Dr.Yang Yingxue is a lecturer at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. Her main research areas include the molecular mechanisms of abiotic stress regulation in plants and plant functional genomics. She has published 10 academic papers as first author or corresponding author (including co-authors) in journals such as Nature Genetics, Molecular Plant and Plant Physiology, and has been granted one national invention patent. She has served as a part-time graduate supervisor at the Guangdong Provincial Graduate Joint Training Base, a guest editor for the Journal of Visualized Experiments, and a reviewer for Rice and Scientific Data. She is a Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talent and a Foshan Local Leading Talent.

Education:

2014.10-2018.09 Ph.D. in Plant Sciences, Heidelberg University, Germany

2011.09-2014.06 B.A. in Plant Sciences, Lanzhou University, China

2007.09-2011.06 B.S. in Biotechnology, Heilongjiang University, China

Professional Experience:

2026.05-present Lecturer, Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, China

2024.12-2026.04 Research Secretary, Institute of Emerging Agricultural Technology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, China

2023.02-2024.12 Assistant Research Fellow, Kunpeng Institute of Modern Agriculture of Foshan, China

2019.09-2023.02 Postdoctoral Fellow, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

2018.09-2019.09 Postdoctoral Fellow, Heidelberg University, Germany

1.Zhang, X., Lan, L.,Yang, Y., Guan, H., Pen, D., Jiang, H., ... & Pan, W. (2026). The pangenome of the rose uncovers massive structure variations for allele mining to empower breeding. Nature Genetics, 58, 1164-1175

2.Shang, L., He, W., Wang, T.,Yang, Y., Xu, Q., Zhao, X., ... & Qian, Q. (2023). A complete assembly of the rice Nipponbare reference genome. Molecular Plant, 16(8), 1232-1236.

3.Yang, Y., Zhang, C., Zhu, D., He, H., Wei, Z., Yuan, Q., ... & Shang, L. (2022). Identifying candidate genes and patterns of heat-stress response in rice using a genome-wide association study and transcriptome analyses. The Crop Journal, 10(6), 1633-1643.

4.Xu, D.,Yang, Y., Gong, D., Chen, X., Jin, K., Jiang, H., ... & Pan, W. (2023). GFAP: ultra-fast and accurate gene functional annotation software for plants. Plant Physiology, 193(3), 1745-1748.

5.Yang, Y., Yu, J., Qian, Q. & Shang, L. (2022). Enhancement of heat and drought stress tolerance in rice by genetic manipulation: A systematic review. Rice, 15(1), 1-18.

6.Yang, Y., Lenherr, E. D., Gromes, R., Wang, S., Wirtz, M., Hell, R., ... & Rausch, T. (2019). Plant glutathione biosynthesis revisited: redox-mediated activation of glutamylcysteine ligase does not require homo-dimerization. Biochemical Journal, 476(7), 1191-1203.

7.Yang, Y., Du, W., Li, Y., Lei, J. & Pan, W. (2025). Recent advances and challenges in de novo genome assembly. Genomics Communications, 2, e014.

8.Jiang, H., Zhang, X., Leng, L., Gong, D., Zhang, X., Liu, J., ... &Yang, Y.(2023). A chromosome-scale and haplotype-resolved genome assembly of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) based on high-fidelity sequencing. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, 1230836.

9.Yang, J., Zhao, X., Jiang, H.,Yang, Y., Hou, Y. & Pan, W. (2023). RAfilter: an algorithm for detecting and filtering false-positive alignments in repetitive genomic regions. Horticulture Research, 10(1), uhac288.

10.Xu, D., Song, Y., Zhao, X., Gong, D.,Yang, Y. & Pan, W. (2022). RAviz: a visualization tool for detecting false-positive alignments in repetitive genomic regions. Horticulture Research, 9, uhac161.

11. He, W., He, H., Yuan, Q., Zhang, H. , Li, X., Wang, T.,Yang, Y., … & Shang, L. (2024). Widespread inversions shape the genetic and phenotypic diversity in rice. Science Bulletin, 69(5), 593-596.

12. Shang, L., Li, X., He, H., Yuan, Q., Song, Y., Wei, Z., ...Yang, Y., … & Qian, Q. (2022). A super pan-genomic landscape of rice. Cell Research, 32(10), 878-896.