Jun Yin
Associate Professor
Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Chemistry
B.S. (1995): Peking University, Beijing, China
M.S. (1997): Rutgers University at New Brunswick
Ph.D. (2003): University of California at Berkeley
Postdoctoral Associate (2003-2006): Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor (2006-2013): University of Chicago
Associate professor (2013-present): Georgia State University
Phone: 404-4136090
Email: junyin@gsu.edu
Associate Professor
Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Chemistry
B.S. (1995): Peking University, Beijing, China
M.S. (1997): Rutgers University at New Brunswick
Ph.D. (2003): University of California at Berkeley
Postdoctoral Associate (2003-2006): Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor (2006-2013): University of Chicago
Associate professor (2013-present): Georgia State University
Phone: 404-4136090
Email: junyin@gsu.edu
Jun Yin graduated with a B.S.
degree in Chemistry from Peking University in Beijing China in 1995. He worked
on measuring the dissolution enthalpies of buckminsterfullerenes under the
guidance of Professors Baohuai Wang and Youmin Zhang for his undergraduate
thesis. He then went to the Rutgers University at New Brunswick to work with
Professor Stephen Anderson on the Aβ peptide aggregation in the Alzheimer’s
disease. After he received a M.S. degree in Chemistry from Rutgers in 1997, he
went to work with Professor Peter G. Schultz at the Department of Chemistry of
the University of California at Berkeley on engineering catalytic antibodies
and elucidating their mechanisms of immunological evolution. He spent two years
at Berkeley and four years at The Scripps Research Institute before graduating
with a Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 2003. From 2003 to
2006, he was a postdoctoral fellow studying nonribosomal peptide synthetases
(NRPS) in Professor Christopher T. Walsh’s group at the Department of
Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. He
began his independent research in summer 2006 at the Department of Chemistry of
the University of Chicago where he led his group to engineer enzymes to label
and image cellular proteins, to elucidate the signal transduction pathways
mediated by protein ubiquitination, and to expand the natural product
biosynthetic pathways for drug discovery. He became an Associate Professor in
the Department of Chemistry and the Center for Diagnostics & Therapeutics
of the Georgia State University in summer 2013.
Horner
2011 Catalyst Award from the Chicago Biomedical Consortium and Searle Foundation
2011 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2006 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award
1995 Graduate Student Fellowship, Rutgers University
1994 Outstanding Student Scholarship, Peking University
Research Interests
Chemical biology, bioorganic chemistry, signal transduction mediated by ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme directed evolution, protein engineering by phage display and yeast cell surface display.