Structural Immunology / Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Bd.1172 (PDF)

Dr. Tengchuan Jin is a Professor at the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and completed his postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. His current research interests include the structural biology of the innate immune receptors, structure and function of inflammasome, molecular mechanism of microbe-host interactions, protein engineering and antibody drug development, and he has published more than 50 research articles in these fields.

Dr. Yin Qian is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Science, Florida State University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Cornell University and completed her postdoctoral training at Cornell University and Harvard Medical School under Prof. Hao Wu, a well-known structural immunologist. Dr. Qian's research interests include the activation mechanism of interferon-inducible GTPases and regulatory mechanisms of Rag GTPases in autophagy. She has published a series of high-profile research articles in the field of structural immunology.