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| Elsa Yan | ||||
Elsa Yan was born in Hong Kong. In the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she began her research career as an undergraduate research assistant in the area of physical chemistry under the guidance of Professors Steve Au-Yeung and Chi Wu. In 1995, she obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry. She moved on as a graduate student in the Chemistry Department at Columbia University. She worked with Professor Kenneth Eisenthal on nonlinear optics and surface sciences. She obtained her Ph.D. with distinction in 2000. Then, she joined Professor Richard Mathies’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley. At the same time, she was a visiting fellow at The Rockefeller University working with Professor Thomas Sakmar in the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She combined Raman spectroscopy with techniques in molecular biology and biochemistry to understand the molecular mechanism of signal transduction in G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin. In 2004, she became a research assistant professor at The Rockefeller University, where she continued to develop methods in expression and purification of membrane proteins. Elsa joined the Chemistry Department at Yale University as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biophysical Chemistry. |
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