Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Sciences Lecture Series - No. 182
Dynamics of the Functional Structure of Acetylcholinesterase
Topic：Dynamics of the Functional Structure of Acetylcholinesterase
Speaker: Yechun Xu, Ph.D., Professor, CAS Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Chair：Prof. Hai-Bin Luo, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University
Time：Friday, May 16st, 2014, 11:00 a.m.
Venue：125 Meeting Room, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, East Campus, SYSU
Introduction to the speaker:
Dr. Yechun Xu is a professor of CAS Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica. She graduated from Chemistry Department of East China Normal University in 1999 and obtained her master degree at the same department two years later. Dr. Xu received her doctor degree in 2004 at CAS Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica. After graduation, Dr. Xu worked at CAS Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica for one year and pursuit her postdoctor fellowship at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science in 2005 and returned to Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica supported by “Hundred Talents” Project of CAS.
Dr. Xu performed reseach on the molecular mechanism in the interactions between proteins and molecules for Alzheimer's disease and other major diseases, structural elucidation of important proteins, and the discovery of a large number of active compounds mainly via theoretical and experiment methods.
Dr. Xu has published more than 50 research papers. In 29 articles, she works as the first or corresponding author such as in PNAS, JACS, and JMC. Till now, she has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, "Hundred Talents Program" of CAS, and Shanghai "Pujiang Talent" plan for scientific research projects. She has won the National Top 100 Doctoral Thesis Award, CAS-Novo Nordisk the Great Wall Professor Award, and Chinese Pharmaceutical Association-Servier Young Medicinal Chemistry Award.
All are welcome to the lecture!
