Education Background

l 2009.09-2014.07 Doctor in Institute of Biophysics, Chinese academy of sciences.

l 2005.09-2008.07 studied in the Lanzhou university and obtained master’s degree.

Work experience

l 2015.10-2017.07 Assistant professor of Jiangsu institute of nuclear.

l 2017.09-now Assistant professor of institute for translation medicine, Qingdao university.

Selected Publications

l Fei Wang, Deyu Zhang, Dejiu Zhang, Peifeng Li, Yanyan Gao*. Mitochondrial protein translation: emerging roles and clinical significance in disease. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Jul 1;9:675465.

l Yanyan Gao#*, Fang Yang# , Xiu-An Yang# , Li Zhang, Huixin Yu, Xian Cheng, Shichen Xu, Jie Pan, Kun Wang, Peifeng Li*. Mitochondrial metabolism is inhibited by the HIF1α-MYC-PGC-1β axis in BRAF V600E thyroid cancer. The FEBS Journal, 2019, 286(7) : 1420-1436.  

l Yanyan Gao#, Xiufeng Bai#, Dejiu Zhang, Chunsheng Han, Jing Yuan, Wenbin Liu, Xintao Cao, Zilei Chen, Fugen Shangguan, Zhenyuan Zhu, Fei Gao and Yan Qin*. Mammalian elongation factor 4 regulates mitochondrial translation essential for spermatogenesis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2016 (23):441–449.

l Fang Yang #, Yanyan Gao #, Zhikai Li, Luming Chen, Zhiping Xia, Tao Xu, Yan Qin *. Mitochondrial EF4 links respiratory dysfunction and cytoplasmic translation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014Oct;1837(10):1674-83.