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Education

09/2017-05/2023

05/2020-12/2023

Michigan State University

(GPA 4.00/4.00)

09/2013-07/2017

Nanjing University, P.R.China

(GPA 3.55/4.00) (Ying-Cai Honored Program)

09/2017-Present

09/2019 - Present

Instructed by Dr. Kenneth M. Merz Jr.

Published five articles (four first author, one under review) on JCTC and JCIM, top-tier journals in computational chemistry.
Went through painful yet fruitful transition from experimentalist to theorist by team working with cut-edge researchers and self learning on programming languages and simulation packages.
Learned how to operate AMBER package to conduct complex simulations and free energy calculations, like thermodynamic integrations and potential of mean force, even on membranes protein systems.
Did software engineering on the AMBER source code to implement pairwise chemical potential between atoms.
Provided important parameters on metal ions for the simulation community.

09/2017 - 05/2019

Instructed by Dr. Heedeok Hong

Published one article about membrane protein homeostasis
Conducted E.coli culture (BL21, DH5α), PCR, primer design, membrane protein expression and purification using Nickel affinity column and size exclusion liquid chromatography.
Conducted protein activity assay using casein as substrate.

05/2015 - 07/2017

Instructed by Dr. Jing Zhao

Published one article on Science Advances (IF=15) about hydrogen biocatalysts using in E.coli surface display.
Conducted anaerobic bacterial culture.
Used Bio-Brick technique to construct a plasmid with seven pieces of artificially designed hydrogenase sequences.
Conducted gas chromatography on measuring hydrogen production.

Instructed by Dr. Joseph Ward, Dr. Remi Beaulac, Dr. Johanna Herman and Dr. Mengqi Zhang

Taught CEM161, CEM162, CEM255 in the Chemistry Department of Michigan State University.
Obtained Teaching Merit Award in 2018.
Lead more than 400 students in completing more than 20 chemistry projects, varying from kinetic clock reaction to acetanilide synthesis.
Many students were later admitted by famous programs including the Medicine Program at St. George's University and the Veterinary Medicine Program at Michigan State University.

2018 Education Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Michigan State University.

2015 Best Project Award in Environment, iGEM, Boston, MA.
Skillful in AMBER, Gaussian, VMD, Chimera.
Skillful in Fortran, C/C++, Python.
Skillful in plasmid extraction, PCR, enzyme kinetic assays.
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