Shuya Wang

EDUCATION

PhD in Molecular Biology, UCLA

BS in Molecular Biology, Emory University

AWARDS & HONORS

Pisces Biology Scholarship

HKSAR Government Scholarship

George G. & Betsy H. Laties Graduate Fellowship in Molecular Plant Biology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Wang, Shuya, Tong Li, Matthew Naish, Russell Chuang, Evan K Lin, Christian Fonkalsrud, He Yan, et al. "CDCA7 Facilitates Met1-Mediated CG DNA Methylation Maintenance in Centromeric Heterochromatin Via Histone H1." PNAS In press (2025).

Wang, Shuya, Ming Wang, Lucia Ichino, Brandon A Boone, Zhenhui Zhong, Ranjith K Papareddy, Evan K Lin, et al. "MBD2 Couples DNA Methylation to Transposable Element Silencing During Male Gametogenesis." Nature Plants 10, no. 1 (2024): 13-24.

Wu, Zhongshou, Yan Xue, Shuya Wang, Yuan-Hsin Shih, Zhenhui Zhong, Suhua Feng, Jonathan Draper, et al. "REM Transcription Factors and GDE1 Shape the DNA Methylation Landscape through the Recruitment of RNA Polymerase IV Transcription Complexes." Nature Cell Biology (2025): 1-12.

Boone, Brandon A, Lucia Ichino, Shuya Wang, Jason Gardiner, Jaewon Yun, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, Jihui Sha, et al. "ACD15, ACD21, and SLN Regulate the Accumulation and Mobility of MBD6 to Silence Genes and Transposable Elements." Science advances 9, no. 46 (2023): eadi9036.

Wang, Ming, Yan He, Zhenhui Zhong, Ashot Papikian, Shuya Wang, Jason Gardiner, Basudev Ghoshal, et al. "Histone H3 Lysine 4 Methylation Recruits DNA Demethylases to Enforce Gene Expression in Arabidopsis." Nature Plants 11, no. 2 (2025): 206-17.

Ichino, Lucia, Colette L Picard, Jaewon Yun, Meera Chotai, Shuya Wang, Evan K Lin, Ranjith K Papareddy, Yan Xue, and Steven E Jacobsen. "Single-Nucleus RNA-Seq Reveals That MBD5, MBD6, and SILENZIO Maintain Silencing in the Vegetative Cell of Developing Pollen." Cell Reports 41, no. 8 (2022).

Jiang, Yuchao, Mingjun Duan, Xi Chen, Xingxing Zhang, Jinnan Gong, Debo Dong, Hui Li, Qizhong Yi, Shuya Wang, et al. "Aberrant Prefrontal–Thalamic–Cerebellar Circuit in Schizophrenia and Depression: Evidence from a Possible Causal Connectivity." International journal of neural systems 29, no. 05 (2019): 1850032.