Email

yu.yang@bcm.edu

Positions

Medical Resident

Graduate Medical Education
Pathology & Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Education

MB from Zhengzhou University

06/2009 - Zhengzhou, China

MA from Sun Yat-sen University

07/2012 - Guangzhou, China

PhD from Wayne State University

12/2016 - Detroit

Selected Publications

• Yang, Y; Bolnick, A; Shamir, A; Abdulhasan, M; Li, Q; Parker, G; Puscheck, E; Rappolee, D.. " Blastocyst-Derived Stem Cell Populations under Stress: Impact of Nutrition and Metabolism on Stem Cell Potency Loss and Miscarriage " Stem Cell Rev. 2017 Aug ; 13 (4) : 454-464.
  Pubmed PMID: 28425063.
• Yang Y, Xu Y, Ding C, Khoudja RY, Lin M, Awonuga AO, Dai J, Puscheck EE, Rappolee DA, Zhou C. " Comparison of 2, 5, and 20 % O2 on the development of post-thaw human embryos " J Assist Reprod Genet. 2016 Jul ; 33 (7) : 919-927.
  Pubmed PMID: 27007876.
• Yang Y, Jiang Z, Bolnick A, Dai J, Puscheck EE, Rappolee DA.. " Departure from optimal O2 level for mouse trophoblast stem cell proliferation and potency leads to most rapid AMPK activation " J Reprod Dev. 2017 Feb 16; 63 (1) : 87-94.
  Pubmed PMID: 27867161.
• Yang, Y; Abdulhasan, M; Awonuga, A; Bolnick, A; Puscheck, E; Rappolee DA. " Hypoxic Stress Forces Adaptive and Maladaptive Placental Stress Responses in Early Pregnancy " Birth Defects Res. 2017 Oct 16; 109 (17) : 1330-1344.
  Pubmed PMID: 29105384.
• Yang Y, Parker GC, Puscheck EE, Rappolee DA.. " Direct reprogramming to multipotent trophoblast stem cells, and is pluripotency needed for regenerative medicine either? " Stem Cell Investig. 2016 Jun 21; 3 : 24.
  Pubmed PMID: 27487747.
• Yang Y, Arenas-Hernandez M, Gomez-Lopez N, Dai J, Parker GC, Puscheck EE, Rappolee DA.. " Hypoxic Stress Forces Irreversible Differentiation of a Majority of Mouse Trophoblast Stem Cells Despite FGF4 " Biol Reprod. 2016 Nov ; 95 (5) : 110.
  Pubmed PMID: 27683262.
• Puscheck EE, Awonuga AO, Yang Y, Jiang Z, Rappolee DA. " Molecular biology of the stress response in the early embryo and its stem cells " Adv Exp Med Biol. 2015 ; 843 : 77-128.
  Pubmed PMID: 25956296.
• Bolnick A, Awonuga AO, Yang Y, Abdulhasan M, Xie Y, Zhou S, Puscheck EE, Rappolee DA. " Using stem cell oxygen physiology to optimize blastocyst culture while minimizing hypoxic stress " J Assist Reprod Genet. 2017 Oct ; 34 (10) : 1251-1259.
  Pubmed PMID: 28647787.
• Awonuga AO, Yang Y, Rappolee DA. " When stresses collide " Biol Reprod. 2013 Sep 27; 89 (3) : 74.
  Pubmed PMID: 23946542.
• Puscheck EE, Bolnick A, Awonuga A, Yang Y, Abdulhasan M, Li Q, Secor E, Louden E, Hüttemann M, Rappolee DA. " Why AMPK agonists not known to be stressors may surprisingly contribute to miscarriage or hinder IVF/ART " J Assist Reprod Genet. 2018 Jun 7;
  Pubmed PMID: 29882092.

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Memberships

College of American Pathologists

Junior Member (06/2018)

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathologists

Junior Member (07/2018)

Texas Society of Pathologists

Junior Member (07/2018)

Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists

Junior Member (07/2018)