Biography of Min Zhuang

Dr. Min Zhuang is an Associate Professor (tenured) in the School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University in Shanghai, China. She obtained the Ph.D. in Structural Biology in a joint program from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Prior to joining the faculty at ShanghaiTech, she completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of California San Francisco. Dr. Zhuang has broad expertise in structural biology, protein biochemistry and ubiquitination. Her lab developed a new protein proximity labeling tool PUP-IT to facilitate the identification of weak protein-protein interactions. She is also interested in understanding the role of ubiquitination in organelle quality control.