Postdoctoral Fellows

Junfeng received his B.Sc. in applied chemistry at Jilin University in 2008. He joined Dr. Lowry’s group as a PhD student in 2010, focusing on chemical, enzymatic and chemo-enzymatic synthesis of complex oligosaccharides as probes of glycan functions. After obtaining PhD in Feb 2016, he works as a postdoc in Dr. Lowry’s group. He is currently working on chemo-enzymatic synthesis of group B streptococcus type III (GBSIII) glycoconjugates for understanding the mechanism of glycoconjugate vaccine activation of the immune system.

Dr. Tzu-Ting Kao obtained her B.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from National Taiwan Normal University and received her Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Kak-Shan Shia with Dr. Chun-Cheng Lin at National Tsing Hua University as a co-advisor in 2016. Her Ph.D. research focused on the development of an efficient radical tandem cyclization and applied the strategy to synthesize three natural products: retrojusticidin B, justicidin E and helioxanth. In 2017, she joined Dr. Lowary’s group as a postdoctoral fellow. Her research focused on the synthesis of acceptor substrates for an enzyme GlfT2, which is involved in arabinogalactan biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.