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Faculty Detail Faculty Entry   
Name XINCHENG YAO  
Campus Address VH 390B Zip 0019
Phone 205-996-7459
E-mail xcy@uab.edu" id="FacultyDetail1EmailAddress"><a href="mailto:xcy@uab.edu">xcy@uab.edu</a>
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Department Affiliations(s)
Appointment Type Department Division Rank
Center  Center for Metabolic Bone Disease  Center for Metabolic Bone Disease
Center  General Clinical Research Center  Comprehensive Neuroscience Center

Biographical Sketch 
Xincheng Yao, PhD is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Yao was awarded his PhD in Optics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. In 2001, he joined the Biophysics Group of Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2001-2004) and then Technical Staff Member (2004-2006). In 2006, he joined CFD Research Corporation as a Senior Research Scientist. In 2007, he joined the faculty of University of Alabama at Birmingham. His current research interests include biomedical optics and instrumentation, functional imaging of the retina, experimental biophysics of neural systems and pancreatic islets. He has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in Neuroimage, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Journal of Biomedical Optics, etc. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER award and multiple grants from the NIH, DANA foundation, Eyesight Foundation of Alabama, and UASOM Interdisciplinary Institute for Imaging.

Society Memberships
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Research/Clinical Interest
Title
Biomedical optics instrumentation and functional imaging of excitable cells
Description
Dr. Yao’s laboratory is working on biomedical optics instrumentation, functional imaging of the retina, and experimental biophysics of neural/endocrinal cells.

Postdoc Positions Available
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Selected Publications 
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Q.X. Zhang, R.W. Lu, C. A. Curcio, and X. C. Yao (2012). In vivo confocal intrinsic optical signal identification of localized retinal dysfunction. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 53(13):8139-8145.   23150616 
X. C. Yao, Y.C. Li, W.X. Cui, W. Zhang, R.W. Lu, A. Thompson, F. Amthor, and X.J. Wang. (2012). “Functional imaging of glucose-evoked rat islet activities using transient intrinsic optical signals”. Journal of Modern Optics 59, 843-847.   21263546 
R.W. Lu, C. A. Curcio, Y. Zhang, Q.X. Zhang, S. J. Pittler, D. Deretic, and X. C. Yao. (2012). Investigation of the hyper-reflective 'inner/outer segment' band in optical coherence tomography of living frog retina. Journal of Biomedical Optics 17, 060504.  22734727 
Q.X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, R.W. Lu, Y. C. Li, S. J. Pittler, T. W. Kraft and X. C. Yao. (2012). “Comparative intrinsic optical signal imaging of wild-type and mutant mouse retinas”. Optics Express 20,7646-7654.   22453443 
Y.C. Li, J. M. Luo, R.W. Lu, K. M. Liu, A. M. Levy, and X.C. Yao. (2012). Dynamic intrinsic optical signal monitoring of electrically stimulated inner retinal neural response. Journal of Modern Optics 59, 967-971    
 

Keywords
Retina, photoreceptor, neuron, axon, pancreatic islet, beta-cell, degeneration, electrophysiology, optophysiology, imaging, optical coherence tomography, confocal microscopy, intrinsic optical signal.

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