Welcome to our four new students
Kang Lab welcomes Bin Tong, Fu-Ji Deng, Min-Yu Xing and Han Gong to our 2026 incoming cohort.
The retina,
across time
and species.
We study how retinal cells acquire their identities, change with age, and diversify across species, connecting molecular mechanisms with single-cell and spatial genomics.
Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Lab news
All news ↗DDX19B study published in Communications Biology
A 2026 Communications Biology paper examines DDX19B and post-meiotic 3′-UTR profile shifts in mice.
Kang Lab at CCOS2026 in Tianjin
Lu-Yue Ding and Yuan-Rong Guo contributed posters, and Zi-Wu Wang contributed a written communication at the 30th Congress of Chinese Ophthalmological Society.
Research directions
Retinal development, aging & evolution
How is retinal cell diversity generated, maintained over time, and reshaped across species?
DevelopmentAgingEvolution
From questions to discoveries
2026
Systematic discovery of retina-enriched Rik genes identifies 1190005I06Rik as a novel modulator of visual signalling
Journal of Translational Medicine DOI ↗
2022
2017
Explore, query, reuse.
Expression atlas
Public access, no sign-inQuery genes across seven bulk, single-cell and spatial datasets. Compare expression, explore orthologs and download figures or data.
Open the atlas ↗Tools for reproducible research
Explore research software and workflows for regulatory genomics, spatial analysis and scientific literature.
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