Jeff Chen
GRADUATE STUDENT, Chemical Biology Interface Training Program
B.S. 2019: University of British Columbia
M.S. 2022: University of Toronto
yc49[at]illinois.edu
Jeff grew up in Vancouver, Canada and received his B.S. from the University of British Columbia in 2019 where he double majored in Biochemistry and Biology. He completed his M.S. in 2022 with Dr. Eliana Gonzales-Vigil at the University of Toronto where he studied the substrate specificity of 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthases in plant cuticular wax biosynthesis. In the van der Donk lab, he is currently investigating the mechanism of multinuclear non-heme iron-dependent oxidative enzymes (MNIOs).