA regulation