Frontiers in Science

Frontiers in Science is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of science and technology.


Yinghui Dan

Editorial Board Member of Frontiers in Science

Research Scientist, Institute for Advanced Learning & Research and Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University, USA

Research Areas

1) Plant genetic engineering, 2) Plant molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 3) plant functional genomics, 4) plant molecular breeding and 5) plant tissue culture

Education

1994Ph.D.Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.
1987-1988Ph.D.Genetics and Plant breeding, Paris XI University, Paris, France; and Institute of Phytophysiology of National Scientific Research Center, Paris, France
1987M.S. Genetics and Plant Breeding, Paris XI University, Paris, France
B.S.Agronomy, Southwest Agricultural University, P.R. China.

Experience

2005-presentAdjunct Professor, Department of Forestry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
2003-presentAdjunct Professor, Department of Horticulture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
2005-2008Faculty, Research Assistant Professor, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Danville, Virginia, USA.
2003-2005Principal Investigator/Functional Genomic Team Leader/SRS, VBI, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
1999-2002Senior Scientist, Monsanto Co., St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
1995-1997Post Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA.
1997-1998PostDoctoral Scientist, Monsanto Co., St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Academic Achievement

2011-2012, Biographical record selected in Marquis' "Who's Who in America"

Membership

A member of the Society for In Vitro Biology
A member of American Society of Plant Biologists
A member of The International Association for Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology
2010-present, A member of Education Committee of the Society for In Vitro Biology

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Veilleux, R.E., Oosumi, T., Wadl, P.A., Baxter, A.J., Holt, S.H., Ruiz-Rojas, J.J., Pattison, J., Flinn, B., Yinghui Dan, Nessler, C. and Shulaev, V. 2011. Insertional mutagenesis in the diploid strawberry (Fragaria vesca). Acta Hort. 941:49-54.
[2]  Yinghui Dan and David W. Ow (Eds). 2011. Historical Technology Developments in Plant Transformation, Vol. 1. Plant transformation technology revolution in last 27 years. Bentham Science Publishers, Oak Park, USA. ISSN: 2211-2936; eISBN: 978-1-60805-248-6, 2011.--- Invited main editor for this e-book series by Bentham Science Publishers.
[3]  Yinghui Dan. 2011. Plant Transformation Challenge, Solution and Mechanism Behind. 1st Annual World Congress of Agricultural Biotechnology, Oct 28-30, 2011, Changchun, China.
[4]  Richard E. Veilleux, Kerri P. Mills, Robert C. Lindsay, Aaron J. Baxter, Nan Lu, Cherish M. Davis, Juan Jairo Ruiz-Rojas, Kendall T. Upham, Sarah H. Holt, Tammy J. Ferguson, Christopher J. Pantazis, Yinghui Dan, Allan Dickerman, Vladimir Shulaev. 2011. Transposon tagging in the diploid strawberry. American Society for Horticulture Science. Sept. 25 – 28, 2011, Hawaii, USA (Abstract).
[5]  SH Holt, V Shulaev, RE Veilleux, Yinghui Dan . 2011. Molecular Characterization of an Anthocyanin Deficient Mutant in Woodland Strawberry, Fragaria vesca. 6th International Workshop on Anthocyanins, pp 65, Sept. 11-14, 2011, Charlotte, NC, USA (Abstract).
[6]  Yinghui Dan, Amanda Matherly, Song Zhang and Rubina Ahsan. 2011. Biochemical and Molecular Elucidation of Tissue Death during Agrobacterium-Mediated Plant Transformation. International Conference of Plant Transformation Technologies II. Program and Abstract, Vienna, Austria. Page 102.
[7]  Yinghui Dan. 2011. MicroTom---A Model System for Translational Genomics. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol.-Plant 47:S25. (Abstract)---Invited talk.
[8]  Yinghui Dan. 2011. Biological, Biochemical and Molecular Dissection of Tissue Browning and Death during Agrobacterium-Mediated Plant Transformation. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol.-Plant 47:S18. (Abstract).---Invited talk.
[9]  Holt SH, Yinghui Dan, Shulaev V, Veilleux, RE. 2011. Flower and fruit developmental defects caused by a spontaneous DNA deletion in a SEPALLATA3-like gene in Fragaria vesca. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol.-Plant 47:S35 (Abstract).---1st Place for Ph. D. student oral presentation competition Yinghui Dan, Aaron Baxter, Song Zhang, Christopher Pantazis, Richard E. Veilleux. 2010. Development of efficient Agrobacterium-eediated eransformation eystem for Impatiens using in vitro multiple bud cultures as explants. BMC Plant Biology. 10:165 BMC Plant Biology: Most viewed articles in 2010 (Accesses 3661).
[10]  Yinghui Dan, Song Zhang,Liang Shi, Heng Zhong, Thomas Chenier, Timothy Hawkes, Eric Clarke, Manuel Sainz. 2010. Anti-Oxidative Compounds Enhancing Plant Transformation. 12th World Congress of the International Association for Plant Biotechnology, June 6-11, 2010, St. Louis, Missouri USA (Abstract).
[11]  Song Zhang, Liang Shi, Heng Zhong, Thomas Chenier, Timothy Hawkes, Eric Clarke, Manuel Sainz, Yinghui Dan. 2010. Biological roles of antioxidative compounds in Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tomato cv. MicroTom. 12th World Congress of the International Association for Plant Biotechnology, June 6-11, 2010, St. Louis, Missouri USA (Abstract).
[12]  Richard E. Veilleux, Teruko Oosumi, Aaron J. Baxter, Sarah H. Holt, Juan J. Ruiz-Rojas, Jeremy Pattison, Barry Flinn, Yinghui Dan, Craig Nessler, Vladimir Shulaev. 2010. Insertional mutagenesis in the diploid strawberry, Fragaria vesca. (under review by Acta Horticulturae ).
[13]  Veilleux, RE, JJ Ruiz-Rojas, KP Mills, CM Davis, RC Lindsay, T Ferguson, SH Holt, C Pantazas, Yinghui Dan, and V Shulaev. 2010. Insertional mutants in diploid strawberry. Plant and Animal Genome XVIII Conference, Jan. 9-13, San Diego, California, USA (Abstract).
[14]  Holt, SH, JJ Ruiz-Rojas, Yinghui Dan, V Shulaev and RE Veilleux. 2010. Characterization of insertional mutants in Fragaria vesca. Plant and Animal Genome XVIII Conference, Jan. 9-13, San Diego, California, USA (Abstarct).
[15]  Yinghui Dan, Charles L. Armstrong, Jimmy Dong, Xiaorong Feng, Joyce E. Fry, Greg E. Keithly, Brian J. Martinell, Gail A. Roberts, Lori A. Smith, Lalaine Tan, David R. Duncan. 2009. Lipoic Acid----A Unique Plant Transformation Enhancer. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol.-Plant. 45(6):630-638.
[16]  Yinghui Dan, Pantazis Christopher. 2009. Hellebores Micropropagation. Plant Biology 2009, July 18-22, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (Abstract).
[17]  Rumen Conev, Lisa Lipsey, Jeffrey Miller, Frederic Duis, Linda Pinkham, John Wise, Douglas Hensel, William McCalleb, Gregory Eaton, Richard Baker, Barry Flinn, Zhiwu Li, Yinghui Dan, M. Javed Iqbal, Kedong Da, Brian O’Neil and Jerzy Nowak. 2009. Strategies for Evaluation and Introduction of Ornamental Germplasm in Virginia. HortScience 44(3): 580-581. (Abstract).
[18]  Veilleux RE, TJ Ferguson, JJ Ruiz Rojas, J Pattison, Yinghui Dan, SH Holt, C Pantazis, KP Mills, CM Davis, B Flinn, CL Nessler, V Shulaev. 2009. Strawberry Insertional Mutants Derived From Three Different Vectors. Plant and Animal Genomes XVII Conf, Jan.10-14, San Diego, USA (Abstract).
[19]  Yinghui Dan. 2008. Biological Functions of Antioxidants in Plant Transformation. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol.-Plant 44 (3) 149-161.---Invited Review Article.
[20]  Yinghui Dan and Richard E. Veilleux. 2008. Asparagus. In: Compendium of Transgenic Crop Plants: Transgenic Vegetable Crops. C. Kole and T. C. Hall (eds.). Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp 205-216.---Invited book chapter
[21]  Christopher Pantazis, Barry S. Flinn, Richard E. Veilleux, Jeremy Pattison, Craig Nessler, Vladimir Shulaev and Yinghui Dan. 2008. Strawberry transformation using kanamycin selection. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol.-Plant 44:S65. (Abstract)
[22]  Yinghui Dan, Zhangjun Fei and Christophe Rothan. 2007. MicroTom---A New Model Plant for Genomics. Genes, Genomes and Genomics 1(2): 167-179.---Invited Review Article.
[23]  Yinghui Dan, Aaron Baxter, Richard E. Veilleux. 2007. Development of a New Regeneration and Transformation System for Impatiens. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol. 43:S27 (Abstract).
[24]  Yinghui Dan, R. E. Rothrock. 2007. Development of an Efficient Micropropagation System for Helleborus. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol. 43:S48 (Abstract).
[25]  Yinghui Dan, Hua Yan, Tichafa Munyikwa, Jimmy Dong, Yanling Zhang, and Charles L. Armstrong. 2006. MicroTom---A High-Throughput Model Transformation System for Functional Genomics. Plant Cell Reports 25:432-441.
[26]  Yinghui Dan. 2006. High Throughput Transformation and Micropropagation Opportunities for Crop Development. In 11th International Association for Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology Congrass “Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond”, Beijing, China, p.70 (abstract).
[27]  Yinghui Dan. 2006. A Novel Plant Transformation Technology---Lipoic Acid. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol. 42:18A (Abstract).
[28]  Yinghui Dan, C. L. Armstrong, J. Dong, X. Feng, J. E. Fry, G. E. Keithly, B. J. Martinell, K. A. Rayford, G. A. Roberts, C. Rommens, L. A. Smith, L. Tan, D. R. Duncan. 2006. A Novel Plant Transformation Enhancer. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol. 42:41-A (Abstract).
[29]  Yinghui Dan. 2004. Plant pathogen genomics and transformation. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 40: VII-A (Abstract).
[30]  Yinghui Dan, Ming Cheng, Jimmy Dong, David R. Duncan, Xiaorong Feng, Lori A. Julson, Greg E. Keithly, Kim A. Rayford, Gail A. Roberts, Caius Rommens, Nina Sidorova, Lalaine Tan, Charles L. Armstrong. Lipoic acid---A novel transformation enhancer. 2002. St. Louis Monsanto Publication, MSL-17631.
[31]  Yinghui Dan, Hua Yan, Tichafa Munyikwa, Jimmy Dong, Yanling Zhang, and Caius Rommens. 2002. A novel high throughput model transformation system for functional genomics. St. Louis Monsanto Publication, MSL-17630.
[32]  Yinghui Dan, Tishu Cai and Joyce Fry. 2002. A novel meristem regeneration for wheat. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 38: 114-A (Abstract).
[33]  Yinghui Dan, Hua Yan, Tichafa Munyikwa, Jimmy Dong, Bei Zhang, Linda K. Lahman, Caius Rommens. 2001. MicroTom---A Model Functional Genomic Assay. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 38: 22-A (Abstract).
[34]  Yinghui Dan, Jimmy Dong, Hua Yan, Tichafa Munyikwa, Yanling Zhang, Caius Rommens. 2001. MicroTom as A High Efficient Model Transformation System. 2001., 2001 ASA, CSSA, and SSA Meeting (Abstract).
[35]  Yinghui Dan, Jimmy Dong, Hua Yan, Tichafa Munyikwa, Yanling Zhang, and Caius Rommens. 2001. A High Efficient Model Transformation System. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 37 (6): 854 (Abstract).
[36]  Yinghui Dan and Nancy A. Reichert. 1998. Organogenic regeneration of soybean from hypocotyl explants. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 34: 14-21
[37]  Yinghui Dan, L.L. Mcdougald, J.M. Tyler, N.A. Reichert. 1998. Organogenic regeneration of soybean from hypocotyl explants and progeny analyses. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 34 (3): 69-A. (Abstract)
[38]  L.L. Mcdougald, Yinghui Dan, N.A. Reichert. 1998. Biolistic- mediated transformation and regeneration of soybean. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 34 (3): 52-A. (Abstract)
[39]  Yinghui Dan and Nancy A. Reichert. 1997. Soybean regeneration from hypocotyl explant and transformation via particle bombardment. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 33:67A (Abstract).
[40]  Yinghui Dan and C.T. Stephens. 1997. DNA polymorphisms in somaclonal variants of Asparagus officinalis L., resistant to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. asparagi. Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology 3 (2):89-96.
[41]  Yinghui Dan and C.T. Stephens. 1995. The development of asparagus somaclones with high levels of resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. asparagi and F. proliferatum. Plant Dis. 79:923-927.
[42]  Yinghui Dan and C.T. Stephens. 1994. Regeneration of Plants from Protoplasts of Asparagus officinalis L., pp. 1-13. In: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 11."Plant protoplast and Genetic Engineering V". Y.P.S. Bajaj (ed). Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany.---Invited book chapter.
[43]  Yinghui Dan. 1994. Development of Fusarium Resistance of Asparagus via Tissue Culture And Gene Transformation. Ph.D. thesis. Michigan State University, U.S.A..
[44]  Yinghui Dan and C.T. Stephens. 1991. Studies of Protoplast Culture Types and Plant Regeneration from Callus-derived Protoplasts of Asparagus officinalis L. cv. Lucullus 234. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 27: 321-331
[45]  Yinghui Dan and C.T. Stephens. 1991. Studies of Protoplast Culture Types and Plant Regeneration from Callus-derived Protoplasts of Asparagus officinalis L. cv. Lucullus 234. In Vitro 27:117A (Abstract)
[46]  Yinghui Dan. 1986. The Test of Obtainment of Haploid of Antirrhinum majus L. by the Techniques: Irradiated Pollen and Culture in Vitro, M.S. thesis. Paris XI University, France.