Yen-Ping Hsueh

BIOGRAPHY

Yen-Ping Hsueh is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Faculty Member Joe Heitman to recommend the scientific literature in their field.

CURRENT POSITION:
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Heitman Lab

EDUCATION:
2008 PhD Duke university

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My projects involve the identification of MAT-linked recombination hotspots, recapitulation of the ancestral tri-and tetra-polar MAT loci, characterization of the function of G proteins in the pheromone signaling pathway and identification of a constitutively active GPCR. More recently, I discovered a repeat-induced silencing phenomenon that occurs during mating. I am studying the underlying mechanism and am interested in further exploring the role of silencing pathway in genome defense of C. neoformans.

HOME PAGE
http://mgm.duke.edu/microbial/mycology/heitman/lab/Hsueh.htm