Undergraduate Education:
Undergraduate Degree: BS in Biology
Undergraduate Institution: Brown University

Research Project Information

To investigate whether metastatic breast carcinoma cells require E-cadherin re-expression to integrate and to confer a survival advantage in the liver, a common site of breast cancer metastases.

Publications

Yeh JJ, Munson K, Chao Y, Peterson QP, MacRae CA, Peterson RT (2008). AML1-ETO reprograms hematopoietic cell fate by downregulating scl expression. Development. Jan;135(2):401-10.

De Paepe ME, Mao Q, Chao Y, Powell JL, Rubin LP, Sharma S. (2005). Hyperoxia-induced apoptosis and Fas/FasL expression in lung epithelial cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. Oct;289(4):L647-59.

Zhou HW, Nussbaumer C, Chao Y, DeLong A. (2004). Disparate roles for the regulatory A subunit isoforms in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. Mar;16(3):709-2

Abstracts:

DePaepe ME, Chao Y, Mao QF. (2004). Hyperoxia-induced apoptosis and apoptotic gene expression in lung epithelial cells. Developmental Biology of the Lung, Montreal, Canada, May.

Presentations:

Chao Y, Shepard CR, Wells, A. ¡°E-cadherin as a chemotherapy resistance mechanism for breast cancer metastasis.¡± ACLPS. Philiadelphia, PA. June 2008.

Honors:

Young Investigator Award, Academy of Clinical Physicians and Scientists, 2008
William Gaston Premium Scholarship in Biology, 2004