Steven Siyuan Wang

Graduate Student
Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology
Department of Molecular Biology
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University

Education

B. S., Department of Physics, Peking University, 2003-2007.
Ph. D. student, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, 2007-now.

Research Experience

In Peking University, I studied biological network dynamics in the Center for Theoretical Biology for three years under the direction of Professor Qi Quyang. My graduation thesis on gene regulatory network simulation was co-advised by Professor Ouyang and Professor Ned Wingreen from Princeton University.

In Princeton University, I did my first year rotations with Professors Edward Cox, Joshua Shaevitz, Zemer Gitai and Leonid Kruglyak. Coming from a theoretical background, I designedly chose all my rotation projects in the field of experimental biology and biophysics. By the end of the year, I have received training in both traditional molecular biology, and state-of-the-art force microscopy technologies. The model organisms I worked on included bacteria Escherichia coli, Caulobacter crescentus, budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

My Ph. D. thesis project is going to be co-advised by Professors Ned Wingreen and Joshua Shaevitz. Utilizing a combination of theoretical and experimental approaches, I will start with questions related to cell shape and cell growth.

Publications

[1] Siyuan Wang, Yuping Zhang and Qi Ouyang, Stochastic model of coliphage lambda regulatory network, Physical Review E, Vol. 73, No. 041922, (2006). (PDF)
[2] Ming Ni, Siyuan Wang, Jikun Li and Qi Ouyang, Simulating the temporal modulation of inducible DNA damage response in Escherichia coli, Biophysical Journal, Vol. 93, 62-73, (2007). (PDF)
[3] Ming Ni*, Siyuan Wang* and Qi Ouyang, Modelling the SOS response by semi-stochastic simulation, Chinese Physics Letters, Vol. 25, No. 7, 2702-2705, (2008). *These authors contributed equally to this work. (PDF)