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Meng-Chao Yao

Meng-Chao Yao

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Genetics

D-Index
57
Citations
25393
World Ranking
3357
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Meng-Chao Yao is affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Modeling and Simulation, Ecology, and Aging.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Selfing mutants link Ku proteins to mating type determination in Tetrahymena, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • Structure and dynamics of the contractile vacuole complex in Tetrahymena thermophila, 2023, Journal of Cell Science
  • Potential therapeutic targets of gastric cancer explored under endogenous network modeling of clinical data, 2024, Scientific Reports
  • Li+ substitution induced O3/O'3 biphasic tailoring strategies enhancing anion/cation synergetic redox of Na-rich manganese-based cathode for sodium-ion batteries, 2025, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Evolution of Telencephalon Anterior-Posterior Patterning through Core Endogenous Network Bifurcation, 2024, Entropy

The recurring themes in their research touch on:

  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Yao has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS Biology
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Yong-Cong Chen
  • Ruiqi Xiong
  • Ping Ao
  • Yang Su
  • Xile Zhang

Recognized by their peers, Meng-Chao Yao was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005 and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Isolation of micro- and macronuclei of Tetrahymena pyriformis.

    Martin A. Gorovsky;Meng-Chao Yao;Josephine Bowen Keevert;Gloria Lorick Pleger

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Comparison of the sequences of macro- and micronuclear DNA of Tetrahymena pyriformis

    Meng-Chao Yao;Martin A. Gorovsky

  • Programmed DNA deletion as an RNA-guided system of genome defense.

    Meng-Chao Yao;Patrick Fuller;Xiaohui Xi

  • Pdd1p, a novel chromodomain-containing protein, links heterochromatin assembly and DNA elimination in Tetrahymena.

    Malavi T Madireddi;Robert S Coyne;James F Smothers;Katherine M Mickey

  • A single integrated gene for ribosomal RNA in a eucaryote, tetrahymena pyriformis

    Meng-Chao Yao;Joseph G. Gall

  • DNA elimination in Tetrahymena: a developmental process involving extensive breakage and rejoining of DNA at defined sites.

    Meng-Chao Yao;Judy Choi;Shozo Yokoyama;Charles F. Austerberry

  • Nongenic, bidirectional transcription precedes and may promote developmental DNA deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila

    Douglas L. Chalker;Meng-Chao Yao

  • A Domesticated piggyBac Transposase Plays Key Roles in Heterochromatin Dynamics and DNA Cleavage during Programmed DNA Deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila

    Chao-Yin Cheng;Alexander Vogt;Kazufumi Mochizuki;Meng-Chao Yao;Meng-Chao Yao

  • GENOME DOWNSIZING DURING CILIATE DEVELOPMENT: Nuclear Division of Labor through Chromosome Restructuring

    Robert S. Coyne;Douglas L. Chalker;Meng-Chao Yao

  • The controlling sequence for site-specific chromosome breakage in tetrahymena

    Meng-Chao Yao;Ching-Ho Yao;Bob Monks

  • DNA Elimination in Ciliates: Transposon Domestication and Genome Surveillance

    Douglas L. Chalker;Meng-Chao Yao

  • A small number of cistrons for ribosomal RNA in the germinal nucleus of a eukaryote, Tetrahymena pyriformis.

    Meng-Chao Yao;Alan R. Kimmel;Martin A. Gorovsky

  • Non-Mendelian, heritable blocks to DNA rearrangement are induced by loading the somatic nucleus of Tetrahymena thermophila with germ line-limited DNA.

    D L Chalker;M C Yao

  • Specific DNA rearrangements in synchronously developing nuclei of Tetrahymena.

    C F Austerberry;C D Allis;M C Yao

  • RNA-guided DNA deletion in Tetrahymena: an RNAi-based mechanism for programmed genome rearrangements.

    Meng-Chao Yao;Ju-Lan Chao

  • Transformation of Tetrahymena thermophila by microinjection of ribosomal RNA genes

    Mohammad M. Tondravi;Meng-Chao Yao

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Tapscott
Stephen J. Tapscott Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore
Hsing Jien Kung
Hsing Jien Kung Taipei Medical University
Leonidas C. Platanias
Leonidas C. Platanias Northwestern University
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Steven Finkbeiner
Steven Finkbeiner University of California, San Francisco
Nektarios Tavernarakis
Nektarios Tavernarakis Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Martin A. Gorovsky
Martin A. Gorovsky University of Rochester

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