Bolan Yu
Key Laboratory, China
Biography
Dr. Bolan Yu is the associate professor and vice director of the Key Laboratory for Major Obstetric Diseases of Guangdong Province in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University. She obtained B.S. degree in Biology from University of Science and Technology of China in 2000, M.S. degree in genetics from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, and Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010. Her research focuses on interactions of environment and genetics on the male reproductive health. Her group first reported that genetic variation in NRF2 gene and related antioxidant signaling pathway was associated with human defective spermatogenesis, and found that smoking as a common risk factor in Chinese males could cause epigenetic instability in sperm DNA.
Abstract
Abstract : Cigarette smoking is associated with epigenetic instability in human sperm