Yini | Xiao

yini.xiao ucsf.edu

Postdoctoral Scholar

Education

2024-Present

Postdoctoral Scholar (Advisor: Dr. Wendell Lim)
University of California, San Francisco

2021-2023

Postdoctoral Scholar (Advisor: Dr. Matthias Hebrok)
University of California, San Francisco

2013-2020

Ph.D., Cell Biology (Advisor: Dr. Xin Cheng)
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai

2009-2013

B.S.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan

Research Interests

Synthetic biology tools to model organogenesis and cure disease.

Awards

2016 Excellent student of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2011 Outstanding student leader of Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Publications

de Klerk, E., Xiao, Y., Emfinger, C.H., Keller, M.P., Berrios, D.I., Loconte, V., Ekman, A.A., White, K.L., Cardone, R.L., Kibbey, R.G., Attie, A.D., Hebrok, M. "Loss of ZNF148 enhances insulin secretion in human pancreatic β cells." JCI insight, 8(11) (2023)

Ma, Q.*, Xiao, Y.*, Xu, W.*, Wang, M., Li, S., Yang, Z., Xu, M., Zhang, T., Zhang, Z.N., Hu, R., Su, Q., Yuan, F., Xiao, T., Wang, X., He, Q., Zhao, J., Chen, Z.J., Sheng, Z., Chai, M., Wang, H., Shi, W., Deng, Q., Cheng, X., Li, W. "ZnT8 loss-of-function accelerates functional maturation of hESC-derived β cells and resists metabolic stress in diabetes." Nature Communications, 13.1 (2022): 1-16.

Feng, S., Wu, J., Qiu, W.L., Yang, L., Deng, X., Zhou, Y., Chen, Y., Li, X., Yu, L., Li, H., Xu, Z.R., Xiao, Y., Ren, X., Zhang, L., Wang, C., Sun, Z., Wang, J., Ding, X., Chen, Y., Gaudi, P., Pan, G., Ogawa, M., Ogawa, S., Na, J., Zhang, P., Hui, L., Yin, H., Chen, L., Xu, C.R., Cheng, X. "Large-scale generation of functional and transplantable hepatocytes and cholangiocytes from human endoderm stem cells." Cell Reports 33.10 (2020)

Li, L.C., Qiu, W.L., Zhang, Y.W., Xu, Z.R., Xiao, Y.N., Hou, C., Lamaoqiezhong, Yu, P., Cheng, X., Xu, C.R. "Single‐cell transcriptomic analyses reveal distinct dorsal/ventral pancreatic programs." EMBO reports 19.10 (2018): e46148.

Wang, J., Cui, C., Nan, H., Yu, Y., Xiao, Y., Poon, E., Yang, G., Wang, X., Wang, C., Li, L., Boheler, K.R. "Graphene sheet-induced global maturation of cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells." ACS applied materials & interfaces 9.31 (2017): 25929-25940.