Chanat Aonbangkhen

Dr. Chanat Aonbangkhen

• chanat.a@chula.ac.th
• 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

Research Summary

Education

• [2018 - 2020] Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA
• [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
• [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 – 2011] Excellent Study Prize for Science Students, 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

Publications

•Target protein deglycosylation in living cells by a nanobody-fused split O-GlcNAcase. Nature Chemical Biology. 2021. Cited 14
•Engineering a Proximity-Directed O-GlcNAc Transferase for Selective Protein O-GlcNAcylation in Cells. ACS Chemical Biology. 2020. Cited 36
•Aspartate Residues Far from the Active Site Drive O-GlcNAc Transferase Substrate Selection. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019. Cited 27
•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 24
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