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Educations: 

• 1998 B.A   University of California, Berkeley, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley, CA

• 2005 Ph.D  University of Georgia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Athens, GA (Thesis adviser: Michael Pierce, Ph.D) 

Research and Professional experiences: 

• 02/2014 – 12/2021 Co-Principal Investigator (with James E. Rothman, PhD), Lab of Nanoscale Cell Biology, School of Life Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

• 02/2014- 04/2020  Visiting Scholar, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (Principal Investigator: James Rothman, Ph.D)

• 11/2011-01/2014 Associate Research Scientist, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (Adviser: James Rothman, Ph.D) 

• 11/2008 – 10/2011 Postdoctoral associate, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (Adviser: James Rothman, Ph.D)

• 06/2005 – 10/2008 NIH Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis, MO (Adviser: Stuart Kornfeld, M.D) 

• 8/1998 – 5/2005 Ph.D program, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia,  Athens, GA (Adviser: Michael Pierce, Ph.D) 

Honors and Awards:

• 2016-present  American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Ambassador to ShanghaiTech University

• 2005-2008 NIH postdoctoral training grant, Washington University Medical School, St.Louis, MO, USA 

• 2004 Travel Award from the Society for Glycobiology for the 2004 Glycobiology conference, Honolulu, Hawaii

• 2003 Abstract selected for oral presentation, Gordon Conference for Glycobiology 2003, Ventura, CA, USA

• 1996-1997 International Student Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA