Yiliang Ding is a plant scientist at the John Innes Centre. Since 2014 she has been a group leader, with a David Philips Fellowship. Ding researches RNA structure and post-transcriptional gene regulations. Ding’s research on nucleic acid chemistry and RNA biology focuses on understanding the dynamics of RNA structure in living cells. Her experimental approach to this means that she develops new approaches for revealing in vivo structurome. In particular her work on a high throughput method, Structure-seq to analyse one of the first two genome-wide in vivo RNA structure maps, this work was published in Nature in 2013. This paper "In vivo genome-wide profiling of RNA secondary structure reveals novel regulatory features" has been widely cited as a method for in vivo RNA structural analysis.