Shiyao Wang, BS

734-882-8768 | shiyaow@umich.edu
540 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 09/2018 - present
Degree expected in April 2020: Ann Arbor, MI
Master of Public Health in General Epidemiology
• Current GPA: 4.0/4.0
• Honors/Awards: NSF International Global Scholarship
Beijing Normal University 09/2014 - 07/2018
Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences Beijing, China
• GPA: 3.76/4.0
• Honors/ Awards:
First Class Scholarship for Freshmen (Top 3% among peer students);
Excellence Award for the National Undergraduate Training Program for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship

Experiences
Research in Immunology at Beijing Normal University 05/2017 - 05/2018
Senior thesis; research assistant Beijing, China
• Researched on macrophage inflammatory responses regulated by glucose metabolic factors
• Published review paper on Cancer Letters
Research in Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University 07/2017 - 08/2017
Summer research Baltimore, MD
• Researched on point mutagenesis of the staphylococcal nuclease (SNase) on Isoleucine 92
• Applied software modeling with Pymol in combination with wet lab expertise in the study of
protein structure, function and dynamics
Research in Developmental Biology at Beijing Normal University 10/2015 - 05/2016
Group leader Beijing, China
• Researched on topology of transmembrane protein STIM1 and ORAI1 with intramolecular
fluorescence complementation (BiFC) technology;
• Presented on the annual academic meeting of school on behalf of our three-member group
• Independently submitted the abstract as well as the poster by Photoshop that was later awarded
the best on the meeting
• Funded by the National Undergraduate Training Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Skills
• Languages: English (Full professional proficiency); Chinese mandarin (Native)
• Coursework based training: Study design; sampling and power; statistical inference;
regression analysis; infectious disease transmission modeling
• Software: R; SAS; MATLAB; C; Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint); Adobe
(Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, Premier Pro and After Effects)
• Wet Laboratory: Nucleic acid manipulation; sequencing; protein purification; western
blotting; flow cytometry; confocal laser scanning microscope

Publication
S. Wang, R. Liu, Q. Yu, L. Dong, Y. Bi, G. Liu, Metabolic reprogramming of macrophages during
infections and cancer, Cancer Letters. 452 (2019) 14-22.