People

Principal Investigator

James C. Liao
Chancellor's Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles


Education

  • B.S. National Taiwan University
  • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Awards and Recognition

  • National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1992
  • Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2002
  • W.N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2006
  • FPBE Division Award of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2006
  • Merck Award for Metabolic Engineering, 2006
  • Charles Thom Award, Society for Industrial Microbiology, 2008.
  • Marvin J. Johnson Award, Biochemical Technology Division, American Chemical Society, 2009
  • Alpha Chi Sigma Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2009
  • James E. Bailey Award, Society for Biological Engineering, 2009
  • Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 2010

 

Lab Members (Present and Previous)

Postdoctoral Researchers (Current):

  • Elizabeth Felnagle (PhD Microbiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison) 2010-present
  • Hao Luo (PhD University of Otago, New Zealand), 2010-present
  • Luisa Gronenberg(PhD Chemistry, Harvard University) 2010-present
  • Ryan Marcheschi (PhD Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison) 2010-present
  • Samuel Mainguet (PhD Biology, University Paris-Sud 11), 2010-present
  • Yixin Huo (PhD Molecular Microbiology and Virology, Peking University & Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot) 2008-Present
  • Tony Wu (PhD Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwa), 2010-present
  • Hidevaldo Machado,2011-present
  • Iara Machado, 2009-present

Graduate Students (current):

  • Yikun Tan (BS, UC Berkeley)
  • Claire R. Shen (BS, UCLA)
  • Ethan Lan (BS, University of Maryland, College Park)
  • Jimmy G Lafontaine Rivera (BS, RPI)
  • Candy Sio Si Wong (BS, National Taiwan University)
  • Fabienne Duchoud (BS, EPFL, Switzerland)
  • Xiaoqian Li (BS, Tiangin University, China)
  • Han Li (BS, Tsing Hua Unversity, China)
  • Paul Opgenorth (BS, UC Davis)
  • Paul Po-hen Lin (BS, National Taiwan University)
  • Igor Bogorad (BS, UCLA)
  • David Wernick (BS, UCLA)
  • Jeni Takasumi (BS, University of Southern California)

Graduate Students (Former):

  • Kevin Smith (BS, Iowa State)
  • Matthew Rizk (BS, Cornell)
  • Mike Connor (BS, UCLA)
  • Anthony Cann (BS, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology)
  • Jason Dean (BS, Georgia Tech)
  • Mark Brynildsen (BS, Rutgers)
  • Katherine Chou (BS, UCLA)
  • Linh M. Tran (BS, UCLA)
  • Simon Galbraith (BS, Univ. of Durham, UK)
  • Jeffrey Bernstein (BS, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, PhD CLA 2007)
  • Wilson W. Wong (BS, UC Berkeley, PhD, UCLA 2007)
  • Eileen Fung (BS, UC San Diego, PhD, UCLA 2007)
  • Laura Jarboe (BS, Univ. Kentucky, PhD, UCLA 2006)
  • Daniel Hyduke (BS, Michigan State, PhD, UCLA 2006)
  • Katy C. Kao (BS, UC Irvine, PhD, UCLA 2005)
  • Lars Rohlin (BS, Tri-State University, PhD, UCLA 2004)
  • Tae H. Han (BS, Univ. Washington, Seattle, PhD, UCLA 2003)
  • Min-kyu Oh (BS, Seoul National University, Korea, PhD, UCLA 2002)
  • Chia-Wei Wang (BS, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, PhD, UCLA 2001)
  • Ray Farmer (BS, Texas A&M University, PhD, UCLA 2001)
  • Kuang-Tse Huang (BS, National Taiwan University, PhD, Texas A&M, 1998)
  • Shao-Yi Ho (BS, National Taiwan University, PhD, Texas A&M, 1998)
  • Yun-Peng Chao (BS, Chung-Yuan University, Taiwan, PhD, Texas A&M, 1995)
  • Ranjan Patnaik (BS, Indian Institute of Technology, PhD, Texas A&M, 1995)
  • Su-chin Wu (BS, National Tsing-hua University, PhD, Texas A&M, 1994)
  • Javier Delgado (BS, Catholic University of Chile, PhD, Texas A&M, 1994)

Visiting Professors (former)

  • Antonino Baez
  • Wendy Higashide (PhD Microbiology, Purdue University), 2007-2011, Current: Reserach Scientist, Easel Biotechnologies.
  • Yajun Yang (PhD Chemical Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo), 2008-2010, Current: Assistant Professor, University of Georgia.
  • Kechun Zhang (PhD Chemistry, California Institute of Technology), 2007-2010,Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota.
  • Shota Atsumi (PhD Biochemistry, Kyoto University, Japan), 2006- 2009, Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis.
  • Raj Pai (PhD Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley) 2008-2009
  • Ganesh Sriram (PhD Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University), 2004-2007, Current: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Thomas Bulter (PhD Chemistry, University of Duesseldorf, Germany), 2003-2006,Current: Team Leader, Biocatalyst Development, Gevo Inc. Pasadena, CA
  • Jason Suen (PhD Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2004-2006
  • Young-Lyeol Yang (PhD Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea) 2002-2005, Current: CJ Coorporation, Korea
  • Sungu Lee (PhD Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea), 2001-2003, Current: Associate Professor, Pusan National University, Korea
  • Mark W. Vaughn (PhD Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University), 1997-2000, Current: Associate Professor, Texas Tech University.

Visiting Professors (Former)

  • Hsuen-Chen Huang [hchuang@mac.com], National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan (2007-2008)
  • Hsueh-Fen Juan [yukijuan@ntu.edu.tw], National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2007-2008)
  • Taizo Hanai, Kyushu University, Japan (2006-2008)
  • Jinn-moon Yang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2006)
  • Shi-Shang Jang, National Tsing Hua University, Tawan (2005)