Chanat Aonbangkhen

Dr. Chanat Aonbangkhen

• chanat.a@chula.ac.th
• chanataon@gmail.com
• https://aonbangkhenlab.wordpress.com/
• @Chanat_JJ

• Office 1520 Mahamakut Building, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Road, Patumwan Bangkok 10330, THAILAND
• 02-2187741

Education

• [2017] Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
• [2011] B.Sc. (Chemistry, 1st Honors), Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Work Experiences

• [2020 - present] Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, THAILAND
• [2018 - 2020] Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA
• [2016 - 2017] Teaching Assistant in Single Cell Analysis Course (Module: Photoactivatable single-cell probes), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, NY USA
• [2012 - 2013] Teaching Assistant in Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Lecture and General Chemistry Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA

Current Research Topics

• Organic synthesis of medicinally and biologically relevant compounds, Chemical biology of human cells, Opto-chemical (light-activatable) organic small molecules for protein dimerization in living cells, Chemical proteomics and glycoproteomics using mass spectrometry

Scholarship and Awards

• [2020] Featured in “Introducing Our Authors” by ACS Chemical Biology journal Vol.15, Issue 4, p 803-807
• [2015, 2016] Penn GAPSA Travel Award to present research at the ACS National Meetings
• [2015, 2017] American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Biological Chemistry and Division of Organic Chemistry Travel Awards
• [2011] Outstanding Poster Award, the DPST National Science and Technology Meeting
• [2009] International Horizon Project (IHP), Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University
• [2009] King Bhumibol Scholarship (Excellent Academic Achievement Award), Kasetsart University
• [2007 – 2017] The Development and Promotion of Science Talent Project scholarship awarded by Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST), Ministry of Education, Bangkok, Thailand
• [2007 – 2011] Excellent Study Prize for Science Students, Kasetsart University

Publications

•Target protein deglycosylation in living cells by a nanobody-fused split O-GlcNAcase. Nature Chemical Biology. 2021. Cited 5
•Engineering a Proximity-Directed O-GlcNAc Transferase for Selective Protein O-GlcNAcylation in Cells. ACS Chemical Biology. 2020. Cited 20
•Aspartate Residues Far from the Active Site Drive O-GlcNAc Transferase Substrate Selection. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019. Cited 17
•Reversible optogenetic control of protein function and localization. Methods in Enzymology. 2019. Cited 1
•Reversible Control of Protein Localization in Living Cells Using a Photocaged-Photocleavable Chemical Dimerizer. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2018. Cited 18
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