CONTACT INFORMATION

Mengran Yang

Division of Plant Science & Technology

201 Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center

1201 E. Rollins Street

University of Missouri-Columbia

Columbia MO 65211

Email: yangmengr@missouri.edu

Lab phone: (573)-884-4799

EDUCATION

2011 – 2017  Ph.D.  Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

2007 – 2011  B.S.   Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

January 2024 – Current, Research Scientist/Academic, Stacey’s Lab, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

January 2019 – December 2023, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stacey’s Lab, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUS

Role of extracellular ATP in plant

PUBLICATIONS

Traeger, J., Hu, D., Yang, M., Stacey, G., Orr, G. (2023) Super-Resolution Imaging of Plant Receptor-Like Kinases Uncovers Their Colocalization and Coordination with Nanometer Resolution. Membranes (Basel). 13, 142.

Riahin, C., Mendis, K., Busick, B., Ptaszek, M., Yang, M., Stacey, G., Parvate, A., Evans, J.E., Traeger, J., Hu, D., Orr, G., Rosenzweig, Z. (2022) Near Infrared Emitting Semiconductor Polymer Dots for Bioimaging and Sensing. Sensors (Basel), 22, 7218.

Riahin, C., Meares, A., Esemoto, N.N., Ptaszek, M., LaScola, M., Pandala, N., Lavik, E., Yang, M., Stacey, G., Hu, D., Traeger, J.C., Orr, G., Rosenzweig, Z. (2022) Hydroporphyrin-Doped Near-Infrared-Emitting Polymer Dots for Cellular Fluorescence Imaging. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 20790-20801.

Hu, J., Hu, Y., Yang, M., Hu, X., Wang, X. (2021) Light-Induced Dynamic Change of Phytochrome B and Cryptochrome 1 Stabilizes SINATs in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 722733.

Yang, M., Li, C., Cai, Z., Hu, Y., Nolan, T., Yu, F., Yin, Y., Xie, Q., Tang, G. and Wang, X. (2017) SINAT E3 ligases control the light-mediated stability of the brassinosteroid-activated transcription factor BES1 in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell, 41, 47-58.

Nolan, T., Brennan, B., Yang, M., Chen, J., Zhang, M., Li, Z., Wang, X., Bassham, D., Walley, J. and Yin, Y. (2017) Selective Autophagy of BES1 Mediated by DSK2 Balances Plant Growth and Survival. Developmental Cell, 41, 33–46.

Yang, M. and Wang, X. (2017) Multiple Ways of BES1/BZR1 Degradation to Decode Distinct Developmental and Environmental Cues in Plants. Molecular Plant, 10, 915-917.