Jijie Chai
Jijie Chai earned his PhD in analytical chemistry from Peking Union Medical University in China in 1997. Following the completion of his postdoctoral research at Princeton University in 2004, he became an assistant investigator of the National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS) in Beijing, China. From 2017 to 2023, he held the position of Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Germany. In early 2023, he joined Westlake University as a Chair Professor. As a structural biologist, his research focuses on the investigation of plant receptor-like kinases (RLKs) and NOD-like receptors (NLRs). His studies have elucidated the structural and biochemical mechanisms responsible for ligand recognition and activation in these two protein families. Last year, he was honored with the Future Science Prize for his contributions to the identification and structural elucidation of plant NLR resistosomes.
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