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2026
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March 8 - Our manuscript entitled "RNAi modulation of endothelial-STAT3 as a therapeutic target for CAR T-cell toxicities" is published at Heliyon.
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March 6 - Our manuscript entitled "Insights into bacterial stress adaptation, host interactions, and drug resistance: key findings from the fall 2025 ASM Theobald Smith Society meeting" is published at mSphere.
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2025
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December 7 - Our manuscript entitled "Integrating synthetic biology to understand and engineer the heart, lung, blood, and sleep systems" is published at Cell Systems.
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September 24 - Our manuscript entitled "Fermentative growth decreases the iron demand of Staphylococcus aureus" is published at Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.
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September 2 - Our manuscript entitled "Metabolic rewiring of isoniazid sensitivity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis" is published at PNAS.
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July 31 - Our grant entitled "Design principles for engineering therapeutic macrophages" is funded by NIH / NIBIB under award R21 EB037846!
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June 9 - Our manuscript entitled "Bioenergetic stress potentiates antimicrobial resistance and persistence" is published at Nature Communications.
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Press Releases: Rutgers University, EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, Phys.org, Mirage News, Scienmag, News Medical life Sciences, the microbiologist, Global Health News Wire, Innovation News Network, bioengineer.org, Technology Networks, Health Medicine Network, MT Dialog, Olhar Digital, Espanol News, Time News, Laboratory Equipment, Mandarinian News, ScienceNews.DK
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May 9 - Dr. Yang receives the 2025 ASM Theobald Smith Society Young Investigator Award.
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April 2 - Our first PhD student Barry Li successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Bioenergetic stress potentiates antimicrobial resistance evolution and persistence"! Congratulations Barry!
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April 2 - Our manuscript entitled "Predicting fitness in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with transcriptional regulatory network-informed interpretable machine learning" is published at Frontiers in Tuberculosis.
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January 24 - Our manuscript entitled "Revealing AIEC virulence genes behind the mask of antimicrobial resistance" is published at Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
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2024
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December 23 - Our manuscript entitled "Identification of an antibiotic from an HTS targeting EF-Tu:tRNA interaction: a prospective topical treatment for MRSA skin infections" is published at Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
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December 12 - Dr. Yang presents in the Synthetic Biology Young Speaker Series (SynBYSS).
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December 3 - Our papers were highlighted by the editors at Nature Communications.
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November 13 - Our manuscript entitled "Catalase activity deficiency sensitizes multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the ATP synthase inhibitor bedaquiline" is published at Nature Communications.
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November 13 - Our manuscript entitled "Whole genome CRISPRi screening identifies druggable vulnerabilities in an isoniazid resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis" is published at Nature Communications.
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​Press Releases: University of Otago, EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, Mirage News, Newswise, News Medical life Sciences, LabRoots, Medical Xpress, the microbiologist, Front Line Genomics, Health Medicine Network, Technology Networks, AZO Life Sciences, Otago Daily Times, RawNews, National Tribune, Nipponese News, MSN
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October 1 - We received a generous grant from the Rutgers Busch Biomedical Grant Program.
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September 25 - Our manuscript entitled "Predicting bacterial fitness in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with transcriptional regulatory network-informed interpretable machine learning" is available as a preprint at bioRxiv.
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July 15 - Our manuscript entitled "Bioenergetic stress potentiates antimicrobial resistance and persistence" is available as a preprint at bioRxiv.
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2023
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November 2 - Our manuscript entitled "An in vitro model of the macrophage-endothelial interface to characterize CAR T-cell induced cytokine storm" is published at Scientific Reports.
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October 18 - Our manuscript entitled "KatG catalase deficiency confers bedaquiline hyper-susceptibility to isoniaizid resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis" is available as a preprint at bioRxiv.
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October 3 - Our manuscript entitled "YlaN is an iron(II) binding protein that functions to relieve Fur-mediated repression of gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus" is available as a preprint at bioRxiv.
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September 9 - Our administrative supplement to our grant "Bacterial and Host Heterogeneity in TB latency, persistence and progression" is funded by NIH / NIAID under award U19 AI162598!
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March 23 - Our collaborative work with NASA is now published at Nature Machine Intelligence:
2022
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December 21 - Our manuscript entitled "How can systems approaches help us understand and treat infectious disease?" is published at Cell Systems.
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November 18 - Our manuscript entitled "A comprehensive update to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv reference genome" is published at Nature Communications.
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Press Releases: Rutgers University, EurekAlert, Phys.org, Front Line Genomics, Mirage News, News Medical life Sciences, ScienceDaily, Newswise, ScienMag, NewsAzi, Futurity, AZO Life Sciences
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July 25 - Barry Li passes his Ph.D. qualifying exam!
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July 18 - Our manuscript entitled "A comprehensive update to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv reference genome" is available as a preprint at bioRxiv.
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July 17 - Barry Li presents at the Microbial Stress Response Gordon Research Seminar.
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June 15 - Our manuscript entitled "Longitudinal Analysis of Biologic Correlates of COVID-19 Resolution: Case Report" is published at Frontiers in Medicine.
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June 10 - Yiqi Yan passes her Ph.D. qualifying exam!
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April 11 - Dr. Yang presents as the Keynote Speaker at the University of Illinois MicroERA Spring Symposium.
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February 23 - Our manuscript entitled "CRISP(e)R drug discovery" is published at Nature Chemical Biology.
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2021
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December 23 - Our collaborative work with NASA, from the NASA-sponsored "Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Modeling for Space Biology" is now available on arXiv:
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December 8 - Dr. Yang presents as a Keynote Speaker at the Theobald Smith Society's Fall 2021 Symposium.
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November 8 - Dr. Yang participates as a "Artificial Intelligence for Antibiotics" panelist at the 2021 World Antimicrobial Resistance Congress.
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September 23 - Our grant entitled "Bacterial and Host Heterogeneity in TB latency, persistence and progression" is funded by NIH / NIAID under award U19 AI162598!
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July 20 - Dr. Yang is selected as the recipient of the 2021 Agilent Early Career Professor Award.
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Press Releases: Rutgers University, Business Wire.​
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June 8 - Our manuscript entitled "Growth and stress tolerance comprise independent metabolic strategies critical for Staphylococcus aureus infection" is published at mBio.
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May 17 - Dr. Yang presents to ETH Zürich's Personalized Swiss Sepsis Study.
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May 14 - Dr. Yang presents at the inaugural Rutgers University Microbiome Program retreat.
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April 30 - Dr. Yang is selected as a Finalist for the Agilent Early Career Professor Award.
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March 3 - Our manuscript entitled "Digital insights into nucleotide metabolism and antibiotic treatment failure" is published at Frontiers in Digital Health.
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February 23 - Our manuscript entitled "Editorial: Facing the upcoming of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant bacteria: novel antimicrobial therapies (NATs)" is published at Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.
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February 19 - Our manuscript entitled "Clinically relevant mutations in core metabolic genes confer antibiotic resistance" is published at Science.
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Press Releases: MIT News, Broad Institute, Barnard College, World Economic Forum, EurekaAlert, Phys.org, GenomeWeb, Mirage News, Healthcare in Europe, SciTechDaily
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February 3 - Our manuscript entitled "Applications of machine learning to the problem of antimicrobial resistance: An emerging model for translational research" is published at Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
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2020
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July 1 - Dr. Yang shares some advice on socializing during the COVID-19 pandemic with Rutgers Today.
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June 11 - Dr. Yang presents to the Rice University Frontiers in Bioengineering webinar series.
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March 23 - Our grant entitled "Effects of Host Metabolic Variation on Antibiotic Susceptibility" is funded by NIH NIGMS under award R00 GM118907!
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March 20 - Our grant entitled "Genetic, Metabolic, and Regulatory Control of MIC and Relapse in M. tuberculosis" is funded by NIH NIAID under award R01 AI146194!
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January 21 - Dr. Yang presents at the Digitalization and Infectious Diseases Conference in Basel, Switzerland.
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2019
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December 1 - The Yang Systems Biology Lab officially opens at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School!
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