To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower William Blake Yang’s Group

Mass Spectrometry

Proteomics

Single Cell

Analysis

Enhanced Data

Analysis

Spheroids

Analysis

Tissue

Imaging

Research in the Yang laboratory centers on mass spectrometry.

Group News

2024
Congratulations to group members received OU awards in 2024: Zongkai Peng (Sherril D. Christian Scholarship), Amit Singh (Outstanding Advanced Lab Graduate Teaching Assistant Award ), and Nathan Cowel (Outstanding General Chemistry Graduate Teaching Assistant Award)!
2023
ZouZhu successfully defended his PhD dissertation in December 2023. Congratulatoins Dr. Zou!
Yunpeng Lan successfully defended his PhD dissertation in December 2023. Congratulatoins Dr. Lan!
Tra Nguyen successfully defended her PhD dissertation in December 2023. Congratulatoins Dr. Nguyen!
Congratulations to group members received OU awards in 2023: Tra Nguyen (Lloyd E. Swearingen Award), Yunpeng Lan (The Dodge Family College of Arts and Science Research and Dissertation Fellowship), Zongkai Peng (Graduate Teaching Assistant Award and Robberson Travel Grant), and Zhu Zou (Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award)!
Drs. Doris Benbrook (PI), Anthony Burgett (Co-PI), and Yang (Co-PI) have received a DoD grant!
Drs. Yang (PI) and Linda Atkinson (co-PI) have received an NSF grant!
Drs. Laura-Isobel McCall (multi PI), Yang (multi PI), Carolyn Ibberson (collaborator), and James Papin (collaborator) have received an NIH-RO1 grant!
Drs. Laura-Isobel McCall (co-PI) and Yang (co-PI) have received a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative award!
2022
Piliang Xiang successfully defended her PhD dissertation in July 2020. Congratulatoins Dr. Xiang!
Congratulations to group members received OU awards in 2021: Tra Nguyen (Outstanding Graduate GenChem Teaching Assistant Award), Yunpeng Lan (Graduate Student Senate Grant, Poster award, the Annual Cancer Research Symposium, and Robberson Travel Grant), and Zhu Zou (Roland E. Lehr Scholarship)!
2021
Piliang Xiang successfully defended her PhD dissertation in July 2020. Congratulatoins Dr. Xiang!
Congratulations to group members received OU awards in 2021: Tra Nguyen (Outstanding Graduate GenChem Teaching Assistant Award), Yunpeng Lan (Robberson Research Grant), and Zhu Zou (Robberson Research Grant and Roger E. Frech Scholarship)!
Drs. Yihan Shao (PI) and Yang (Co-PI) have received an NSF grant!
2020
Yanlin Zhu successfully defended her PhD dissertation in July 2020. Congratulatoins Dr. Zhu!
Tra Nguyen and Yunpeng Lan gave an oral presentation of MS studies of Chagas disease at the single-cell level in the 68th ASMS Conference !
Congratulations to Devon Colby for receiving two national awards: Goldwater Scholarship and Astronaut Scholarship !
Congratulations to group members received OU awards in 2020: Yanlin Zhu (Lloyd E. Swearingen Research Award) and Zhu Zou (Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award)!
Congratulations to Xingxiu Chen for receiving 2020 Research Travel Awards from the OU Stephenson Cancer Center !
2019
Xiang Tian successfully defended his PhD dissertation in November 2019. Congratulatoins Dr. Tian!
Renmeng Liu, Shawna Standke, and Mei Sun successfully defended their PhD dissertations in May 2019. Congratulatoins Drs. Liu, Standke, and Sun!
Shelby Beasley gave an oral presentation of MS studies of single metastatic cancer cells in the 67th ASMS Conference !
Congratulations to Shelby Beasley for receiving 2019 ASMS Undergraduate Student Travel Award !
Congratulations to group member received OU awards in 2019: Renmeng Liu (Sherril D. Christian Award), Xingxiu Chen (Provost’s Certificate for Distinction in Teaching), Shawna Standke (Lloyd E. Swearingen Research Award), Zhu Zou (Graduate Student Senate Research Grant), Devon Colby (Dick Van der Helm Scholarship)!
Congratulations to Mei Sun and Yanlin Zhu for receiving 2019 Research Travel Awards from the OU Stephenson Cancer Center !
2018
Congratulations to Mei Sun for receiving 2018 ASMS Graduate Student Travel Award !
Congratulations to Devon Colby for receiving 2018 ASMS Undergraduate Student Travel Award !
Dr. Ning Pan gave an oral presentation of quantitative analysis of anticancer drug in single cancer cells in the 66th ASMS Conference !
Xiang Tian gave an oral presentation of MS imaging combined with advanced data analysis in the 66th ASMS Conference !
Congratulations to group member received OU awards in 2018: Mei Sun (Lloyd E. Swearingen Award), (Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award), and Devon Colby (John Laing Award)!
2017
Dr. Ning Pan gave an oral presentation of recent progress of quantitative single cell MS analysis in the 65th ASMS Conference !
Xiang Tian gave an oral presentation of anticancer drug penetration in live tumor spheroids in the 65th ASMS Conference !
Congratulations to group member received OU award in 2017: Shawna Standke (Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award) !
2016
Our recent paper uses videos to described the Single-probe techniques and their applications to single cell analysis and tissue imaging: Wei Rao, Ning Pan, Zhibo Yang*, Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2016, 112, e53911, (doi:10.3791/53911).
Dr. Ning Pan gave an oral presentation of quantitative single cell MS analysis in the 64th ASMS Conference !
Congratulations to group member received OU award in 2016: Rachel Vowcicefski (Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award) and Shawna Standke (Provost’s Certificate for Distinction in Teaching)!
Drs. Burgett (PI), Yang (Co-I), and Heinlen (collaborator) have received a NIH R21 research grant !
Drs. Yang (co-PI) and Libault (co-PI) have redeived an NSF EPSCoR REU grant!
Drs. Wawrik (PI) and Yang (Co-PI) have received an NSF grant!
2015
Drs. Yang (PI), Mao (Co-I), and Burgett (collaborator) have received an NIH RO1 research grant !
Renmeng Liu gave an oral presentation about single cell studies in the 63rd ASMS Conference !
Dr. Yang is on the Phase 1 Finalists of Follow that Cell Challenge program, NIH !
Congratulations to group members received OU awards in 2015: Renmeng Liu (Lloyd E. Swearingen Award), Shawna Standke (First Year Graduate Teaching Award), and Jeffrey Green (John Laing Award) !
2014
Our first paper of mass spectrometry imaging has been published on JASMS !
Our single cell mass spectrometry research has been reported by Chemistry World and C&E News !
Our first paper of single cell mass spectrometry studies has been published on Analytical Chemistry !
Dr. Yang has received the 2014 ASMS (American Society for Mass Spectrometry) Research Award !
Dr. Yang has received 2014 OCAST (Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology) Health research grant !
Congratulations to group members received the departmental awards in 2014: Rachel Vowcicefski (First Year Graduate Teaching Award) and Maria Thomas (Best FYRE Student) !