Speaker: Xiongyi Huang, Assistant Professor, John Hopkins
Title: Unlocking New-to-Nature Transition Metal Catalysis in Nonheme Enzymes
Host: Shiyu Zhang
Xiongyi grew up in Guilin – a small and quiet city in China known for its karst landscape. He received his B.S. Degree in Chemistry in 2010 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he worked on computational organic chemistry under the guidance of Prof. Yao Fu and Prof. Jing Shi. He then came to the United States and completed his graduate studies with Prof. John T. Groves at Princeton University as an HHMI International Predoctoral Fellow. After receiving his PhD in 2016, Xiongyi worked with Prof. Frances Arnold at Caltech, first as an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow and later as an NIH Pathway to Independence Postdoctoral Fellow. Xiongyi began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University in September 2019. Xiongyi joined the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor in September 2019. His research focuses on engineering metalloenzymes, particularly nonheme enzymes, to catalyze synthetic reactions currently absent in the reaction repertoire of enzymes. Xiongyi has been recognized with several awards, including the Packard Fellowship and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
