Adhesive Interactions of Mussel Foot Proteins

Dr. Yu grew up in Hangzhou, a beautiful city in eastern China. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Yu fell in love with the great sunshine and beach of the University of California, Santa Barbara campus during his 5 years PhD where he worked in Professor Jacob Israelachvili’s group. Yu conducted and pioneered outstanding research in many important areas including the wet adhesion of marine mussel adhesive proteins. Yu’s work has been recognized by multiple international journals and online media sources including Nature, Chemical Biology, ABC Science and the Faculty of 100. Yu is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division at California Institute of Technology.

• Mussel adhesion.- Surface Interactions in Biological Systems.- Effects of interfacial redox in mussel adhesive protein films on mica.- Antioxidant is a Key Factor in Mussel Protein Adhesion.- Hydrophobic enhancement of Dopa-mediated adhesion in a mussel foot protein.- Learning from the pieces: the adhesion of mussel-inspired peptides.