Weidong Yang

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Weidong Yang

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 3204

Cell Structure and Function

Undergraduate

BIOL 3301

Advanced Cell Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 5301

Cell Biology

Graduate

BIOL 8250

Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Tingey, M., Ruba, A., Junod, S.L., Rush, C., Saredy, J., Brew, W.E., & Yang, W. (2025). Paired-objectives photon enhancement (POPE) microscopy: enhanced photon collection for fluorescence imaging. Commun Eng, 4(1), 159. England. 10.1038/s44172-025-00491-6

  • Junod, S.L., Rush, C., Tingey, M., & Yang, W. (2025). O-GlcNAc modulation of nuclear pore complexes orchestrates mRNA export efficiency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 122(32), e2502687122. United States. 10.1073/pnas.2502687122

  • Maloney, R., Junod, S.L., Hagen, K.M., Lewis, T., Cheng, C., Shajan, F.J., Zhao, M., Moore, T.W., Truong, T.H., Yang, W., & Wang, R.E. (2024). Flexible fluorine-thiol displacement stapled peptides with enhanced membrane penetration for the estrogen receptor/coactivator interaction. J Biol Chem, 300(12), 107991. United States. 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107991

  • Tingey, M., Junod, S.L., Rush, C., & Yang, W. (2024). Protocol for live-cell super-resolution imaging of transport of pre-ribosomal subunits through the nuclear pore complex. STAR Protoc, 5(1), 102790. United States. 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102790

  • Yu, W., Tingey, M., Kelich, J.M., Li, Y., Yu, J., Junod, S.L., Jiang, Z., Hansen, I., Good, N., & Yang, W. (2024). Exploring Cellular Gateways: Unraveling the Secrets of Disordered Proteins within Live Nuclear Pores. Res Sq. United States. 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3504130/v1

  • Yu, W., Rush, C., Tingey, M., Junod, S., & Yang, W. (2023). Application of Super-resolution SPEED Microscopy in the Study of Cellular Dynamics. Chem Biomed Imaging, 1(4), 356-371. United States. 10.1021/cbmi.3c00036

  • Tingey, M., Ruba, A., & Yang, W. (2023). High-SPEED super-resolution SPEED microscopy to study primary cilium signaling in vivo. Methods Cell Biol, 176, 181-197. United States. 10.1016/bs.mcb.2022.12.016

  • Tingey, M., Schnell, S.J., Yu, W., Saredy, J., Junod, S., Patel, D., Alkurdi, A.A., & Yang, W. (2022). Technologies Enabling Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Imaging of mRNA. Cells, 11(19). Switzerland. 10.3390/cells11193079

  • Tingey, M. & Yang, W. (2022). Unraveling docking and initiation of mRNA export through the nuclear pore complex. Bioessays, 44(8), e2200027. United States. 10.1002/bies.202200027

  • Schnell, S.J., Tingey, M., & Yang, W. (2022). Speed Microscopy: High-Speed Single Molecule Tracking and Mapping of Nucleocytoplasmic Transport. Methods Mol Biol, 2502, 353-371. United States. 10.1007/978-1-0716-2337-4_23

  • Li, Y., Aksenova, V., Tingey, M., Yu, J., Ma, P., Arnaoutov, A., Chen, S., Dasso, M., & Yang, W. (2021). Distinct roles of nuclear basket proteins in directing the passage of mRNA through the nuclear pore. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 118(37). United States. 10.1073/pnas.2015621118

  • Tingey, M., Li, Y., & Yang, W. (2021). Protocol for single-molecule fluorescence recovery after photobleaching microscopy to analyze the dynamics and spatial locations of nuclear transmembrane proteins in live cells. STAR Protoc, 2(2), 100490. United States. 10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100490

  • Junod, S.L., Saredy, J., & Yang, W. (2021). Nuclear Import of Adeno-Associated Viruses Imaged by High-Speed Single-Molecule Microscopy. Viruses, 13(2). Switzerland. 10.3390/v13020167

  • Li, Y., Tingey, M., Ruba, A., & Yang, W. (2021). High-speed super-resolution imaging of rotationally symmetric structures using SPEED microscopy and 2D-to-3D transformation. Nat Protoc, 16(1), 532-560. England. 10.1038/s41596-020-00440-x