Ying Yin
| Theoretical and Computational Biophysics
Group Beckman Institute, Room 3115 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 405 N. Mathews Urbana, IL 61801 Home Department: Physics Email: yingyin@ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-5883 |
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Education:
- M.S., Physics, 2007
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - B.S., Physics, 2003
Lanzhou University
Research Interests:
Conformation changes and sugar translocation pathway of Lactose Permease
- Cellular membrane morphogenesis, e.g., membrane tubulation and vesiculation by BAR domain proteins
- Coarse graining method
- Carbon nanotubes in biological applications
Publications:
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Publications Database Four-scale description of membrane sculpting by BAR domains. Anton Arkhipov, Ying Yin, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 95, 2008. (September 1, 2008 issue).
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Publications Database Using VMD - an introductory tutorial. Jen Hsin, Anton Arkhipov, Ying Yin, John E. Stone, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Jordi Cohen, John Eargle, Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi, Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Marcos Sotomayor, Emad Tajkhorshid, Elizabeth Villa, Yi Wang, David Wells, Dan Wright, and Klaus Schulten. Current Protocols - Bioinformatics, 2008. In press.
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Publications Database Application of residue-based and shape-based coarse graining to biomolecular simulations. Peter L. Freddolino, Anton Arkhipov, Amy Y. Shih, Ying Yin, Zhongzhou Chen, and Klaus Schulten. In Gregory A. Voth, editor, Coarse-Graining of Condensed Phase and Biomolecular Systems. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2008. In press.
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Publications Database Computer modeling in biotechnology, a partner in development. Aleksei Aksimentiev, Robert Brunner, Jordi Cohen, Jeffrey Comer, Eduardo Cruz-Chu, David Hardy, Aruna Rajan, Amy Shih, Grigori Sigalov, Ying Yin, and Klaus Schulten. In Protocols in Nanostructure Design, Methods in Molecular Biology, pp. 181-234. Humana Press, 2008. In press.
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Publications Database Sugar transport across lactose permease probed by steered molecular dynamics. Morten Ø. Jensen, Ying Yin, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 93:92-102, 2007.
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Publications Database Sugar binding and protein conformational changes in lactose permease. Ying Yin, Morten Ø. Jensen, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Journal, 91:3972-3985, 2006.
Not from the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group: Measurement of Upsilon Production for p+p and p+d Interactions at 800 GeV/c. L. Y. Zhu, et al, Y. Yin and G. R. Yong. Physical Review Letters, 100, No.6, 2008.
Conferences and Presentations
- Multiscale Simulations of Membrane Tubulation by BAR domains,
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2008, Long Beach - Sugar transport across lactose permease probed by molecular dynamics simulations,
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2007, Baltimore - The mechanism of sugar transport across
E. coli lactose permease,
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2006, Salt Lake City - Coupling of Proton Translocation and Protein Conformational Changes in Lactose Permease,
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2006, Salt Lake City
