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Minge Du, Ph.D.

Minge Du, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow, Huilin Li Laboratory
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Biography

Dr. Minge Du has her Ph.D. in biochemistry and structural biology from Van Andel Institute Graduate School, an M.S. in genetics from Southeast University (China) and a B.S. in bioscience from Ludong University (China). Her graduate work focused on studying the assembling mechanisms on type 1 and P pilus of uropathogenic E.coli. Dr. Du is skilled in single-particle cryo-EM structure work, molecular cloning, genomic editing, among other lab abilities. In 2020, she joined the lab of Dr. Huilin Li as a postdoctoral fellow.

 

Current research focus

Dr. Du’s research focuses on overexpressing and purifying membrane proteins from mammalian cell culture to determine its cryo-EM structures with or without its substrate and to find its catalytic mechanism as well as how it modify its substrate.

Education & Training

Ph.D. in biochemistry and structural biology, Van Andel Institute Graduate School
Thesis: Study the assembling mechanisms on type 1 and P pilus of uropathogenic E.coli

M.S. in genetics, Southeast University (China)

B.S. in bioscience, Ludong University (China)

Publications

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Du M, Yaun Z, Yu H, Henderson N, Sarowar S, Zhao G, Werneburg GT, Thanassi DG, Li H. 2018. Handover mechanism of the growing pilus by the bacterial outer-membrane usher FimD. Nature.

Sun L, Yan M, Ding Z, Liu Y, Du M, Xi P, Liao J, Ji L, Jiang Z. 2014. Improved dominant selection markers and co-culturing conditions for efficient Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Ustilago scitaminea. Biotechnol Lett 36(6): 1309–1314.

CM Koh, Yanbin Liu, Hnin Si Moe, Minge Du, Lianghui Ji. 2014. Molecular characterization of KU70 and KU80 homologues 1 and exploitation of a KU70-deficient mutant for improving gene deletion frequency in Rhodosporidium toruloides. BMC Microbiol.

Zuanning Yuan, Minge Du, Yiwen Chen, Fei Dou. 2013. Isolation of a human single-domain antibody specifically recognizes beta-amyloid oligomers using phage display technology. Neural regeneration research. 33:3107-15).

Yuan Z, Du M, Chen Y, Dou F. 2013. Construction of human Fab library and screening of a single-domain antibody of amyloid-beta 42 oligmers. Neural Regen Res 8(33):3107–3115.