阎莹 教授 博士生导师
E-mail: yanying@ouc.edu.cn
Tel: 0532-82031755
联系地址：青岛市鱼山路5号中国海洋大学敏行馆B座正门205
学习工作简历：
2007.09-2011.07 中国海洋大学，生物科学专业，获学士学位
2011.09-2018.01 中国海洋大学，水生生物学，获博士学位
2018.02-2020.09 Smith College，USA, 博士后
2020.10-至今，青年英才第一层次教授，博士生导师
研究方向：
目前主要以纤毛虫原生动物为研究材料，聚焦于：1）基因组结构演化与适应性进化；2）细胞分裂及生活史转变过程中细胞形态重塑的分子机制。
近年来主持国家自然科学基金面上基金两项，山东省泰山学者青年专家计划，崂山国家实验室科技创新项目子课题等项目。在PNAS, Sci. China Life Sci., Mol. Biol. Evol., J. Genet. Genomics, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., Open Biol.等领域主流期刊发表论文30余篇。
实验室长期欢迎对纤毛虫生物学、基因组演化与细胞分裂机制等方向感兴趣的同学加入。目前博士后、博士研究生和硕士研究生岗位开放，欢迎联系交流。
承担课题：
1、国家自然科学基金面上项目， Mob蛋白家族调控胞质分裂的功能与机制探究：以草履虫为模式 （32570565），2026-01至2029-12，主持
2、国家自然科学基金面上项目，以海洋纤毛虫为材料：大小核基因重组模式及机制探讨（32270558），2023-01至2026-12，主持
3、崂山国家实验室科技创新项目，海洋微型生物多样性格局、演变规律及生态功能（子课题3），2022-10至2027-9，主持
4、山东省泰山学者青年专家计划，2021-01至2025-12，主持
5、山东省高等学校青年创新团队发展计划，2023-01至2027-12，主持
6、中国海洋大学优秀青年科技人才培育计划，2021-01至2023-12，主持
7、国家自然科学基金委员会, 国际(地区)合作与交流项目，纤毛虫原生动物重要代表类群的组学及系统发育基因组学分析（32111530116），2021-04 至 2023-03，参与
代表性论文（*示通讯作者）：
1. Li C, Zhou Z, Wu T, Wang Z, Ji Z, Lu B, Zhang X, Lynch M*, Yan Y*. Cellular remodeling during reversible life-stage transition in sessile ciliates: genomic and transcriptomic insights. Proc Natl Acad Sci.In press.
2. Zhou Z, Gong R, Chi Y, Wang Y, Ye Z, Yan Y*. Contrasting modes of intron evolution in an evolutionarily distinct eukaryotic lineage revealed by comparative genomics of ciliated protists. Mol Biol Evol.In press.
3. Zheng W, Li C, Zhou Z, Chen X, Lynch M*, Yan Y*. Unveiling an ancient whole-genome duplication event in Stentor, the model unicellular eukaryote. Sci China Life Sci. 2025, 68: 825–835.
4.Ma M, Tang D, Song W*, Li L*, Doval IV, Al-Rasheid KAS, Hines HN, Yan Y*. Investigating the psammophilic karyorelictean ciliate families Kentrophoridae and Cryptopharyngidae (Protista, Ciliophora): molecular phylogeny, geographic distributions and a brief revision including descriptions of a new genus, a new species and a new combination. Mar Life Sci Technol. 2025, 7: 23–49.
5. Chen W, Geng Y, Zhang B, Yan Y*, Zhao F*, Miao M*. Stop or not: Genome-wide profiling of reassigned stop codons in ciliates. Mol Biol Evol. 2023, 40: msad064.
6. Lu B, Hu X, Warren A, Song W, Yan Y*. From oral structure to molecular evidence: new insights into the evolutionary phylogeny of the ciliate order Sessilida (Protista, Ciliophora), with the establishment of two new families and new contributions to the poorly studied family Vaginicolidae. Sci China Life Sci. 2023, 66: 1535–1553.
7. Zhang X, Zhao Y, Zheng W, Nan B, Fu J, Qiao Y, Zufall RA, Gao F, Yan Y*. Genome-wide identification of ATP-binding cassette transporter B subfamily, focusing on its structure, evolution and rearrangement in ciliates. Open Biol. 2023, 13: 230111.
8. Ma M, Li Y, Maurer-Alcalá X, Wang YR*, Yan Y*. Deciphering phylogenetic relationships in class Karyorelictea (Protista, Ciliophora) based on updated multi-gene information with establishment of a new order Wilbertomorphida n. ord. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2022, 169: 107406.
9. Ma M, Xu Y, Lu B, Li Y, Song WB, Petroni G, Al-Farrah SA, Yan Y*. Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of four Remanella species (Protozoa, Ciliophora): a flagship genus of karyorelictean ciliates, with descriptions of three new species. Zool Res. 2022, 43: 827–842.
10. Li C, Chen X, Zheng W, Doak TG, Fan G, Song W, Yan Y*. Chromosome organization and gene expansion in the highly fragmented genome of the ciliate Strombidium stylifer. J Genet Genomics. 2021, 48: 908–916.
11. Zheng W, Chen J, Doak TG, Song W, Yan Y*. ADFinder: accurate detection of programmed DNA elimination using NGS high-throughput sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 2020, 36: e225.主讲课程：
《分子生物学》（海德学院）
Dr. Ying Yan:
Education:
B.Sc. Biological Sciences, Ocean University of China (2007-2011)
Ph. D. Hydrobiology, Ocean University of China (2011-2018)
Joint Ph. D. student, Smith College, USA (2015-2017)
Research Interests:
1. exploring nuclear features and genome architecture of understudied ciliates
2. exploring the relationship between patterns of molecular evolution within gene families and variable genome structures found among ciliates.
