Experience

LONE STAR COLLEGE - KINGWOOD

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Sep 2019 - Present



Wyzant

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutor

  • Mar 2015 - Present



Baylor College of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • Apr 2011 - Nov 2012

  • Expression and purification of highly challenging protein constructs in bacteria and insect cells • Pioneered in refolding highly challenging protein constructs using high-throughput methods• Supervised five graduate students with their research projects related to protein biochemistry



University of Kentucky

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Scholar

  • Feb 2005 - Mar 2008

  • Crystalized highly challenging protein nucleic acid binary complexes• Deciphered molecular mechanisms of gene mutations in DNA binding domains of HNF 1β and HNF 4α in development of Type 2 diabetes• Intensively studied interactions between proteins and DNA using biophysical approaches such as UV, electrophoresis, LC, isothermal titration calorimetry, CD and dynamic light scattering • Supervised two undergraduate students with their summer research projects



Tufts Medical Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

  • Expressed and purified the outer membrane protein of the oligopeptode permease A (oppA1) from lyme disease causative bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi using extensive chromatographic methods• Quantitated regulation of oppA genes by alternative sigma factors by RT PCR and real time PCR



State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Oct 1999 - Dec 2003

  • Isolated, purified and characterized highly active fungal laccase isozymes from white rot fungi• Modified and immobilized laccase with cutting edge techniques without losing enzyme activity• Achieved marvelously high efficiency of biodegradation of recalcitrant pollutants, analyzed by various chromatographic techniques• Invented novel biotechnology by applying laccase to many industrial processes such as biopulping and biobleaching, food and wine refining, environmental bioremediation, biodefense and so on



Nanjing University

• China
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research and Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 1997 - Jul 1999

  • Constructed a novel fungal strain using the novel inter-kingdom fusion techniques • Achieved high efficiency by applying the novel fungal strain to degradation of recalcitrant pollutants in petroleum refining wastewaters• Compiled the laboratory manual and taught the course ‘Experiments in Biotechnology’ to a class of 12 undergraduate students