Dr. Fangting Yu is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on on March 12th. Her presentation is titled “De novo protein design toward creating functional metalloenzymes”.
BIO: Dr. Fangting Yu received her B.S. in Chemistry in 2009 from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, P. R. China. Her undergraduate research was focused on the influence of metal ions on the solubility of cholesterol in the aggregates of phospholipids and bile salts. She then joined Prof. Vincent Pecoraro’s group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she obtained her Ph.D. Her thesis was focused on de novo designed metallopeptides with type 2 copper centers as a model for copper nitrite reductase. She joined Prof. Elizabeth Nolan’s group at MIT in Oct. 2014 as a Postdoctoral Associate. She is currently investigating the effect of post-translational modification on immunogenic S100 proteins.