Chunyu Wang

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Biology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America

Academician Molecular Biology
Biography

Chunyu Wang is an associate researcher at Microsoft Research Asia working on computer vision projects. He completed hisPhD degree from the school of EECS, Peking University, working with Prof. Yizhou Wang and Prof. Alan Yuille. His research interests are mainly in human-centered tasks including human detection, 2D/3D pose estimation and action recognition. My research discipline is to address these tasks in a simple, interpretable and effective manner. He completed his MD,from Peking Union Medical College in 1996 and undergraduate studies in the school of Software Engineering at Dalian University of Technology which sits in the beautiful city Dalian.

Research Intrest

Alzheimer’s disease, Aβ, protein aggregation, mechanism and applications of protein splicing, protein recognition, protein dynamics, membrane proteins, NMR spectroscopy.

List of Publications
Connors, Christopher Ryan, David Jacob Rosenman, Dahabada HJ Lopes, Shivina Mittal, Gal Bitan, Mirco Sorci, Georges Belfort, Angel E. Garcia, and Chunyu Wang (2013). “Tranilast Binds to Aβ Monomers and Promotes Aβ Fibrillation.” Biochemistry 52(23): 3995-4002
Xie, J., Owen, T., Xia, K., Singh, A. V., Tou, E., Li, L., Arduini, B., Li, H., Wan, L. Q., Callahan, B., and Wang, C. (2015). Zinc Inhibits Hedgehog Autoprocessing: Linking Zinc Deficiency with Hedgehog Activation. J. Biol. Chem. 289(118): 11591-11600. Top 5 most viewed article March-April 2015 on JBC website.
Jian Xie, Timothy Owen, Ke Xia, Brian Callahan and Chunyu Wang (2016). A Single Aspartate Coordinates Two Catalytic Steps in Hedgehog Autoprocessing. Journal of the American Chemical Society. Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b06928