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Contact Information

Phone: (612) 624-9854 Office
(612) 625-0875 Lab
Fax: (612) 626-0781

Email: yuanx019@umn.edu

Address:
Department of Ophthalmology
326 Lions Research Bldg
2001 6th St S E
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Research

• Stromal corneal dystrophies
• Corneal fibrosis
• Glaucoma

Education and Training

Graduate School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Post-doc: Baylor College of Medicine

Honors and Awards

ARVO Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society Travel Award, 2003

Graduate School Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997

Published Works

1. H. Berscheit, M. Little, A. S. Cho, A.J.W. Huang & C. Yuan. “Denaturation and solvent effect on the conformation and fibril formation of TGFBIp” Molecular Vision 2009, 15, 2617-2626. 

2. C. Yuan, E. J. Zins, A.F. Clark & A.J.W. Huang. “Suppression of keratoepithelin and myocilin by small Interfering RNAs (siRNA) in vitro” Molecular Vision 2007, 13, 2083-2095.

3. C. Yuan, H. Berscheit & A. J.W. Huang “Identification of an amyloidogenic region on keratoepithelin via synthetic peptides” FEBS Letters, 2007, 58(2): 241-247.

4. X. Zhang, T.G. Wensel & C. Yuan. “Tokay gecko photoreceptors achieve rod-like physiology with cone-like proteins” Photochemistry and Photobiology 2006, 84(2): 1452-1460.

5. C. S. Boehlke, C. Yuan, W. W.-Y. Kao &A. J.W. Huang. “Cytokeratin 12 in human ocular surface epithelia is the antigen reactive with a commercial Anti-Gq Antibody” Molecular Vision 2004, 10: 867-873

6. Z. Zhang, T. J. Melia1, F. He, C. Yuan, A. McGough, M.F. Schmid & T. G. Wensel. “How a G protein binds a membrane”Journal of Biological Chemistry 2004, 279: 33937-33945.

7. C. Yuan, M.C. Yang, E. J. Zins, C. S. Boehlke & A.J.W. Huang. “Identification of the promoter region of the human βIGH3 gene” Molecular Vision2004, 10: 351-360.

8. C. Yuan, J. Reuters L. Lee & A. J. W. Huang. “Optimized expression and refolding of human keratoepithelin in BL21(DE3)” Protein Expression and Purification 2004,35(1): 39-45.