Yizhi Jane Tao

Yizhi Jane Tao
Occupation(s)	Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Rice University, mapped atomic structure of the influenza A virus nucleoprotein trimer, named among the top ten most influential Chinese of 2006 by a consortium of China’s leading media outlets

Yizhi Jane Tao is a Chinese biochemist, structural biologist, and professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Professor Tao led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure of the influenza A virus nucleoprotein to an atomic level, a feat which circulated widely in the popular press.<ref>

See also

• Timeline of women in science

References

• The mechanism by which influenza A virus nucleoprotein forms oligomers and binds RNA

External links

• Yizhi Jane Tao Faculty Detail
• The structure of a birnavirus polymerase reveals a distinct active site topology in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America magazine.
• Structure of the hepatitis E virus-like particle suggests mechanisms for virus assembly and receptor binding in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America magazine.