1. Haibing Yang
Purdue University, Department of Biological Sciences
201 S. University St., West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-496-1024/ Fax: 765-496-1496; yanghaibing@purdue.edu
Education
Degree Institution Date
Ph.D. Plant Science (Molecular) University of Connecticut Dec.17, 2006
M. S. Biochemistry China Agriculture University July 1, 2001
B. S. Biology Nanchang University July 6, 1998
Positions Held
2010-2016 Research Plant Biologist, C3Bio, Departments of Biological Sciences, Dept. of
Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Purdue University
2006- 2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department Horticulture and Landscape
Architecture, Purdue University
2002-2006 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Plant Science, University of
Connecticut
2001-2002 Research Scientist, Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1998-2001 Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, China Agriculture University
Awards, Grants, Fellowship and Scholarships
Purdue Agriculture TEAM Award
US Department of Energy grant BES/CSGB/EB DE-FG02-06ER15804 (co-author & senior scientist)
Travel Grant from 4th
Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop. Asilomar, CA. 2012
Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut 2006
Clifford R. Burr Memorial Scholarship, University of Connecticut 2002-2005
Professional Service
Academic Editor, PLoS One
Reviewer, The Plant Cell, Plant, Cell & Environment, Plant Journal, Journal of Experimental Botany, New
Phytologist, Plant and Cell Physiology, Planta, Plos One, HortScience, Plant Cell Report, Plant Physiology
Teaching Experience
Lecturer, Tissue culture section (5 lectures) in Hort 201- Plant Propagation, Purdue University 2014-
Organizer, Plant Biology Student/Postdoc Seminar Series at Purdue University 2010-2012
Guest Lecturer, Hort 590 - Plant Growth and Regulation at Purdue University 2010-2011
Guest Lecturer, Hort590 - Membrane Biology at Purdue University 2009
Guest Lecturer, Hort 590 - Plant Transport Regulation at Purdue University 2006-2008
Teaching Assistant, Experiments of Biochemistry B (02110960) China Agriculture University 1999-2001
Mentoring
Undergraduate student mentoring
Summer internship students: 14 students, 2007-2015.
Nanbing Jade Li, Lauren M. Evans, Erika Valle, Dahlia Shvets, Jia Li, Bin Li, James Nolan, Michaela
Covington, Eric O’Brien, Dahlia Shvets, James Nolan, Michaela Covington, Michael Busche,
Varun K. Subramanyam

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Publications (Citation: 1918, h-index: 16)
1. Yang H, Wei H, Ma G, Antunes M, Cox J, Zhang X, Liu X, Himmel ME, Tucker MP, McCann MC,
Murphy AS, Peer WA. (2016) Cell wall targeted in planta delivery of iron enhances both biomass
conversion and nutrition in Arabidopsis and rice. Plant Biotechnology J. 14(10): 1998-2009
2. Dong J, Pineros MA, Li X, Yang H, Liu Y, Murphy AS, Kochian LV, Liu D. (2016) An
Arabidopsis ABC transporter mediates phosphate deficiency-induced remodeling of root
architecture by modulating iron homeostasis in roots. Molecular Plant, in press (accepted)
3. Lin CY, Jakes JE, Donohoe BS, Ciesielski PN, Yang H, Gleber SC, Vogt S, Ding SY, Peer WA,
Murphy AS, McCann MC, Himmel ME, Tucker MP, Wei H. (2016) Directed plant cell-wall
accumulation of iron: embedding co-catalyst for efficient biomass conversion. Biotechnol
Biofuels. 21;9:225
4. Kriegel A, Andrés Z, Medzihradszky A, Krüger F, Scholl S, Delang S, Patir-Nebioglu MG, Gute G,
Yang H, Murphy A, Peer W, Pfeiffer A, Krebs M, Lohmann J, and Schumacher K. (2015) Job-sharing
in the endomembrane system: Vacuolar acidification requires the combined activity of V-ATPase
and V-PPase. Plant Cell. 27: 3383-3396.
5. Wei H*, Yang H*, Ciesielski PN, Donohoe BS, McCann MC, Murphy AS, Peer WA, Ding S-Y, Himmel
ME, Tucher MP. (2014) Transgenic ferritin overproduction largely enhances thermochemical
pretreatments in Arabidopsis. Biomass and Bioenergy. 72: 55-56 (*equal contribution)
6. Yang H, Zhang X, Gaxiola RA, Xu G, Peer WA, Murphy AS. (2014) Overexpression of the Arabidopsis
proton-pyrophosphatase AVP1 enhances transplant survival, root mass, and fruit development
under limiting phosphorus conditions. J. of Experimental Botany. 65: 3045-3053.
7. Christie JM*, Yang H*, Richter G*, Sullivan S*, Thomson CE, Lin J, Titapiwatanakun B, Ennis M,
Kaiserli E, Lee OR, Adamec J, Peer WA, Murphy AS. (2011) phot1 inhibition of ABCB19 primes
lateral auxin fluxes in the shoot apex required for phototropism. PloS Biology. 9: e1001076.
(*equal contribution)
8. Yang H, Richter GL, Wang X, Młodzińska E, Carraro N, Lin JE, Chao D, Peer WA, Murphy AS. (2013)
Sterols and sphingolipids differentially function in trafficking of the Arabidopsis ABCB19 auxin
transporter. Plant J. 74(1):37-47.
9. Yang H, Murphy AS. (2009) Functional expression and characterization of Arabidopsis ABCB, AUX1
and PIN auxin transporters in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Plant J. 59: 179-91.
10. Yang H, Knapp J, Koirala P, Rajagopal D, Peer WA, Silbart LK, Murphy A, Gaxiola RA. (2007)
Enhanced phosphorus nutrition in monocots and dicots over-expressing a phosphorus-responsive
type I H+
-pyrophosphatase. Plant Biotechnol J. 5: 735-45.
11. Li J*, Yang H*, Peer WA, Richter G, Blakeslee JJ, Bandyopadhyay A, Titapiwantakun B, Undurraga
S, Khodakovskaya M, Krizek B, Murphy A, Gilroy S, Gaxiola RA ( 2005) Arabidopsis H+
-PPase AVP1
regulates auxin mediated organ development. Science 310: 121-125. (*equal contribution)

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12. Yang H, Murphy AS. (2013) Membrane preparation, sucrose density gradients and two-phase
Separation Fractionation from Five-day-old Arabidopsis seedlings. Bio-Protocol. 3: e1014.
13. Kubeš M*, Yang H*, Richter GL*, Cheng Y, Wang X, Młodzińska E, Carraro N, Titapiwatanakun B,
Petrášek J, Zažímalová E, Hoyerová K, Peer WA, Murphy AS. (2012) The Arabidopsis concentration-
dependent influx/efflux transporter ABCB4 regulate cellular auxin levels in the root epidermis.
Plant J. 69: 640-54. (*equal contribution)
14. Tsuda E*, Nishimura T*, Yang H*, Yukiko Uehara, Tatsuya Sakai, Masahiko Furutani, Koshiba
Tomokazu, Hiroshi Nozaki, Angus Murphy, Ken-ichiro Hayashi. (2011) Alkoxy-auxins are selective
inhibitors of auxin transport mediated by PIN, ABCB, and AUX1 transporters. J Biol. Chem.
286:2354-64. (*equal contribution)
15. Sun L-J, Feng Q-M, Yan Y-F, Pan Z-Q, Li X-H, Song F-M, Yang H, Xu J-J, Bao N, Gu H-Y. (2014) Paper-
based electroanalytical devices for in situ determination of salicylic acid in living tomato leaves.
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 60C: 154-160.
16. Péret B, Swarup K, Ferguson A, Seth M, Yang Y, Dhondt S, James N, Casimiro I, Perry P, Syed A,
Yang H, Reemmer J, Venison E, Howells C, Perez-Amador MA, Yun J, Alonso J, Beemster GT,
Laplaze L, Murphy A, Bennett MJ, Nielsen E, Swarup R. (2012) AUX/LAX genes encode a family of
auxin influx transporters that perform distinct functions during Arabidopsis development. Plant
Cell. 24: 2874-85.
17. Hildreth SB, Gehman E, Yang H, Lu R-H, Sandoe JL, Yu S, Okumoto S, Murphy AS, Jelesko JG. (2011)
Tobacco nicotine uptake permease (NUP1) affects alkaloid metabolism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA.
108:18179-84.
18. Undurragaa SF, Santosg MP, Paez-Valenciag J, Yang H, Hepler PK, Facanhaf AR, Hirschid KD,
Gaxiola RA. (2012) Arabidopsis sodium dependent and independent phenotypes triggered by H+
-
PPase up-regulation are SOS1 dependent. Plant Science. 183: 96–105.
19. Peer WA, Blakeslee JJ, Yang H, Murphy AS. (2011) Seven things we think we know about auxin
transport. Mol. Plant. 4: 487-504.
20. Bailly A, Yang H, Martinoia E, Geisler M, Murphy AS. (2011) Plant lessons: exploring ABCB
functionality through structural modeling. Front. Plant Sci. 2: 108.
21. Růžička K, Strader LC, Bailly A, Yang H, Blakeslee J, Łangowski L, Nejedlá E, Fujita H, Ito H, Syōno
K, Hejátko J, Gray WM, Martinoia E, Geisler M, Bartel B, Murphy AS, Friml J. (2010) Arabidopsis
PIS1 encodes the ABCG37 transporter of auxinic compounds including the auxin precursor indole-
3-butyric acid. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA. 107:10749-53.
22. Zažímalová E, Murphy AS, Yang H, Hoyerová K, Hošek P. (2010) Auxin transporters: Why so many.
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 2: a001552.
23. Titapiwatanakun B, Blakeslee JJ, Bandyopadhyay A, Yang H, Mravec J, Sauer M, Cheng Y, Adamec
J, Nagashima A, Geisler M, Sakai T, Friml J, Peer WA, Murphy AS. (2009) ABCB19/PGP19 stabilises
PIN1 in membrane microdomains in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 57: 27-44.

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24. Park S, Li J, Pittman JK, Berkowitz GA, Yang H, Undurraga S, Morris J, Hirschi KD, Gaxiola RA. (2005)
Up-regulation of a vacuolar H+
-PPase as a strategy to engineer drought-resistant crop plants. Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci USA 102: 18830-18835.
Abstracts
1. Yang H, Wei H, Antunes MS, Cox J, Himmel ME, Tucker MP, Carpita NC, McCann MC, Murphy AS,
Peer WA. (2015) Cell wall targeted delivery of iron enhances iron content, biomass conversion,
root growth and yield in rice. Plant Cell Walls Gordon Research Seminar 2015, Bentley
University, Waltham, MA
2. Yang H, Wei H, Ma G, Antunes M, Cox J, Zhang X, Liu X, Himmel ME, Tucker MP, McCann MC,
Murphy AS, Peer WA. (2014) In planta iron delivery produces a dual system for enhancement of
biomass conversion and iron nutrition in rice. 4th
Pan-American Congress on Plants and Bioenergy.
Guelph, Canada.
3. Yang H, Cox J, Antunes M, McCann MC, Murphy AS, Peer WA. (2011) Engineering peptide
transporters and metal binding peptides to delivery iron for cell wall digestion. 6th
Frontiers in
Bioenergy. United States-Brazil Symposium on Sustainable Bioenergy.
4. Yang H, Richter GL, Wang X, Młodzińska E, Carraro N, Lin JE, Chao D, Peer WA, Murphy AS. (2011)
Dependence of Arabidopsis ABCB19 localization and function in discrete plasma membrane
domains enriched in structural sterols and sphingolipids. PUMAMS 4th
Annual Membrane
Symposium.
5. Yang H, Wang X, Titapiwatanakun B, Peer WA, Murphy AS. FKBP-mediated maturation and sterol
packing of the Arabidopsis ABCB19 auxin transporter are distinct processes. International
Workshop for Plant Membrane Biology, Adelaide, Australia.
6. Yang H, Wang X, Titapiwatanakun B, Peer WA, Murphy AS. FKBP-mediated maturation and sterol
packing of the Arabidopsis ABCB19 auxin transporter are distinct processes. American Society of
Plant Biologists Plant Biology 2010 Conference, Montreal, Canada.
7. Yang H, Wang X, Titapiwatanakun B, Peer WA, Murphy AS. FKBP-mediated maturation and sterol
packing of the Arabidopsis ABCB19 auxin transporter are distinct processes. American Society of
Plant Biologists 2010 Midwestern Section annual meeting. Purdue University, IN.
8. Yang H, Knapp JE, Murphy A, Gaxiola RA. The type I H+
-PPase AVP1 functions at the intersection
of auxin signaling and Pi sensing to mediate root architecture plasticity. American Society of Plant
Biologists Plant Biology 2006 Conference. Boston, MA.
9. Yang H, Blakeslee JJ, Bandhyopadhyay A, Peer WA, Krizek B, Underraga R, Murphy AS, Gaxiola RA.
(2006)The type I H+
-PPase AVP1 functions at the crossroads between low PI sensing, enhanced
auxin sensitivity and root architecture. Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop. South
Padre, Texas, USA.
10. Yang H, Knapp JE, Gaxiola RA. Overexpression of the vacuolar H+
-pyrophosphatase AVP1

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enhances Phosphorus uptake in Arabidopsis thaliana. American Society of Plant Biologists Plant
Biology 2005 Conference. Seattle, WA
11. Yang H, Gaxiola RA, Up-regulation of the vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase AVP1 improves grow in
limiting K+
and PO4
3-
media. Poster present in American Society of Plant Biologists Plant Biology
2003 Conference. Honolulu, HI
Invited Talks
“Determining cell wall factors that control cell-cell adhesion for improvement of biomass comminution
in feedstock crops” Plant Cell Walls Gordon Research Seminar 2015, Bentley University, Waltham, MA
“Sphingolipids and sterols regulate trafficking and stability of the Arabidopsis ABCB19 auxin transporter”
4th
Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop 2012. Asilomar, CA.
“FKBP-mediated maturation and sterol packing of the Arabidopsis ABCB19 auxin transporter are distinct
processes” American Society of Plant Biologists Plant Biology 2010 Conference. Montreal, QC, Canada,
2010
“The type I H+
-PPase AVP1 functions at the intersection of auxin signaling and Pi sensing to mediate root
architecture plasticity” American Society of Plant Biologists. Boston, MA.2006
“The type I H+
-PPase AVP1 functions at the crossroads between low PI sensing, enhanced auxin sensitivity
and root architecture plasticity” Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop. South Padre, Texas.
2006
“Overexpression of the vacuolar H+
-pyrophosphatase AVP1 enhances Phosphorus uptake in Arabidopsis
thaliana” American Society of Plant Biologists Plant Biology. Seattle, WA. 2005
“Synthetic Biology: Target iron to specific cell wall linkages to enhance directed catalytic deconstruction
of biomass” Purdue University, C3Bio Energy Center Annual meeting, IN 2013
“Engineering delivery of transition metal catalysts for preferred cell wall conversion” C3Bio Energy Center
Annual meeting, Purdue University, IN 2011
“The type I H+
-PPase AVP1 functions at the crossroads between auxin transport, low phosphate sensing
and root architecture plasticity” Thesis defense, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 2006.

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References:
Maureen McCann, Ph D
Professor, Director of the Energy Center, Discovery Park
Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
201 S. University St., West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-496-1779, E-mail: mmccann@purdue.edu
Nicholas C Carpita
Professor
Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
1-415 Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 7654944653, E-mail: carpita@purdue.edu
Angus S. Murphy, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Dept. Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland
2104 Plant Science Bldg., College Park MD 20742
Phone: 301-405-6244 (office), E-mail: asmurphy@umd.edu
Wendy Peer Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Environmental Science & Technology, University of Maryland
1109 H.J. Patterson, College Park, MD 20742-5825
Phone: 301-405-5491(office), Email: wapeer@umd.edu
Roberto Gaxiola, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
427 E Tyler Mall, LSE 619, Tempe, AZ 85281
Phone: (480) 965-3337, E-mail: Roberto.Gaxiola@asu.edu