PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Yushun Wan
Gender: Male
Title: Prof.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: yswan@cqmu.edu.cn
Address: 1 Yixueyuan Road, Chongqing 726 Library Building.
Phone: +86-19849367141
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
Ph.D. Microbiology 2012 Sep – 2017 Jun
State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
B.S. Biology 2007 Sep – 2011 Jun
College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2021 Sep – Now Professor
College of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, China
2020 Jun – 2021 Jul Researcher 6
College of Veterinary, University of Minnesota-Twin City, MN, USA
2017 Arg – 2020 Jun Postdoctoral Fellow
College of Veterinary, University of Minnesota-Twin City, MN, USA
2016 Mar – 2016 May Visiting Scholar
University Hospital, Essen University, Germany
RESEARCH INTERESTS
We study the structural and functional basis of human and animal diseases including viral infection and viral-host interactions in host response.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Wan Y#, Shang J#, Graham R, Baric RS, Li F*. Receptor Recognition by the Novel Coronavirus from Wuhan: an Analysis Based on Decade-Long Structural Studies of SARS Coronavirus. J Virol. 2020 Mar 17;94(7):e00127-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00127-20.
2. Shang J#, Wan Y#, Luo C#, Ye G, Geng Q, Auerbach A, Li F*. Cell entry mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 May 26;117(21):11727-11734.
3. Shang J#, Ye G#, Shi K#, Wan Y#, Luo C, Aihara H, Geng Q, Auerbach A, Li F*. Structural basis of receptor recognition by SARS-CoV-2. Nature. 2020 May;581(7807):221-224. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2179-y.
4. Shang J#, Wan Y#, Liu C, Yount B, Gully K, Yang Y, Auerbach A, Peng G, Baric R, Li F*. Structure of mouse coronavirus spike protein complexed with receptor reveals mechanism for viral entry. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Mar 9;16(3):e1008392. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008392.
5. Wan Y, Shang J, Sun S, Tai W, Chen J, Geng Q, He L, Chen Y, Wu J, Shi Z, Zhou Y, Du L, Li F*. Molecular Mechanism for Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of Coronavirus Entry. J Virol. 2020 Feb 14;94(5):e02015-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02015-19.
6. Wan Y, Cao W, Han T, Ren S, Feng J, Chen T, Wang J, Broering R, Lu M, Zhu Y*. Inducible Rubicon facilitates viral replication by antagonizing interferon production. Cell Mol Immunol. 2017 Jul;14(7):607-620. doi: 10.1038/cmi.2017.1.
