Contact information

Yini Li Ph.D.

2019 Advanced Innovation Fellow, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology
2017 Chinese Government Scholarship for Master’s Degree (ph.D.), Tsinghua University
2014 “Future Scholar Fellowship” of Tsinghua University at 2014 Ph.D.

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2010-2014School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China B.S.

2014-2019School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University Ph.D.

2019-PresentSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University Postdoc

Main Research Fields

Structural and mechanistic studies of the key components of the conserved apoptotic pathways.

Selected Publications

1.Li, Yini. *, Zhou, Mengying. *, Hu, Qi. *, Bai, Xiaochen., Huang, Weiyun., Scheres, Sjors Hendrik, and Shi, Yigong. (2017). Mechanistic insights into caspase-9 activation by the structure of the apoptosome holoenzyme.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America114, 1542-1547.( * co-first author)


2.Zhou, Mengying. *, Li, Yini. *, Hu, Qi. *, Bai, Xiaochen., Huang, Weiyun., Yan, Chuangye., Scheres, Sjors Hendrik, and Shi, Yigong. (2015). Atomic structure of the apoptosome: mechanism of cytochrome c-and dATP-mediated activation of Apaf-1.Genes & Development29, 2349-2361.( * co-first author)