Yinyin Zhuang

PhD Student

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Yinyin Zhuang was born and grew up in Zhanjiang, a coastal city in Guangdong, China. She obtained her bachelor degree in Food Science and Engineering at Tianjin University and Hainan University, then moved to Singapore for her master degree in Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prior to becoming a Ph.D. student in Prof. Dr. Krishnaraj Rajalingam's lab, Zhuang worked as a research associate under the supervision of Dr. Wenting Zhao at NTU, focusing on membrane curvature-dependent activities in live cells and in vitro. Now she is investigating the role of prohibitins at the plasma membrane in regulation of RAS activation and tumorigenesis.

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EDUCATION

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Since 05/2019              PhD Student in Prof. Dr. Rajalingam's lab

07/2016 - 07/2017      Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

                                      M.Sc in Biomedical Engineering  

09/2012 - 06/2016      Tianjin University & Hainan University, China

                                      Bachelor Eng in Food Science and Engineering 

                                      (Joint Undergraduate Program)

 

  

PUBLICATIONS

   

• Yongfei Liu, Yinyin Zhuang, Dongqin Ding, Yiran Xu, Jibin Sun, Dawei Zhang*. Biosensor-based evolution and elucidation of a biosynthetic pathway in Escherichia coli. ACS synthetic biology, 2017, 6 (5), 837–848