Research Interests:

® Structural and functional study of disease-related membrane proteins (receptors & ion channels) or solutable proteins using solution & solid state NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance), EPR (Electron Paramagnetic Resonance) and biochemical techniques.

® Site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acid  for protein structure and function analysis.

® Research works of quantum simulation and quantum computation on NMR quantum simulator under high magnetic field condition.

Current Research Projects:

National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program):

® The life cycle of proteins and their molecular mechanism of regulations (Grant: 2012CB917202)

® Solid-state quantum computation research based on spin quantum control (Grant: 2013CB921800)

National Natural Science Foundation of China:

® Quantum simulation on NMR system with high magnetic field  (Grant: 11374308 )

® Studies on the conformational change and dynamic process of phytohormone ABA receptors PYL2/10 upon the binding of ABA using both NMR and X-ray crystallography (Grant: 31100538)

® Transportation process studies of E. coli glutamate/g-amino butyric acid antiporter GadC using ¹⁹F site-specific labeling and ¹⁹F NMR (Grant: 31300685)