Michael Lin Yang
Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, admitted Winter 2017
All Publications
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A Stretchable Tactile Sleeve for Reaching Into Cluttered Spaces
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
2021; 6 (3): 5308-5315
View details for DOI 10.1109/LRA.2021.3070304
View details for Web of Science ID 000647325700005
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Exploratory Hand: Leveraging Safe Contact to Facilitate Manipulation in Cluttered Spaces
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
2021; 6 (3): 5159-5166
View details for DOI 10.1109/LRA.2021.3068941
View details for Web of Science ID 000645056800009
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A 3D Printed Ex Vivo Left Heart Simulator Quantifies and Validates Posterior Ventricular Anchoring Neochordoplasty
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2018
View details for Web of Science ID 000528619407215
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HoloNeedle: Augmented Reality Guidance System for Needle Placement Investigating the Advantages of Three-Dimensional Needle Shape Reconstruction
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
2018; 3 (4): 4156–62
View details for DOI 10.1109/LRA.2018.2863381
View details for Web of Science ID 000443142200007
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A Single-Chain Photoswitchable CRISPR-Cas9 Architecture for Light-Inducible Gene Editing and Transcription
A Single-Chain Photoswitchable CRISPR-Cas9 Architecture for Light-Inducible Gene Editing and Transcription
2017: 443–48
Abstract
Optical control of CRISPR-Cas9-derived proteins would be useful for restricting gene editing or transcriptional regulation to desired times and places. Optical control of Cas9 functions has been achieved with photouncageable unnatural amino acids or by using light-induced protein interactions to reconstitute Cas9-mediated functions from two polypeptides. However, these methods have only been applied to one Cas9 species and have not been used for optical control of different perturbations at two genes. Here, we use photodissociable dimeric fluorescent protein domains to engineer single-chain photoswitchable Cas9 (ps-Cas9) proteins in which the DNA-binding cleft is occluded at baseline and opened upon illumination. This design successfully controlled different species and functional variants of Cas9, mediated transcriptional activation more robustly than previous optogenetic methods, and enabled light-induced transcription of one gene and editing of another in the same cells. Thus, a single-chain photoswitchable architecture provides a general method to control a variety of Cas9-mediated functions.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acschembio.7b00603
View details for PubMedCentralID PMC5820652
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A Mixed-Reality System for Breast Surgical Planning
IEEE. 2017: 269–74
View details for DOI 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct.2017.92
View details for Web of Science ID 000425896400068
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Display of Needle Tip Contact Forces for Steering Guidance
IEEE. 2016: 332–37
View details for Web of Science ID 000383011400052