Education

Ph.D. in Molecular Biosciences, Rutgers & Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-UMDNJ, New Jersey

Current position

Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, San Francisco, studying how animal lifespan is shaped genetically and environmentally (http://profiles.ucsf.edu/yuehua.wei)

Publications

1. Wei, Y. and Zheng, X. F. (2011). Nutritional control of cell growth via TOR signaling in budding yeast. Methods Mol Biol 759: 307-319.
   
2. Wei, Y. and Zheng, X. S. (2010). Maf1 regulation: a model of signal transduction inside the nucleus. Nucleus 1(2): 162-165.
   
3. Wei, Y. and Zheng, X. F. (2009). Sch9 partially mediates TORC1 signaling to control ribosomal RNA synthesis. Cell Cycle 8(24): 4085-4090. Highlighted in Cell Cycle (2009) 8(24):4023-4 and Cell Cycle (2010) 9(1):26-7.
   
4. Wei, Y. and Zheng, X. F. (2009). TORC1 association with rDNA chromatin as a mechanism to co-regulate Pol I and Pol III. Cell Cycle 8(23): 3802-3803.
   
5. Wei, Y., Tsang, C. K. and Zheng, X. F. (2009). Mechanisms of regulation of RNA polymerase III-dependent transcription by TORC1. EMBO J 28(15): 2220-2230. Extra viewed in Nucleus 1(2):162-5 and Cell Cycle 8(23):3802-3.
   
6. Tsang, C. K., Wei, Y. and Zheng, X. F. (2007). Compacting DNA during the interphase: condensin maintains rDNA integrity. Cell Cycle 6(18): 2213-2218.
   
7. Wei, Y. H., Mao, A. J., He, Y. Z., Qiao, Y. and Dong, Z. Y. (2005). [Expression of endo-beta-mannanase gene from Trichoderma reesei in Pichia pastoris]. Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao 21(6): 878-883.