Principal Investigator

       

Chuanliu Wu (吴川六)

Professor
Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, China
Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis & Instrumentation, Ministry of Education
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces

Postdoc, ETH Zurich (2010–2012)
Research Assistant, National University of Singapore (2008–2009)
Ph.D., Xiamen University (2005–2010)
B.S., Xiamen University (2001–2005)

 

 

Graduates


Hongtan Liu

Ph. D. Student

Grade: 2021

Jie Zhuang

Ph. D. Student

Grade: 2021

Mingjing Ye

Ph. D. Student

Grade: 2022

Xueting Cheng

Ph. D. Student

Grade: 2023

Mingshui Wang

Ph. D. Student

Grade: 2024

Yue Zhang

Ph. D. Student

Grade: 2024

Shuling Xiao

M. S. Student

Grade: 2022

Lin Pan

M. S. Student

Grade: 2023

Ranfeng Ye

M. S. Student

Grade: 2023

Ping Chai

M. S. Student

Grade: 2024

Qianqian Lv

M. S. Student

Grade: 2024

Alumni

Sicong Yao

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2024

Shihui Fan

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2024

Chaoying Xu

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2024

Bingni Lin

M. S. Student

Graduated in 2024

Yifu Kong

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2023

Jinjing Li

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2023

Junjie Liu

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2023

Zengping Duan

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2023

Chuilian Kong

M. S. Student

Graduated in 2023

Yike Zhang

M. S. Student

Graduated in 2023

Shuaimin Lu

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2022

Xiaoting Meng

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2022

Yapei Wu

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2022

Meng Dong

M. S.

Graduated in 2022

Ziyan Liu

M. S.

Graduated in 2022

Shilong Zhang

M. S.

Graduated in 2022

       

Huilei Dong

Ph. D.

Graduated in 2021

       

Jun Zha

Ph. D.

Graduated in 2021

       

Weidong Liu

Ph. D.

Graduated in 2021

Cong Li

M. S.

Graduated in 2021

Yaqi Wu

M. S

Graduated in 2021

       

Shiyan Cheng

M. S.

Graduated in 2020

       

Xuejun Zheng

M. S.

Graduated in 2020

 

I obtained my bachelor's degree and joined professor Wu's group in 2017. My research focus on developing new methodologies to improve the stability of peptides as well as precisely regulate and effficient lock of linear peptides into multicyclic topologies with less isomers.

       

Xiaoli Zheng

M. S.

Graduated in 2020

I joined the group in Sept. 2017 as a master student. I take the research as a long-distance running which needs to persist. I’m working to screen selective and high affinity inhibitors for proteins implicated in pathologic cell survival by phage display technology and modify peptides that display on the gⅢp of filamentous phage by the chemical post-translational modification.

       

Yang Shen

M. S.

Graduated in 2020

 

I joined Prof. Wu's research team in September 2017 as a master student. My current research focuses on using dynamic covalent disulfide bonds and hydrazone to build a new trimer which can be used as an efficient linker to enhance stability of proteins.

       

Zirong Huang

M. S.

Graduated in 2020

My research focuses on developing unnatural amino acids compatible with solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), which can be used for studying structural motifs and functional peptides.

       

Wei Gao

Ph. D.

Graduated in 2018

 

1. Deciphering the molecular mechanism of thiol-mediated disulfide exchange reactions on the cell surface.
2. Develop novel strategies to improve cell uptake based on the thiol-thioether exchange reactions on the cell surface.

          

Zhuoru Li

Ph. D.



Develop novel tools based on unnatural amino acids (cysteine analogues) and small molecules for peptide modification and cyclization.

       

Jingjing Liang

Ph. D.

Graduated in 2019


My research focus on designing drug molecules which target specific protein and can escape endosomes.

       

Yiwu Zheng

Ph.D.

Graduated in 2019


Disulfide: nature's gift to chemists. My goal is to decipher the molecular principles that govern precise disulfide pairing and also work to develop a suite of new probes that provide fundamental insight into Disulfide redox-biological fate.


       

Ping Lin

M. S.

Graduated in 2019

Phage display technology as an in vitro selection system is based on the expression of large peptide libraries on the surface of filamentous phage. My work is to screen bicyclic peptides which bind to protein targets with high affinity and selectivity.

       

Qianran Fei

M. S.

Graduated in 2019

        

Yaqi Chen

Ph. D.

Graduated in 2018


Peptides are promising molecular scaffolds for the development of potential therapeutics due to the high affinity and specificity to biomacromolecules. However, inherent instability towards proteolytic digestion limits their applications. My research is to exploit new strategies to improve the secondary structure and proteolytic stability of peptides, then benefit the development of peptide therapeutics and probes.

       

Jun Liu

Ph. D.

Graduated in 2018

       

Mirao Zha

M. S.

Graduated in 2018

       

Jinghui Wang

M. S.

Graduated in 2017

       

Jing Ren

M. S.

Graduated in 2017

       

Shunqing Zhou

M. S.

Graduated in 2017