Jun Yang

 Post-Doctoral Researcher

Tel: (530) 752-0312

Fax: (530) 752-1537

email: junyang@ucdavis.edu

Education

09/2000-04/2006     Ph.D candidate of Analytical Chemistry,

                                   Advisor: Prof. Dr. Guowang Xu

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,

Chinese Academic of Sciences, Dalian, China.

09/1996-07/2000    Bachelor in Chemistry,

                                   Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Past Research

• Chemometrics, including the development of the algorithm to align the chromatograms and the software of pattern recognition methods.
• LC/MS analysis of the modified nucleosides and peptides. Applying LC/MS into the diagnosis of diseases.
• Metabonomics techniques, including the analytical and data processing techniques.
• Proteomics techniques, mainly focused on applying LC/MS, LC×LC-MS to serum proteomics.

Selected Publications

1.      Jun Yang, Guowang Xu, Yufang Zheng, Hongwei Kong, Tao Pang, Shen Lv, Qing Yang. Diagnosis of liver cancer using HPLC-based metabonomics in the aim to avoid the false-positive result from hepatitis and hepatocirrhosis diseases, Journal of Chromatography B. 2004, 813/1-2: 59-65.

2.      Jun Yang, Guowang Xu, Qunfa Hong, Hartmut M. Liebich, Katja Lutz, R.-M. Schmülling, Hans Günther Wahl. Discrimination of Diabetic Patients from Healthy Controls by using metabonomics method based on their Serum Fatty Acid Profiles, Journal of Chromatography B, 2004, 813/1-2: 53-58.

3.      Jun Yang, Guowang Xu, Hongwei Kong, Yufang Zheng, Tao Pang, Qing Yang. (2002) Artificial neural network classification based on high performance liquid chromatography of urinary and serum nucleosides for the clinical diagnosis of cancer, Journal of Chromatography B, 780:27-33.

4.      Jun Yang, Guowang Xu, Yufang Zheng, Hongwei Kong, Chang Wang, Xinjie Zhao, Tao Pang, Strategy for Metabonomics research based on High Performance Liquid Chromatography and LC/MS/MS. Journal of Chromatography A. 2005, 1084: 214-221.

5.      Jun Yang, Xinjie Zhao, Xiaoli Liu，Chang Wang, Peng Gao, Jiangshan Wang, Lanjuan Li, Jianren Gu, Shengli Yang, Guowang Xu. High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry for Metabonomics: Potential Biomarkers for Acute Deterioration in Liver Function of Chronic Hepatitis B. Journal of Proteome Research. 2006, 5: 554-561.