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Yifan Cheng

Yifan Cheng

University of California, San Francisco & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
National Academy of Sciences

Dr. Yifan Cheng is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Cheng obtained his bachelor’s degree in Physics at Wuhan University in 1982, and completed his doctoral degree in Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.  In 2006, he joined the faculty of University of California, San Francisco, where his lab continues to use Cryo-EM to study the 3D structure of macromolecules. Learn more about Cheng’s research at his lab website.

Talks with this Speaker

Single Particle Cryo-EM

Yifan Cheng overviews the principles of Cryo-EM, and describes how advances in this technique have allowed scientists to solve biological structures to atomic resolution. (Talk recorded in May 2017)

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