Hello! My name is Jiayue Cui. I am currently the leader of the library production core at the Chicago Tri-Institutional Center for Chemical Methods and Library Development (CTCMLD) - one of the five NIH-funded centers for small-molecule library synthesis and probe discovery. I was born and raised in the city of Tianjin, China. I received my B.Sc. in 2004 from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University in Beijing, China, and conducted research on the synthesis of new isoquinolines under the supervision of Professors Zhen Yang and Jiahua Chen. In 2005, I joined the research group of Professor Sergey Kozmin at the University of Chicago as a graduate student, with research focusing on the development of practical syntheses of small-molecule libraries and the discovery of new bioactive chemotypes. I graduated with my Ph.D. in 2009 and joined CTCMLD in 2010. I love traveling, baseball and web design. Thank you for visiting my site! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.

• Cui, J.; Hao, J.; Ulanovskaya, O.A.; Dundas, J.; Liang, J. and Kozmin, S.A. Creation and Manipulation of Common Functional Groups en Route to a Skeletally Diverse Chemical Library. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2011, 108, 6763. PubMed Link
• Ulanovskaya, O.A.; Cui, J.; Kron, S.J. and Kozmin, S.A. A Pairwise Chemical Genetic Screen Identifies New Inhibitors of Glucose Transport. Chem. Biol. 2011, 18, 222. (Featured Article) PubMed
• Cui, J.; Matsumoto, K.; Wang, C.Y.; Peter, M.E. and Kozmin, S.A. Synthesis of a High-Purity Chemical Library Reveals a Potent Inducer of Oxidative Stress. ChemBioChem 2010, 11, 1224. PubMed
• Lee, H.; Suzuki, M.; Cui, J. and Kozmin, S.A. Synthesis of an Azide-Tagged Library of 2,3-Dihydro-4-Quinolones. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 1756. PubMed
• Rizvi, S.A.; Neidt, E.M.; Cui, J.; Feiger, Z.; Gardel, M.L.; Kozmin, S.A. and Kovar, D.R., Identification and Characterization of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of Formin-Mediated Actin Assembly. Chem. Biol. 2009, 11, 1158. (Cover story of the issue) PubMed
• Xiang, Z.; Luo, T.; Lu, K.; Cui, J.; Shi, X.; Fathi, R.; Chen, J. and Yang, Z. Concise Synthesis of Isoquinoline via the Ugi and Heck Reactions. Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 3155. PubMed

• Kozmin, S.A., Cui, J., Haselkorn, R., Gornicki, P., Ulanovskaya, O., Kron, S. Methods for Assembling High-Purity Chemical Libraries, Compounds Suppressing Acetyl Coenzyme A Carboxylase Activities Discovered by Same. United States Patent Application 20100035892
• Xiang, Z., Cui, J., Chen, J. and Yang, Z. "Combinatorial Chemistry and Diversity-Oriented Synthesis" in Progress in Modern Organic Synthetic Chemistry. Ed. Yulin Wu, Shengming Ma, and Lixin Dai. Chemical Industry Press, Beijing, 2005. (Book Chapter in Chinese)

• Poster, Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on High-Throughput Chemistry and Chemical Biology, June 2011, New London, NH
  "High-throughput synthesis to enable discovery of new modulators of cellular energy metabolism" (Poster Competition Award Recipient for GRS)
• Poster, CMLD Annual Program Meeting, August 2010, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
  “Design and synthesis of a scaffold-unbiased small-molecule library”
• Oral, American Chemical Society 237th Annual Meetings, March 2009, Salt Lake City, UT
  “Practical assembly of high-purity small-molecule libraries enables the discovery of a new antiproliferative chemotype.”
• Poster, LabAutomation 2009, January 2009, Palm Springs, CA
  “Practical assembly of high-purity chemical libraries”
• Poster, CMLD Annual Program Meeting, October 2008, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

• 2011 Poster Competition Award Recipient, Gordon Research Seminar
• 2011 Co-Discussion Leader for Gordon Research Seminar: High-Throughput Chemistry and Chemical Biology
• 2009 Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, The University of Chicago
• 2008 Graduate Student Travel Award, Division of Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society
• 2004 Outstanding College Graduate, Peking University
• 2004 Outstanding College Graduate, City of Beijing
• 2004 Tung OOCL Scholarship, Peking University
• 2003 Wusi Scholarship, Peking University