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Bo received his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry at Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China in 2012. He was trained in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry. Bo had two postdoc trainings. During 2013-2016, he worked with Dr. Gong Chen at Penn State and finished the first total synthesis of mannopeptimycin. Since 2016, he moved to the Booker lab where he used his organic synthesis expertise as a tool to study catalytic mechanism of natural product biosynthesis enzymes. Bo’s favorite food is dark chocolate and his least favorite food is milk chocolate.