Technicians

Chun-Ju received her B.Sc. in Chemistry in 2017 from National Tsing Hua University, there she worked on the enzymatic synthesis of GT3 oligosaccharides in Prof. Chun-Chen Lin’s group. She then received her M.Sc. in 2019 in Biochemical Science from National Taiwan University under the supervision of Dr. Yane-Shih Wang in Academia Sinica, her thesis is mainly focused on the modification of insulin by using ferritin-based metalloenzymes. In the same year, she joined Dr. Todd Lowary’s group as a research assistant, and she is now working on the enzymatic synthesis of UDP-galactofuranose and GlfT2 assay.

Ruixiang (Blake) Zheng obtained his MSc degree in pharmacology and toxicology in 1998 and had worked in pharmaceutical analysis area for 4 years in China. He joined AICCS in 2004. He coordinates multiple projects and focuses on the expression, mutagenesis, purification and characterization of enzymes and expression, purification and cleavage of antibodies and chemoenzymatic synthesis.

Jeremy grew up in Edmonton and is completing his bachelors degree in chemistry with a minor in biological sciences. He joined the Lowary group in the fall of 2016 and is working on synthesizing a series of human intelectin 1 ligands to be used for phage-based ligand identification.

Cheng-Ruei Han, achieved his Bachelor and Master degree of Pharmacy in Kaohsiung Medical University in 2016 and 2018. Under the supervision of Dr. Chih-Hua Tseng his research focused on the design and synthesis of anti-dengue virus agents during his master degree. He joined Dr. Lowary’s group as a research assistant in 2019. He is currently working on the preparation of materials for Automated Glycan Assembly Machine in order to give large oligosaccharides for further research.

Wei-Ting Chang received her master’s degree in chemistry at National Taiwan University and got an excellent poster award in a graduate poster exhibition. Since 2020, she has been a research assistant in Dr. Lowary’s lab. In the lab, she is currently working on development of the fungal detection kit which aims to avoid the false-positive result from bacterial infections. The major part of her research is focused on synthesizing analogues of Norcardia galactan. Her research interests include probe design for distinguishing different resistance bacteria, design of real-time turn-on fluorescence probe, and study on the mechanism of drug releasing process.