COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 29, 2008 – John Yin, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss his research into virus growth Wednesday, Oct. 1, as part of the Fall 2008 J. D. Lindsay Lecture Series at Texas A&M University.
Yin is scheduled to present “Pandemic in a Petri Dish: Measures and Models of Virus Growth and Infection Spread” from 3-4 p.m. in Rm. 106 of the Jack E. Brown Building. His presentation is sponsored by Texas A&M’s Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering.
Yin studies virus-host interactions, systems biology, microfluidics and pre-biotic chemistry.
His presentation will highlight his recent progress on three fronts: engineered attenuation of virus growth for live-virus vaccines, measures and models of virus growth from single infected cells, and micro-fluidic characterization of virus infections for anti-viral drug testing.
Yin received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Columbia University. He earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biophysikalische Chemie in Goettingen, Germany.
Among his many distinctions, Yin has been named a Cargill Faculty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering from the National Science Foundation (NSF). He also is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award.
In honor of Professor J.D. Lindsay, Texas A&M’s first chemical engineering department head, the department established the Lindsay Lecture Series to bring speakers to the university. Coming from both industry and academia, the lecturers are recognized for their accomplishments in the practice, teaching and/or research of chemical engineering. The series also allows the lecturers several days for visiting the university and the department and for exchanging ideas on teaching and research objectives and methods.
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