Our Team

• Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship (2022)
• NIH T32 Infectious Disease and Basic Microbiology Mechanisms Training Grant (2022)
• Fiat Chrysler Student Achievement Award (2018)
• NIH T32 Medical Scientist Training Program (2017)
• Engineering Dean’s Honor List, University of Michigan (2017)
• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society (2016)
• American Society of Hematology Abstract Achievement Award (2015)
• Cell and Developmental Biology Retreat Best Oral Presentation, University of Michigan (2015)
• William Clay Ford, Jr. Scholarship (2014)
• Biomedical and Life Science Research Fellowship, University of Michigan (2014)
• Regents Merit Scholarship, University of Michigan (2013)
• Jean Fairfax Scholarship, University of Michigan (2013)
• Eagle Scout (2012)

• Yang, K.B., et al., Collateral sensitivity and genetic vulnerability of antibiotic resistance. Trends in Microbiology (2025).
• Yang, K.B., et al., Persistence of backtracking by human RNA polymerase II. Molecular Cell (2024).
• Yang, K.B., et al., High-resolution landscape of an antibiotic binding site. Nature (2023).
• Yang, K.B., and Nudler, E., Methods, procedures and kits for providing maximum depth enrichment sequencing for identification for enrichment of rare genomic variants. United States Patent US20210332429A1 (2021).
• Ney, G.M.*, Yang, K.B.*, Ng, V.*, et al., Oncogenic N-Ras Mitigates Oxidative Stress–Induced Apoptosis of Hematopoietic Stem Cells. Cancer Research (2021).
• Liu, L., Zhao, M., Jin, X., Ney, G., Yang, K.B., et al., Adaptive endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling via IRE1α–XBP1 preserves self-renewal of haematopoietic and pre-leukaemic stem cells. Nature Cell Biology (2019).
• Jin, X., Qin, T., Zhao, M., Bailey, N., Liu, L., Yang, K., et al., Oncogenic N-Ras and Tet2 haploinsufficiency collaborate to dysregulate hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Blood Advances (2018).

Posters

• Yang, K.B., et al., High resolution landscape of an antibiotic binding site. Poster, HHMI Science Meeting, Ashburn, VA (2023).
• Yang, K.B., et al., Functional characterization of the rifampicin binding site. Poster, Keystone Symposia – Novel Approaches Against Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance, Banff, AB (2022).
• Yang, K.B., et al., Functional characterization of the rifampicin binding site. Talk, Boston Bacterial Meeting, Boston, MA (2022).
• Yang, K. B.*, Ng, V.*, et al., Oncogenic Nras Grants Apoptosis Resistance to Hematopoietic Stem Cells. Poster, American Society of Hematology conference, Orlando, FL (2015).