Martin Schmeing Yale University, USA
Martin performed graduate research with Tom Steitz at Yale University, studying the architecture and mechanism of the large ribosomal subunit. He then performed postdoctoral training at the LMB, Cambridge, with Venki Ramakrishnan, using cryo- EM and X-ray crystallography to investigate initiation and elongation of translation. Martin established his own laboratory at McGill University in 2010, where he studies nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs). Two aspects of particular focus of the group’s NRPS research are the catalytic event which links substrate building blocks into peptide products, and the manner in which these enzymes’ domains and modules work together in a complicated and productive catalytic cycle. Martin is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of Biochemistry, the Director of the McGill Centre for Structural Biology, an Associate Director of the McGill Facility for EM Research and the Canada Research Chair in Macromolecular Machines.
Ren Xiang Tan Nanjing University, China
China Pharmaceutical Univ. (BS 1983, MS 1986), Lanzhou Univ. (Ph D 1990, Prof. Z. J. Jia), Technical Univ. Berlin (Visiting Ph D candidate, 1989-1990, Prof. F. Bohlmann), Univ. Lausanne (Visiting scholar, 1995 and 1997, Prof. K. Hostettmann), Univ. California San Diego (Visiting scholar, 2001 and 2003, Prof. W. Fenical), Nanjing Univ. (Associate Prof., 1992; Prof., 1994-present), Nanjing Univ. of Chinese Medicine (Chair Prof., 2016-present; Vice-president, 2016-2018). He works on the discovery and biosynthesis of symbiont- derived bioactive natural products. Yi Tang Penn State University, USA Yi Tang received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and Material Science from Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology under the guidance of Prof. David A. Tirrell. After NIH postdoctoral training in Chemical Biology from Prof. Chaitan Khosla at Stanford University, he started his independent career at University of California Los Angeles in 2004. He is currently a professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA, and holds joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; and Department of Bioengineering. His awards include the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2012), the EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2012), NIH DP1 Director Pioneer Award (2012) and the ACS Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (2014)
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