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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
  • 2009 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1988 - W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons

Overview

Yuh Nung Jan is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Medicine. Their work also covers various subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Physiology, and Insect Science.

The scientist's research topics include cellular transport and secretion, neurobiology and insect physiology research, ion channel regulation and function, erythrocyte function and pathophysiology, lipid membrane structure and behavior, genetics, aging and longevity in model organisms, as well as neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Yuh Nung Jan include:

  • "Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly" (2022, Science)
  • "Mechanosensitive Ion Channels: Structural Features Relevant to Mechanotransduction Mechanisms" (2020, Annual Review of Neuroscience)
  • "Visceral Mechano-sensing Neurons Control Drosophila Feeding by Using Piezo as a Sensor" (2020, Neuron)
  • "TMEM16K is an interorganelle regulator of endosomal sorting" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Interorganelle communication, aging, and neurodegeneration" (2021, Genes & Development)

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Lily Yeh Jan (25 publications)
  • Chin Fen Teo (6 publications)
  • Sami T. Tuomivaara (5 publications)
  • Adeline J. H. Yong (4 publications)
  • Yanmeng Guo (3 publications)

Yuh Nung Jan has published frequently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 9 publications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 5 publications
  • Neuron with 2 publications
  • Nature Cell Biology with 2 publications
  • Nature Communications with 2 publications

Awards received by the scientist include the Gruber Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience in 2012, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience in 2009, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 1996, and the W. Alden Spencer Award from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Interactions between heterologous helix-loop-helix proteins generate complexes that bind specifically to a common DNA sequence.

    Cornelis Murre;Patrick Schonleber McCaw;H. Vaessin;M. Caudy

  • Changing subunit composition of heteromeric NMDA receptors during development of rat cortex

    Morgan Sheng;Jennifer Cummings;Leslie Ann Roldan;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Synaptic vesicle exocytosis captured by quick freezing and correlated with quantal transmitter release.

    J E Heuser;T S Reese;M J Dennis;Y Jan

  • Clustering of Shaker-type K + channels by interaction with a family of membrane-associated guanylate kinases

    Eunjoon Kim;Martin Niethammer;Adam Rothschild;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Primary structure and functional expression of a mouse inward rectifier potassium channel

    Yoshihiro Kubo;Timothy J. Baldwin;Yuh Nung Jan;Lily Y. Jan

  • Expression cloning of TMEM16A as a calcium-activated chloride channel subunit.

    Björn Christian Schroeder;Tong Cheng;Yuh Nung Jan;Lily Yeh Jan

  • A new ER trafficking signal regulates the subunit stoichiometry of plasma membrane K(ATP) channels.

    Noa Zerangue;Blanche Schwappach;Yuh Nung Jan;Lily Yeh Jan

  • Distinct morphogenetic functions of similar small GTPases: Drosophila Drac1 is involved in axonal outgrowth and myoblast fusion.

    Liqun Luo;Y. J. Liao;Lily Yeh Jan;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Cloning of genomic and complementary DNA from Shaker, a putative potassium channel gene from Drosophila.

    Diane M. Papazian;Thomas L. Schwarz;Bruce L. Tempel;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Asymmetric distribution of numb protein during division of the sensory organ precursor cell confers distinct fates to daughter cells.

    Michelle S. Rhyu;Lily Yeh Jan;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Sequence of a probable potassium channel component encoded at Shaker locus of Drosophila.

    Bruce L. Tempel;Diane M. Papazian;Thomas L. Schwarz;Yuh Nung Jan

  • A Trafficking Checkpoint Controls GABAB Receptor Heterodimerization

    Marta Margeta-Mitrovic;Yuh Nung Jan;Lily Yeh Jan

  • Control of Daughter Cell Fates during Asymmetric Division: Interaction of Numb and Notch

    Ming Guo;Lily Yeh Jan;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Antibodies to horseradish peroxidase as specific neuronal markers in Drosophila and in grasshopper embryos

    Lily Yeh Jan;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Asymmetric cell division

    Yuh Nung Jan;Lily Yeh Jan

  • Primary structure and functional expression of a rat G-protein-coupled muscarinic potassium channel

    Yoshihiro Kubo;Eitan Reuveny;Paul A. Slesinger;Yuh Nung Jan

  • atonal is a proneural gene that directs chordotonal organ formation in the Drosophila peripheral nervous system

    Andrew P. Jarman;Yves Grau;Lily Y. Jan;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Branching out: mechanisms of dendritic arborization

    Yuh Nung Jan;Lily Yeh Jan

  • Alteration of voltage-dependence of Shaker potassium channel by mutations in the S4 sequence.

    Diane M. Papazian;Leslie C. Timpe;Yuh Nung Jan;Lily Y. Jan

  • A protein component of Drosophila polar granules is encoded by vasa and has extensive sequence similarity to ATP-dependent helicases

    Bruce Hay;Lily Yeh Jan;Yuh Nung Jan

Frequent Co-Authors

Lily Yeh Jan
Lily Yeh Jan University of California, San Francisco
Rolf Bodmer
Rolf Bodmer Discovery Institute
Morgan Sheng
Morgan Sheng Broad Institute
Liqun Luo
Liqun Luo Stanford University
Ehud Y. Isacoff
Ehud Y. Isacoff University of California, Berkeley
Bingwei Lu
Bingwei Lu Stanford University
Bruce L. Tempel
Bruce L. Tempel University of Washington
Thomas Schwarz
Thomas Schwarz Boston Children's Hospital
Alain Ghysen
Alain Ghysen University of Montpellier
Song-Hai Shi
Song-Hai Shi Tsinghua University

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