Welcome to Yunjia!

Yunjia Tang presenting her research to the DynaMo Group on 11 June 2012.

Yunjia Tang new Postdoc at DynaMo

On 1 June 2012 Yunjia Tang joined DynaMo as a Postdoc fellow.

Yunjia has a BSc in Biology and Biotechnology from Beijing Normal University, China, and a MSc in Aquaculture from University of Nordland, Norway. Yunjia   received her PhD degree from University of Tromsø, Norway, on a project named Molecular characteristics of the Naegleria GIR1 branching ribozyme. The aim of this work was to find and characterize variants of a new class of ribozymes, the GIR1 branching ribozyme. This ribozyme forms a tiny lariat at the 5’ end of an mRNA and substitute for a conventional cap. Yunjia is skilled in all of the general methods in RNA biology and molecular biology.

At DynaMo Yunjia will work on projects finding the molecular targets for RNA-mediated regulation and metabolite sensing.