Yunfang Zhang is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University and an Affiliated Investigator at the Sycamore Research Institute of Life Sciences,Shanghai. Her research focuses on non-coding RNA and RNA modification-mediated epigenetic regulation. She has published nearly 30 papers in top-tier journals including Science and Nature Cell Biology, with over 2,000 citations. Professor Zhang also serves as an Associate Editor for Noncoding RNA Research and Genes & Diseases.
Yunfang Zhang
Affiliated Investigator
Investigating non-coding RNA
EYSF
Ray Wu Prize
Biography
Representative Publications
2025
Optimized identification and characterization of small RNAs with PANDORA-seq
Junchao Shi, Yunfang Zhang, Yun Li, Liwen Zhang, Xudong Zhang, Menghong Yan, Qi Chen, Ying Zhang
Nature Protocols
DOI
2021
PANDORA-seq expands the repertoire of regulatory small RNAs by overcoming RNA modifications
Junchao Shi, Yunfang Zhang, Dongmei Tan, Xudong Zhang, Menghong Yan, Ying Zhang, Reuben Franklin, Marta Shahbazi, Kirsty Mackinlay, Shichao Liu, Bernhard Kuhle, Emma R. James, Liwen Zhang, Yongcun Qu, Qiwei Zhai, Wenxin Zhao, Linlin Zhao, Changcheng Zhou, Weifeng Gu, Jernej Murn, Jingtao Guo, Douglas T. Carrell, Yinsheng Wang, Xuemei Chen, Bradley R. Cairns, Xiang-lei Yang, Paul Schimmel, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Sihem Cheloufi, Ying Zhang, Tong Zhou, Qi Chen
Nature Cell Biology
DOI
2018
Dnmt2 mediates intergenerational transmission of paternally acquired metabolic disorders through sperm small non-coding RNAs
Yunfang Zhang, Xudong Zhang, Junchao Shi, Francesca Tuorto, Xin Li, Yusheng Liu, Reinhard Liebers, Liwen Zhang, Yongcun Qu, Jingjing Qian, Maya Pahima, Ying Liu, Menghong Yan, Zhonghong Cao, Xiaohua Lei, Yujing Cao, Hongying Peng, Shichao Liu, Yue Wang, Huili Zheng, Rebekah Woolsey, David Quilici, Qiwei Zhai, Lei Li, Tong Zhou, Wei Yan, Frank Lyko, Ying Zhang, Qi Zhou, Enkui Duan, Qi Chen
Nature Cell Biology
DOI
2016
Sperm tsRNAs contribute to intergenerational inheritance of an acquired metabolic disorder
Qi Chen, Menghong Yan, Zhonghong Cao, Xin Li, Yunfang Zhang, Junchao Shi, Gui-hai Feng, Hongying Peng, Xudong Zhang, Ying Zhang, Jingjing Qian, Enkui Duan, Qiwei Zhai, Qi Zhou
Science
DOI