Ming Yang
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada
Biography
Ming Yang is an Immunologist at the National Center for Foreign Animal Diseases/Canadian Food Inspection Agency, where she produces and characterizes monoclonal antibodies against vesicular disease viruses such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus, vesicular stomatitis (VS) virus and swine vesicular disease (SVD) virus. She developed several immune assays for the diagnoses of vesicular diseases, such as ELISA and lateral flow strip tests. She has published close to 40 manuscripts in the peer-reviewed journals. She graduated from University of Manitoba with MSc degree in Immunology and PhD in Microbiology.