Davis, California, United States
As an associate Professor to be designed as principle investigator and co-investigator for more than ten Funded Projects in China. ⸙ Isolation and purification more than two hundred of compounds from different species of plants and some kinds of mushrooms, and there are more than 50 new compounds and 2 novel structured compounds. ⸙ The identification of compounds including: lignans, alkaloids, sterols, flavonoids, phenols, triterpenes, sesquiterpenoids, coumarins etc. It is also discovered that several bio-activity compounds. ⸙ Development of analytical methods to sensitive quantification of secondary metabolites by UPLC-MS and food additives by HPLC-UV. ⸙ Characterization and structural analysis of specifical enzymes. ⸙ Supervising 3 graduate students for master degree ⸙ Supervise and train laboratory junior person regarding related analytical techniques. ⸙ Organization and maintenance of operation of lab instruments ⸙ Writing funding and managing budget of projects ⸙ Over 50 peer-reviewed journal papers, total times cited > 500, H-index=14.
As a research scientist to host and participate in several natural product chemical projects responsible for qualitative and quantitative analysis, and activity test. ⸙ Preparation high purity standard ⸙ Structure identification and elucidation for unknow compounds ⸙ Find new active constituents from natural product ⸙ Develop and validate of analytical methods ⸙ Bio-activity test and analysis for chemical composition ⸙ Train laboratory person regarding all analytical techniques used in the study ⸙ Documentation of work performed in the laboratory notebook, worksheets, instrument logbooks