Prof. Yi Tang (CV)

B.S. Penn State, 1997, Chemical Engineering, Material Science and Engineering

Ph.D. Caltech, 2002, Chemical Engineering

Postdoc, Stanford, 2004

Postdoctoral Fellow:

Dr. Yit Heng Chooi, Natural Products from Filamentous Fungi

Dr. Jaclyn Winter, Fungal Natural Products

Ph.D. Students:

Kangjian Qiao (Tianjin University, CBE, 2007) Resorcylic Acid Lactones

Anuradha Biswas (UIUC, CBE, 2008) Nanobiotechnology

Wei Xu (Nanjing University, CBE, 2008) PKS-NRPS megasynthetases

Ryan Peng Wang (Shanghai JiaoTong University, CBE 2009) Aromatic Polyketides

Sherry Xue Gao (Tianjin University, CBE 2009) Biocatalysis/Fungal Genetics

Muxun Zhao (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, CBE 2009) Protein Delivery

Angelica Zabala (UC San Diego, CBE 2009) New Heterologous hosts for fungal megasynthases

Ralph Cacho (UCLA, CBE 2010) Natural products from fungi

Jingjing Wang (UCLA, CBE 2010) Hybrid fungal natural products

Visiting Scientists:

Prof. Yingtong Di (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Genome mining of filamentous fungi

Prof. Liangyu Zheng (Jilin University) Biocatalysis

Xiaorui Pan (Tianjin University) Bioengineering

Undergraduate Students

Katherine Wu (Senior, CBE)

Renee Hsieh (Junior, CBE)

Mariel Lising (Senior, CBE)

John Mac (Senior, CBE)

Aline Aghakhani (Senior, CBE)

Linda Vien (Senior, CBE)

Alumni – Postdoc

Jixun Zhan (2006-2007), Assistant Professor, Utah State University

Woncheol Kim (2008-2010), Postdoc at Joint BioEnergy Institute

Li Li (2010-2011), Fudan Normal University.

Alumni – Graduate Students

Wenjun Zhang (Ph.D, 2009), Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley.

Suzanne Ma (Ph.D. 2009), Research Scientist, Amyris

Xinkai Xie (Ph.D., 2010), Research Scientist, Codexis

Gu Zhen (Ph.D., 2010), Postdoc, MIT (Prof. Robert Langer) link

Lauren Pickens (Ph.D., 2011) Research Scientist, Amyris.

Hui Zhou (Ph. D., 2011) Postdoc, MIT (Prof. Chris Voigt)

Yanran Li (Ph. D. 2012) Postdoc, Caltech

Alumni – Undergraduate, Masters and Visiting Students

Aya Westbrook (BS) Graduate student, UCLA Graduate School

Jake Ceccarelli (BS) Graduate student, UC Irvine

Ashley Allen (BS) Graduate student, Georgia Institute of Technology

Hung Chau (BS)

Teng Liu (BS) Bayer Inc.

Sean Gallagher (BS) Avon

Joshua Ferreira (BS) Graduate student, Stanford Chemical Engineering

Victor Mai (BS) Tufts Dental School

Todd Ambo (BS) 3M

Arthur Wojcicki (MS 2006)

Andre Maranhao (BS 2010) Graduate Student, UT Austin Biochemistry

Chris Dong (BS)

Jennifer Guerrero (BS 2010) Graduate student, UCSB Chemical Engineering

Leo Chen (MS 2011) LS9

Huma Rasool (BS, 2011)

Ian McRae (BS)

Qian Liu (visiting Ph.D. student from Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2011)

Group Pictures:

2011: PT Birthday

2011: Marina Del Ray

2010: Honda Ya

2010: Marina Del Ray

2009: WJ and Suzanne going away party

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