Jun Ohata

Jun was born and raised in Japan. Jun received his B.S. in 2011 and his M.S. in 2013 from Osaka Prefecture University, where he worked in Hiroyuki Matsuzaka’s group examining the reactive carbon species on ruthenium complexes (synthesis of metal complexes). Jun received his Ph.D. in 2018 in Zachary Ball’s group at Rice University studying transition metal-mediated protein bioconjugation (utilization of metal catalysis). As a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow, Jun worked in Christopher Chang’s group at the University of California, Berkeley for two years to develop detection methods of calcium and copper ions in living systems through protein labeling (visualization of metals). In 2020, Jun moved to North Carolina State University as Assistant Professor (Department of Chemistry).