Yanli Wang is a professor in Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a HHMI International Research Scholar. Prof. Wang has completed her PhD from University of Science and Technology of China and postdoctoral studies from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Prof. Wang's group interests in understanding how small regulatory RNA or DNA mediates prokaryotic defense against invasion by foreign nucleic acids. The main focus of her work is to systematically demonstrate the mechanisms of the CRISPR-Cas system, and Ago protein-mediated DNA interference.