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Youren Tong, Ph.D.
ytong@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
617-525-5129

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POSITION TITLE: Research Fellow

EDUCATION:

1993
Fudan University, Shanghai, China, B.S.,
1996
Zhejiang Agricultural University, China, M.S., Plant Pathology
2004
Kansas State University, Ph.D., Biochemistry

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2004-
Research Fellow
Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
PUBLICATIONS:
  1. Youren Tong, Zhichao Ma, Weiliang Chen, and Debao Li. (1999) Purification and partial characterization of antagonistic proteins from Bacillus subtilis B034. Acta Microbiologica Sinica 39, 339-343

  2. Sheng Ye, Amy L. Cech, Ricardo Belmares, Robert C. Bergstrom, Youren Tong, David R. Corey, Michael R. Kanost, and Elizabeth J. Goldsmith. (2001) The structure of a Michaelis serpin-protease complex. Nat. Struct. Biol. 8, 979-983

  3. Youren Tong, and Michael R. Kanost. (2005) Manduca sexta serpin-4 and serpin-5 inhibit the prophenol oxidase activation pathway: cDNA cloning, protein expression, and characterization. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 14923-14931.

  4. Youren Tong, Haobo Jiang, and Michael R. Kanost. (2005) Identification of plasma proteases inhibited by Manduca sexta serpin-4 and serpin-5 and their association with components of the prophenol oxidase activation pathway. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 14932-14942.

  5. Matthew S. Goldberg, Antonio Pisani, Marian Haburcak, Timothy A. Vortherms, Tohru Kitada, Cinzia Costa, Youren Tong, Giuseppina Martella, Anne Tscherter, Andrea Martins, Bryan L. Roth, Emmanuel N. Pothos, Paolo Calabresi, and Jie Shen. (2005) Nigrostriatal dopaminergic deficits and hypokinesia caused by inactivation of the familial Parkinsonism-linked gene DJ-1. Neuron 45, 489-496.

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