Lu Research Group
Jan. 2023
Dr. Wei Xiong, once a PhD student and then a postdoc of the Lu group, finishes his 8-year journey at PKU. He will join Prof. Gutekunst' group as a postdoc at Georgia Tech. We sincerely thank him for his dedication and contribution to the group, and wish him all the best and continous success in his new role.
[Group Activity] The Lu lab enjoys the beautiful autumn of Beijing
Oct. 2022
Fall is in town! The Lu lab went out for a hiking on the west moutain trail, a 8 km track built mostly by wooden trestle and with a gorgeous scene overseeing the beautiful Yanqi Lake and City Huairou.
[AWARDS] Lu Jianhua Won National Graduate Student Scholarship and the ChemStar Contest of CCME
Sept. 2022
Our 5th year student Lu Jianhua was awarded the prestigious 2022 ChemStar Award of CCME based on her recent work reporting an interesting aggregation-induce polymerization concept which enabled the synthesis of protein-polydisulfide conjugates under mild conditions. This is her second ChemStar Award after she won the same award first in 2020, great job!
[Graduation] Sun Jialing is now officially a doctor, and the Lu lab celebrates the 8th PhD.
May 24th 2022
Big congratulations to Jialing, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on May 24th. Her research focuses on investigating the long term biosafety and the origin of low immunogenicity of polypeptide-protein conjugates. We will miss her and wish her all the best in the future.
[Farewell] Dr. Wu Guangqi joined MIT as a postdoc
May 2022
This month, we say goodbye to beloved Guangqi, who finished his 7-year journey as a PhD student from 2015 to 2020 and then a postdoc from 2020 to 2022 in the Lu lab. Guangqi will join Dr. Coley's group at MIT as a postdoc soon. We thank him for his time, service, and legacy, and wish him all the best in his new adventure.
[PUBLICATIONS] Dr. Hu Yali’s paper published in Natl. Sci. Rev.
Mar. 2022
In this work, we reported the unexpected water-assisted controlled ROP of ProNCA, which affords well-defined PLP as polyproline II helices in 2-5 minutes and almost quantitative yields. Well done, Yali!
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwac033/6535632
[PUBLICATIONS] Dr. Zhang Chong’s paper published in Chinese J. Polym. Sci.
Mar. 2022
In this work, we reviewed the state-of-the-art progresses of α-helical polypeptides for biomedical applications, with a special emphasis on the manipulation of helix-to-coil dynamic transition, conformation-associated anti-biofouling coatings, cellular uptake regulation, and reducing immunogenicity of polypeptide-protein conjugates. Well done, Zhang Chong!
http://www.cjps.org/article/doi/10.1007/s10118-022-2688-2?pageType=en
[PUBLICATIONS] Dr. Tian Zi-You’s paper published in Nat. Commun.
Oct. 2021
In this work, we developed a moisture-tolerant method enabling the facile synthesis of various challenging amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides, which could eventually greatly facilitate polypeptide preparation. Well done, Ziyou!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25689-y
[CONFERENCE] The Lu group in 2021 National Polymer Congress of China
September 2021
Dr. Lu is a co-organizer of the Young Scholar Symposium and delivered an invited talk.
Dr. Wu, Dr. Xiong, and Dr. Tian each gave a poster.
Dr. Tian Ziyou received the RSC Polymer Chemistry Poster Prize
Ms. Lu Jianhua received the general Best Poster Prize.
Congratulations to all of them!
[Award] JACS Early Career Investigators
September 2021
A JACS paper published from our group in 2020 (Lu, J. H. et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 3, 1217-1221; DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b12937) was recognized and collected in the 2021 JACS Early Career Investigators Virtual Issue!
https://pubs.acs.org/page/jacsat/vi/early-career-investigator2021
