Jian Yang (杨建)

 

Department of Biological Sciences

917 Fairchild, MC2462

Columbia University, New York, NY 10027

  Email: jy160@columbia.edu

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty-data/jian-yang/faculty.html

 

 

 

Education:                  9/1978 - 7/1982          B.S.                                                                 Department of Biology, Beijing University, Beijing, China

 

9/1982 - 11/1985        M.S.                                                                Shanghai Brain Research Institute, Academia Sinica, Shanghai, China

 

9/1987 - 6/1991          Ph.D.                                                               Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington                                     Advisor: Dr. Bertil Hille

 

Postgraduate Training:

12/1985 - 8/1987        Visiting Scholar                                             Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University                                     Advisor: Dr. Stephen D. Roper

 

8/1991-12/1993          Postdoctoral Fellow                                                   Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University                                     Advisor: Dr. Richard W. Tsien

 

1/1994-12/1996          Postdoctoral Fellow                                       HHMI, Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry, UCSF                                     Advisor: Dr. Lily Y. Jan

 

Professional Positions:                      1/1997 – 4/2002          Assistant Professor                                         Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

 

4/2002 - 5/2004          Associate Professor                                        Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

 

6/2004 - present          Associate Professor (tenured)                                                Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

 

Awards

 

1.     Postdoctoral Fellowship, Muscular Dystrophy Association, 1/92 - 12/92. 2.     Harry Zimmerman Neuromuscular Disease Research Fellowship, Muscular Dystrophy Association, 1/93 - 12/94. 3.     Neuroscience Postdoctoral Training Grant, Neuroscience Program, UCSF, 1/96 – 12/96. 4.     Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,  9/97 – 8/99. 5.     McKnight Scholar Award, The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience,  7/00 – 6/03 6.     EJLB Scholar, The EJLB Foundation, 12/01 – 11/04. 7.     Established Investigator Award, The American Heart Association, 1/04 - 12/08

 

 

Professional Service

                       

                        Editorial Board

                                    Biophysical Journal,  7/2004 -

 

                        Study Section

10/2003           Ad hoc member, NTRC study section, NIH                                     2/2004             Ad hoc member, NTRC study section, NIH                                     7/04-6/08       Regular member, NTRC study section, NIH

 

Bibliography :

 

1. Chen, Y-h*., He., L-l*., Buchanan, D.R., Zhang, Y.,  Fitzmaurice, A., and Yang, J. (2008).  Functional dissection of the intramolecular Src homology 3-guanylate kinase domain coupling in voltage-gated Ca2+ channels b-subunits.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.  Under review.
2. Zhang, Y., Chen, Y-h., Bangaru, S.D., Abele, K., Tanabe, S., Kozasa, T., and Yang, J. (2008).  Origin of the voltage-dependence of G protein regulation of P/Q-type Ca2+ channels.  J. Neurosci.  Accepted.