Dr Yi Jin
Lecturer, Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow
The University of Manchester
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Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
John Garside Building
The University of Manchester
131 Princess Street
Manchester
M1 7DN
United Kingdom
Biography
Yi Jin (金轶)took her BSc degree in Chemistry in 2005 from Xiamen University, China. In 2008, she obtained her MSc degree in Organic Chemistry after completing her Master's thesis in the group of Prof. Yufen Zhao (赵玉芬), Academician of CAS, at Xiamen University, working on the synthesis of transition state analogue inhibitors of phosphoserine phosphatase and phosphopeptides. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Overseas Research Studentship (ORS) by British Council and came to the UK for her PhD under the guidance of Prof. Jon P. Waltho and Prof. G. Mike Blackburn at the University of Sheffield, UK (see the "Holy Grail or Trojan Horse" story behind). During this period, she expanded the usage of metal fluoride complexes as mimics of phosphoryl group in various key enzymes in cellular signal transduction in NMR and crystallography. She stayed in the same lab as a postdoc for 2 years working on the strain catalysis of DNA repairing enzyme UNG using multi-dimensional NMR. In 2014, she moved to the group of Prof. Gideon J. Davies, FRS, FMedSci in YSBL, University of York, UK, working on various carbohydrate processing enzymes, including the first glycosyl hydrolases in sulfo-glycolytic pathways, the first mannosidase in GH134 family, and using activity based-probes to trap glucuronidases in action.
In May 2017, she was appointed as a University Research Fellow at Cardiff University to begin her independent research career. In August 2021, she was appointed as a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester.
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Presentations
(Jun-Dec 2024 Maternity Leave)
Apr 2024 RSC Fluorine Interest Group Postgraduate Symposium, Newcastle, UK (Plenary)
Dec 2023 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology, Beijing, China
Dec 2023 RSC Protein and Peptide Science Group (PPSG) webinar series, online
Nov 2023 Biodiscovery Institute, University of Nottingham, UK
Nov 2023 RSC Carbohydrate Group Winter meeting, Manchester, UK (Organiser)
Sept 2023 School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK
Jun 2023 UoM AMR Network Industrial Showcase, UK
May 2023 National Defense Medical Centre, Taiwan, online
May 2023 School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, UK
May 2023 European Symposium on Biological and Organic Chemistry, Gregynog, UK
Nov 2022 Tri-service General Hospital, Taiwan, online
Jun 2022 Association of British Chinese Professors (ABCP) Anual Conference, online
May 2022 European Symposium on Biological and Organic Chemistry, Gregynog, UK
Feb 2022 Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick. Norfork, UK
Nov 2021 Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol. Bristol, UK
Oct 2021 Department of Chemical Biology, Xiamen University. Xiamen, China
Nov 2020 Wilfrid Laurier University, webinar. Waterloo, Canada
Oct 2020 MRC Protein Phosphorylation and ubiquitylation Unit. Dundee, UK
Oct 2020 European Glycoscience Community webinar. RSC
Jan 2020 Dalian University of Technology. Dalian, China
Dec 2019 International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry-12. Shenzhen, China
Sept 2019 Beijing Normal University. Beijing, China
Jun 2019 Max-Planck Developmental Biology. Tubingen, Germany
May 2019 Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University. Cardiff, UK
May 2018 European Symposium on Biological and Organic Chemistry. Gregynog, UK
Jan 2018 Global Scientist Forum SUSTech, Shenzhen, China
Sept 2017 Xiamen-Cardiff Bilateral Workshop in Chemistry. Xiamen, China
Sept 2017 RSC Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group Symposium. Firbush, UK
Jul 2017 South West Structure Biology Conference. Cardiff, UK
May 2017 Cardiff Chemistry Conference, Cardiff University. Cardiff, UK
Jan 2017 Department of Chemical Biology, Xiamen University. Xiamen, China
Dec 2016 Silk Road Young Scholar’s Forum. Xi’an, China
Oct 2016 International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry. Kazan, Russia
Oct 2014 Krebs Institute Symposium. Sheffield, UK
Oct 2010 White Rose Protein Forum Meeting. Sheffield, UK
Jun 2010 Trends in Enzymology. Ascona, Switzerland