Professor
Xiamen University, China (People's Republic)
Xiaomei Yan (PhD), distinguished professor of Xiamen University, China. She received BEng degree in Scientific Instrumentation (1990) and PhD in Analytical Chemistry (1996) from Xiamen University, China. Following one year of post-doctoral research at the University of Florida, she moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico, USA) in 1997 as a post-doc. Later she was promoted to Technical Staff Member and served as a principal investigator of the National Flow Cytometry Resource. In 2005, she returned to Xiamen University as a professor of Chemistry. She is the winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (NSFC 2012) and was selected in the National Ten Thousand Talent Program (2016). She is interested in the development of advanced instrumentation and methodologies for biochemical and biomedical analysis. In particular, employing techniques for single-molecule fluorescence detection in a sheathed flow, her research lab has developed nano-flow cytometry (nFCM) that achieved real-time light scattering detection of single extracellular vesicles, viruses, silica beads, and gold nanoparticles as small as 40 nm, 27 nm, 24 nm, and 7 nm in diameter, respectively. With a resolution comparable to that of transmission electron microscopy and the ease and speed of flow cytometry, nFCM offers great opportunities to measure the count, size, composition and phenotype of nanoscale biological particles with unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy.