Education

Ph.D, University of Connecticut Health Center. (Advisor: Dr. Greg Huber)

M.E., Xi'an Jiaotong University, Mechanical Engineering.

B.E., Xi'an Jiaotong University, Mechanical Engineering.

Research Interests

Cell Motility; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Biophysical Modeling; Fluid Dynamics; Differential Geometry; Elasticity; Microfluidics; Cell mechanics; Biological Engineering.  

Publications

1. M. I. Choudhury, Y. Li, P. Mistriotis, A. C. N. Vasconcelos, E. E. Dixon, J. Yang, M. Benson, D. Maity, R. Walker, L. Martin, F. Koroma, F. Qian, K. Konstantopoulos, O. M. Woodward, S. X. Sun, Kidney epithelial cells are active mechano-biological fluid pumps, Nature Communication 13 (2022) 2317; (DOI:10.1038/s41467-022-29988-w).

2. H. Wang, Y. Li, J. Yang, X. Duan, P. Kalab, S. X. Sun, R. Li, Symmetry breaking in hydrodynamic forces drives meiotic spindle rotation in mammalian oocytes, Science Advances 6 (2020) eaaz5004; (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5004).

3. X. Duan, Y. Li, K. Yi, F. Guo, H. Wang, P. Wu, J. Yang, D. B. Mair, E. A. Morales, P. Kalab, D. Wirtz, S. X. Sun, R, Li, Dynamic organelle distribution initiates actin-based spindle migration in mouse oocytes, Nature Communications 11 (2020) 277.

4. J. Yang, X. Duan, A. K. Fraser, M. I. Choudhury, A. J. Ewald, R. Li, X. S. Sun, Microscale pressure measurements based on an immiscible fluid/fluid interface. Sci Rep 9 (2019) 20044; (DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-56573-x).

5. J. Yang, I. Kupka, Z. Schuss, and D. Holcman, Search for a small egg by spermatozoa in restricted geometries, Journal of Mathematical Biology 73 (2016) 423–446.

6. J. Xi, Z. Zhang, X. A.l Si, J. Yang, and W. Deng, Optimization of magnetophoretic-guided drug delivery to the olfactory region in a human nose model, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 15 (2016) 877-891; (DOI:10.1007/s10237-015-0730-9).

7. B. Qin, A. Gopinath, J. Yang, J. P. Gollub, and P. E. Arratia, Flagellar Kinematics and Swimming of Algal Cells in Viscoelastic Fluids. Sci. Rep. 5 (2015) 9190; (DOI:10.1038/srep09190).

8. J. Yang, C. W. Wolgemuth, and G. Huber, Junctional angle of a bihanded helix, Physical Review E 90 (2014) 042722.

9. J. Yang, C. W. Wolgemuth, and G. Huber, Force and torque on a cylinder rotating in a narrow gap at low Reynolds number: Scaling and lubrication analyses, Physics of Fluids 25 (2013) 051901.

10. J. Yang, G. Huber, and C. W. Wolgemuth, Forces and Torques on Rotating Spirochete Flagella, Physical Review Letters 107 (2011) 268101.

11. G. Huber, S. A. Koehler, and J. Yang, Micro-swimmers with hydrodynamic interactions, Mathematical and Computer Modelling 53 (2011) 1518-1526.

12. J. Yang, C.W. Wolgemuth, and G. Huber, Kinematics of the Swimming of Spiroplasma, Physical Review Letters 102 (2009) 218102.

Miscellaneous

• Note: After migrating into new google site, the linked files for downloading are not available any more.

• A simple, elegant solution of a million dollar question: How many ways to change a dollar?

• Elevator problem: Which floor the elevator should stay when idle to make it more efficient? Here is the solution:

• A highlight report of our Spiroplasma paper on UCONN TODAY and Sciencenews.org.

• Chlamydomonas paper in a news report (Swimming algae offer insights into living fluid dynamics) on Phys.org.

• Full solution (around two and a half million solutions) of the 3x3x3 snake cube game (the Mathematica file for getting the solutions is here). If you have Mathematica, you can use the included Mathematica notebook import the result and find the solutions for your snake. Otherwise, you can just open the file "3x3_CS.dat" with any text editor, and search for the string of your snake, then the solution in the file "3x3.dat" having the same line number. To write down the string of your snake, you can flat your snake, and the cube having the elastic runs straight through is "S", otherwise "C" for turning 90 degree, "E" for the cubes at the end (ignored here). For example, "ESCCCSCSCCCCCCCCCCCCCSCSCCE" for Kev's Kubes (see the left picture below). Snake cube code is similar to genetic code, such as "ACUACCACAACG...", so the same idea might be able to apply for studying DNA folding or protein folding.

     (Left) Kev's Kubes; (Right) Snake cube after folding, as well as the Mathematica program designed for obtaining solutions.

• Winner of Math prize of 2018 Pineapple Science Award (2018菠萝科学奖数学奖), a parody of the US-based Ig Nobel Awards.

Contact

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Email: dr.yangjing(at)gmail.com