Ph.D, in Biochemistry, bioinformatics and biological statistics fields, Iowa State University, May 2008.  Advisor: Robert Jernigan,

M.S. in Pharmacology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 2001

B.S. in Biology,  NanKai University, Tianjin, China, June 1998

Experience in bioinformatics tools: PDB, BLAST, VMD, CHARMM, CABS etc.

Experience in statistical software: SAS, R and Sigmaplot

Experience in database query language: SQL, JDBC, XML

Experience in programming using C++, perl and Matlab

Familiarity with Linux/Unix, Microsoft windows

Familiarity with wet lab technologies in molecular biology, biochemistry and pharmacology

Fluency in both Chinese and English

Research Assistant in the department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, 2002-Present
-- Development of new statistical potentials for protein structure prediction
--Studied residue packing of proteins using probability and statistics methods
--Combination of elastic network model and MC algorithm for studying protein conformational change

Research Assistant in Pharmacology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1998-2001
-- Studied the structure and function of opioid receptors and the binding of analgesia (pain relieve) drugs
-- Experience in these biological technologies: molecular cloning, cell culture and protein expression, protein separation and purification, drug and receptor binding

Employee in the department of research and development, Jianfeng Pharmaceutical Company, China, 2001-2002
--Coordinator of clinical trial

Feng YP, Kloczkowski K, Jernigan RL. Orientational distributions of contact clusters in proteins closely resemble those of an icosahedron.(Accepted, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics)

Feng YP, Kloczkowski K, Jernigan RL. Four-body contact potentials derived from two protein datasets to discriminate native structures from decoys. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 68: 57 – 66, 2007

Taner, S.T., Feng, Y, Garcia, J.V., Kloczkowski, A., Jernigan, R.L. The extent of cooperativity of protein motions observed with elastic network models is similar for atomic and coarser-grained models. Journal of Chemical theory and computation. J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2 (3), 696 -704, 2006.

Feng YP, Chen LW, Zhou DH, Chen J, Xu XJ, Chi ZQ. Analysis of binding domain and function of chimeric mu/kappa opioid receptors to ohmefentanyl stereoisomers. Acta Pharmacol Sin. Nov;22(11):981-5, 2001

Chen LW, Feng YP, Zhou DH , Xu XJ, Chen J, Wei Q, and Chi ZQ. One-Step Affinity Purification of Human Mu-Opioid Receptor Overexpressed in Baculovirus System. Protein and Peptide Letters, 8(4):265-272, 2001

Wan XH, Huang XQ, Zhou DH, Jiang HL, Feng YP, Chen KX, and Chi ZQ Molecular Modeling of Kappa Opioid Receptor-Gi Protein Recognition. Protein and Peptide Letters, 7(6):403-409, 2000

New statistical potentials for improved threading. The Biophysical Society 51^st Annual Meeting, March 2007, Baltimore, Maryland

Four-body contact potentials derived from two datasets to determine native structures from decoys. The 5^th Annual Joint Bioinformatics Workshop between UI and ISU, July 2005, Iowa City, IA, USA.

Teaching Assistant, Survey of Biochemistry (BBMB301), Fall 2005

Teaching Assistant, Biochemistry (BBMB405), Spring 2005
 

Research Excellence Award, Iowa State University, 2007

Premium for Academic Excellence (PACE) Award, Iowa State University, 2002