Jin Yu

Experience

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  Peking University

  Sept 2013 - Jun 2016

  Research Assistant in Professor Hua Lu’s Lab Main Project: Protein-polymer conjugation• Incorporated unnatural amino acid (UAA) into antibodies and model proteins in order to conjugate with polymer• Optimized sortase mediated ligation (SML) between polymer and proteins• Constructed plasmid to obtain a protein mutation for native chemical ligation (NCL) siRNAand drug delivery• Synthesized a bi-function drug with more than 20 steps• Analyzed drug cytotoxicity and siRNA transfection with in vitro experiments Show less

  • Research Assistant, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering

    Jul 2014 - Jun 2016

  • Research Assistant, Department of Chemical Biology

    Sept 2013 - Jul 2014
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  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Aug 2016 - May 2018

  Research Assistant in Professor Charles M. Schroeder’s Lab Main Project: Single polymer dynamics studies• Synthesized super high molecular weight fluorescent polymer for single polymer studies• Synthesized DNA-Pi core conjugation for self-assembly studies• Characterized DNA-PEI complex with single polymer dynamics methods Research Assistant in Professor Jianjun Cheng’s Lab MainProject: Selectively sugar labeling• Developed new galactose-based and Pd-based trigger-response sugars• Screened selectively labeling sugars for lymphoma

  • Research Assistant, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

    Aug 2017 - May 2018

  • Research Assistant, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

    Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
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  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Sept 2019 - now

  Research Assistant

  Research Assistant in Professor.Nakamura's lab, Department of Food Science and Human NutritionData analysis for iDip programObesity researchBusiness development