Qing joined the University of Texas at Arlington as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology in January 2024.
From 2018 to 2023, Qing worked in Dr. Joshua J. Woodward’s lab as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington. Following that, she held the position of Acting Instructor from 2023 to 2024 in the same department.
Qing earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Life Science and Technology at Huazhong Agricultural University, where she studied under the supervision of Dr. Jin He from 2011 to 2017.
Selected publications:
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Qing Tang, Mimi R. Precit, Maureen K. Thomason, Fariha Ahmed-Qadri, Adelle P. McFarland, Daniel J. Wolter, Lucas R. Hoffman, Joshua J. Woodward. Thymidine starvation promotes c-di-AMP dependent inflammation during infection. Cell Host Microbe. 2022 Jul 13;30(7):961-974.e6.
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Ling Yan’, Qing Tang’, Zeyuan Guan, Ping Yin, Tingting Zou, Jin He. Structural insights into operator recognition by BioQ in biotin synthesis pathway. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj. 2018 Sep;1862(9):1843-1851. (‘co-first author)
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Qing Tang, Kang Yin, Hongliang Qian, Youwen Zhao, Wen Wang, Shan-Ho Chou, Yang Fu, and Jin He. Cyclic di-GMP contributes to adaption and virulence of Bacillus thuringiensis through a riboswitch-regulated collagen adhesion protein. Sci Rep. 2016 Jul 6; 6:28807.
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Qing Tang, Yuncao Luo, Chao Zheng, Kang Yin, Maria Kanwal, Xinfeng Li, Jin He. Functional Analysis of a c-di-AMP-specific Phosphodiesterase MsPDE from Mycobacterium smegmatis. Int J Biol Sci. 2015 May 30;11(7):813-24. eCollection 2015.
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Qing Tang, Xinfeng Li, Tingting Zou, Huimin Zhang, Yingying Wang, Rongsui Gao, Zhencui Li, Jin He, Youjun Feng. Mycobacterium smegmatis BioQ defines a new regulatory network for biotin metabolism. Mol Microbiol. 2014 Oct 7. doi: 10.1111/mmi.12817.