Karen Yap

Research Associate

Makeyev group

Biography:

Degree in National University of Singapore

PhD in Nanyang Technological University

Worked as a Clinical Trial Coordinator in Singapore General Hospital

Current project: Understanding the regulation of alternative splicing in neurodevelopment.

Public Engagement

All Publications:

2025

Yap K, Chung TH, Hedges EC, Nishimura AL, Shaw CE, Makeyev EV (2025) Enhanced hybridization-proximity labeling discovers protein interactomes of single RNA molecules. Nat Commun

2024

Zhuravskaya A, Yap K, Hamid F, Makeyev EV (2024) Alternative splicing coupled to nonsense-mediated decay coordinates downregulation of non-neuronal genes in developing mouse neurons. Genome Biol

2022

Yap K, Chung TH, Makeyev EV (2022) Analysis of RNA-containing compartments by hybridization and proximity labeling in cultured human cells. STAR Protoc

2018

Yap K, Mukhina S, Zhang G, Tan JSC, Ong HS, Makeyev EV (2018) A Short Tandem Repeat-Enriched RNA Assembles a Nuclear Compartment to Control Alternative Splicing and Promote Cell Survival. Mol Cell

2017

Verbeeren J, Verma B, Niemelä EH, Yap K, Makeyev EV, Frilander MJ (2017) Alternative exon definition events control the choice between nuclear retention and cytoplasmic export of U11/U12-65K mRNA. PLoS Genet

Karen Yap

Biography:

Public Engagement

Celebrating British Science Week!

Second edition of the DevNeuro Academy!

Global Engagement - King's Worldwide

Brain Awareness Week Science Café!

Dev Neuro Academy 2017