معرفی
Beiyan Nan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Texas A&M University. He joined the department in 2015 and leads the Nan Lab, focusing on bacterial morphogenesis and cell wall synthesis. His research uses Myxococcus xanthus as a model organism to study how cells establish shapes through peptidoglycan machinery. He has developed super-resolution microscopy techniques like sptPALM/STORM to track single-particle dynamics in live cells.
Education: B.S. in Microbiology from Inner Mongolia University (2002), Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Peking University (2007), followed by postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Research focuses on understanding how bacterial cells transition from spherical spores to rod-shaped forms. Key discoveries include the role of cytoskeleton-motor systems in regulating cell wall synthesis patterns and the connection between focal adhesion complexes and peptidoglycan dynamics. His work has implications for antibiotic development and infection control.
Professional roles include editorships at Research in Microbiology and Frontiers in Microbiology, and membership in the American Society of Microbiology.
Labs/Teams: The Nan Lab specializes in integrating microscopy, genetics, and computational modeling to study bacterial cell biology. Current projects explore mechanisms of cell wall integrity and gliding motility.
