Yue Yu

B.S. 2019: Nanjing University

yuey15[at]illinois.edu

Yue was born in Suzhou, China, and received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University. He started off studying photoluminescence spectroscopy and later went on to develop the asymmetric functionalization of protein-containing dehydroalanine. In the van der Donk lab, he is investigating novel lantibiotics and the functions of short LanBs.