Postdoctoral Fellows

Xiaochao obtained his B.Sc. in Pharmacy from Peking University and received his Ph.D. in Chemical Biology under the supervision of Dr. Zhongjun Li at the same university in 2015. His Ph.D. research was focused on the carbohydrate-based approach for the total synthesis of (-)-dinemasones B & C and biological activies evaluation. In the same year, he joined Dr. Lowary’s group as a postdoctoral fellow. His current research involves the synthesis of intermediate GlfT1 substrate in AG biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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.