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. Rashmi Roy has obtained her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2015. Her Ph.D. work was associated with glycosylation methodology development and synthesis of glycosidase inhibitors. After doing Ph.D. she worked in industry and academia. She has joined Prof. Todd Lowary’s group in April 2018. Her research area mainly focuses on synthetic carbohydrate chemistry.

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.