Yi Yin

Dr. Yi Yin obtained a B.S. degree in Biotechnology from Beijing Normal University (BNU) in 2009. She then trained with Dr. Tom Petes at Duke University (University Program in Genetics and Genomics, 2009-2015) for her Ph.D. and studied mechanisms of mitotic recombination in yeast. Concurrently she also earned an M.S. degree in Statistical Science at Duke. She completed her postdoctoral training in Dr. Sunney Xie’s lab at Harvard University (Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 2015-2016) and in Jay Shendure’s lab at the University of Washington (Genome Sciences, 2016-2020) on developing single-cell sequencing technologies. Dr. Yin started her lab in the Department of Human Genetics at UCLA in March, 2020.

Awards and Honors

• Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, 2020-2022.
• Damon Runyon Fellowship Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, 2016-2019.

Publications

• Guo L, Boocock J, Hilt EE, Chandrasekaran S, Zhang Y, Munugala C, Sathe L, Alexander N, Arboleda VA, Flint J, Eskin E, Luo C, Yang S, Garner OB, Yin Y, Bloom JS, Kruglyak L. Genomic epidemiology of the Los Angeles COVID-19 outbreak and the early history of the B.1.43 strain in the USA.. BMC genomics, 2022.
• Hilt EE, Boocock J, Trejo M, Le CQ, Guo L, Zhang Y, Sathe L, Arboleda VA, Yin Y, Bloom JS, Wang PC, Elmore JG, Kruglyak L, Shrestha L, Bakhash SAM, Lin M, Xie H, Huang ML, Roychoudhury P, Greninger A, Chandrasekaran S, Yang S, Garner OB. Retrospective Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Symptomatic Patients Prior to Widespread Diagnostic Testing in Southern California.. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2022.
• Chovanec P, Yin Y. A mapping platform for mitotic crossover by single-cell multi-omics.. Methods in enzymology, 2021.
• Bloom JS, Sathe L, Munugala C, Jones EM, Gasperini M, Lubock NB, Yarza F, Thompson EM, Kovary KM, Park J, Marquette D, Kay S, Lucas M, Love T, Sina Booeshaghi A, Brandenberg OF, Guo L, Boocock J, Hochman M, Simpkins SW, Lin I, LaPierre N, Hong D, Zhang Y, Oland G, Choe BJ, Chandrasekaran S, Hilt EE, Butte MJ, Damoiseaux R, Kravit C, Cooper AR, Yin Y, Pachter L, Garner OB, Flint J, Eskin E, Luo C, Kosuri S, Kruglyak L, Arboleda VA. Massively scaled-up testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA via next-generation sequencing of pooled and barcoded nasal and saliva samples.. Nature biomedical engineering, 2021.
• Yin Y, Jiang Y, Lam KG, Berletch JB, Disteche CM, Noble WS, Steemers FJ, Camerini-Otero RD, Adey AC, Shendure J. High-Throughput Single-Cell Sequencing with Linear Amplification.. Molecular cell, 2019.
• Chen W, McKenna A, Schreiber J, Haeussler M, Yin Y, Agarwal V, Noble WS, Shendure J. Massively parallel profiling and predictive modeling of the outcomes of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated double-strand break repair.. Nucleic acids research, 2019.
• Klein HL, Bacinskaja G, Che J, Cheblal A, Elango R, Epshtein A, Fitzgerald DM, G?mez-Gonz?lez B, Khan SR, Kumar S, Leland BA, Marie L, Mei Q, Min?-Hattab J, Piotrowska A, Polleys EJ, Putnam CD, Radchenko EA, Saada AA, Sakofsky CJ, Shim EY, Stracy M, Xia J, Yan Z, Yin Y, Aguilera A, Argueso JL, Freudenreich CH, Gasser SM, Gordenin DA, Haber JE, Ira G, Jinks-Robertson S, King MC, Kolodner RD, Kuzminov A, Lambert SA, Lee SE, Miller KM, Mirkin SM, Petes TD, Rosenberg SM, Rothstein R, Symington LS, Zawadzki P, Kim N, Lisby M, Malkova A. Guidelines for DNA recombination and repair studies: Cellular assays of DNA repair pathways.. Microbial cell (Graz, Austria), 2019.
• Guo X, Chavez A, Tung A, Chan Y, Kaas C, Yin Y, Cecchi R, Garnier SL, Kelsic ED, Schubert M, DiCarlo JE, Collins JJ, Church GM. High-throughput creation and functional profiling of DNA sequence variant libraries using CRISPR-Cas9 in yeast.. Nature biotechnology, 2018.
• Yin Y, Dominska M, Yim E, Petes TD. High-resolution mapping of heteroduplex DNA formed during UV-induced and spontaneous mitotic recombination events in yeast.. eLife, 2017.
• Deng SK, Yin Y, Petes TD, Symington LS. Mre11-Sae2 and RPA Collaborate to Prevent Palindromic Gene Amplification.. Molecular cell, 2015.
• Yin Y, Petes TD. Recombination between homologous chromosomes induced by unrepaired UV-generated DNA damage requires Mus81p and is suppressed by Mms2p.. PLoS genetics, 2015.
• Yin Y, Petes TD. The role of Exo1p exonuclease in DNA end resection to generate gene conversion tracts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.. Genetics, 2014.
• Yin Y, Petes TD. Genome-wide high-resolution mapping of UV-induced mitotic recombination events in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.. PLoS genetics, 2013.
• St Charles J, Hazkani-Covo E, Yin Y, Andersen SL, Dietrich FS, Greenwell PW, Malc E, Mieczkowski P, Petes TD. High-resolution genome-wide analysis of irradiated (UV and ?-rays) diploid yeast cells reveals a high frequency of genomic loss of heterozygosity (LOH) events.. Genetics, 2012.