Assistant University

Gang Xia

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Vestavia, AL *****

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Personal Profile

A passionate, dedicated Chemistry scientist in drug synthesis for cancer prevention and treatment.

A skilled structure biologist focusing on crystal structures of macromolecule complexes.

An experienced researcher capable of performing and interpreting multiple analysis instruments including UV-Vis, Fluorescence, Circular Dichrosim, IR, ITC, HPLC, GC-MS, MS-MALDI, SDS-PAGE, NMR.

A diligent researcher in colloidal and electro- chemistry (M.S.)

Experience

Working Experience

2011.2 – Present

Research assistant in Chemistry department, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Duty: Protein expression, purification and characterization (HPLC, SEC, Affinity Column)

Spectroscopy studies on protein and drugs (.UV-Vis, Fluorescence, Circular Dichrosim, ITC, MS-MALDI, SDS-PAGE)

Structure biology of macromolecule complex (X-ray crystallography; quantum calculation)

Teaching Experience

2002.8 - 2010.12

Teaching assistant in multiple Chemistry lab sections, UAB

Duty: CH116, CH118 (General chemistry techniques)

CH236, CH238 (Orgniaic chemistry technique; FT-IR, GC, NMR)

CH461 (Biochemistry chemistry tenchniques; UV-Vis, MS-MALDI/ESI; SDS-PAGE)

Education

Ph. D. – Biophysical Chemistry (Macromolecule crystallography and Binding analysis) – University of Alabama at Birmingham – Birmingham, AL 35294, USA; 2010.12

M. S. – Physical Chemistry (Electrochemistry) – Yangzhou University – Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China; 2002.7

B.S. – Chemistry (Chemistry education) – Nanjing Normal University – Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China; 1999.6

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Publication

Boerma, L.J., Gang, Xia, Cox, B., Muccio, D.D., Renfrow, M.B., “Structural and functional analysis of anticancer rexinoids” manuscript in preparation

Gang Xia; LeeAnn J Boerma; Bryan D Cox; Cheng Qiu; Sebyung Kang; Craig D Smith; Matthew B Renfrow; Donald D Muccio. (2010) Structure, Energetics and Dynamics of Binding Coactivator Peptide to Human Retinoid X Receptor Alpha Ligand Binding Domain Complex with 9-cis-Retinoic Acid, Biochemitry, 2011, (50) 93-105

Clinton J. Grubbs; Ronald A Lubet; Venkatram R Atigadda; Konstantin Christov; Anil M

Deshpande; Vivek Tirmal; Gang Xia; Kirby I Bland; Isao Eto; Wayne J Brouillette; Donald D Muccio. (2006) Efficacy of New Retinoids in the Prevention of Mammary Cancers and Correlations with Short-Term Biomarkers, Carcinogenesis, 27, 1232-1239

Xiaoya Hu; Gang Xia; Rong Guo. (2002) Preparation of Nanoelectrode Ensembles by Assembling Silver Colloid and Mercaptan on Gold Electrode, Bulletin of Electrochemistry (India), 18, 481-487

Gang Xia; Xiaoya Hu; Chengyin Wang; Gendi Jin; Rong Guo. (2002) Preparation of Nanoelectrode Ensembles by Assembly of Nano-Silver Colloid on Gold Surface, Chinese Chemical Letters, 13, 159-162

Gang Xia; Qin Xu; Xiaoya Hu; Rong Guo. (2002) Preparation of Nanosized Copper Colloid in the Presence of AuCl-4, J. of Yangzhou University (Nat. Sci. Ed), 4, 29-33 (Chinese)

Qin Xu; Gang Xia; Xiaoya Hu; Rong Guo. (2002) Synthesis and Characteristics of Monolayer Protected Clusters of Au Clusters Modified with nHexanthiol, J. of Yangzhou University (Nat. Sci. Ed), 3, 29-33 (Chinese)

Awards

Nominee of Excellent research award of international student in 2006

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