PhD student
University Hospital Wuerzburg and Rudolf Virchow Center, University of Würzburg
Yujing Zhang is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Experimental Biomedicine I, Wuerzburg University Hospital, Germany. In 2017, She received her bachelor's degree in biopharmaceutics at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in China. In 2018, she gained her master's degree in biotechnology at Queen’s University Belfast in the UK. And at the same year, she started her Ph.D. research in Prof. Markus Bender’s group. Her project is to apply optogenetic approaches to study platelet production. Currently, she focuses on investigating the influence of spatiotemporal calcium changes on megakaryocyte function such as megakaryocyte polarization by transducing a highly calcium conductive variant Channelrhodopsin-2 XXM2.0 into megakaryocytes. Besides, she is also carrying out work on assessing the role of cAMP and cGMP on megakaryocyte function as well as PDE activities in megakaryocytes by transducing the optogenetic tools bPAC or BeCyclOp into megakaryocytes.
Monday, July 11, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM