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Conferences & Lectures :
24th Annual William S. Johnson Symposium

W.S. Johnson Speaker:
Dan Yang

The University of Hong Kong

About Yang:
Professor Dan Yang received her B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1985. Through the U.S.-China Chemistry Graduate Program, she obtained an M.A. from Columbia in 1988 under the guidance of Professor Ronald Breslow. She then joined Professor Daniel Kahne’s group at Princeton, and got her Ph.D. in 1991. In the same year, she won a postdoctoral fellowship award from the Cancer Research Institute in New York to support her two-year research in Professor Stuart Schreiber’s group at Harvard. In 1993, she joined the faculty at The University of Hong Kong, where she is currently a chair professor of chemistry and Morningside professor in chemical biology.

Professor Yang’s research interest ranges from synthetic organic chemistry to chemical biology, with particular focus on developing synthetic methods, total synthesis, and using both natural products and synthetic compounds to probe biological systems.

Yang's lecture at the Johnson Symposium:
"Using Synthetic Organic Chemistry to Probe Biological Mechanisms"

In this lecture, our work on using synthetic organic chemistry to probe biological mechanisms will be presented in the following two areas: (1) design, synthesis and applications of foldamers based on aminoxy acids; (2) developing fluorescent probes for highly specific detection of peroxynitrite and hypochlorous acid in cells.

Questions:
If you have questions or need additional information please contact Patricia Dwyer at 650-723-4770