Cheemeng grew up in Malaysia and received his B.Eng. degree (first class honors) from National University of Singapore and his M.S. degree in High Performance Computing from Singapore-MIT Alliance. In 2005, he started his doctoral research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University., where he evolved into a hybrid computational and microbial biologist. His Ph.D. thesis focused on implications of bacterial growth on antibiotic treatment and synthetic gene circuits.
After his Ph.D., he worked in the Lane Center in Carnegie Mellon University as a Lane Fellow and Branco-Weiss Fellow. During this time, he established a multiscale method to study the impact of crowded cellular environment on gene expression. He published his research in journals such as Nature Chemical Biology, Molecular Systems Biology, and Nature Nanotechnology. He was awarded the Medtronic Fellowship, the Lane Fellowship, and the Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellowship.
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Contacts
Email: cmtan at ucdavis.edu
Office: 530-752-7849
Address: University of California Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
Professional Preparation
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering , 2010, Duke University
Master of Science in High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems, 2002, Singapore-MIT Alliance
Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honor), 2001, National University of Singapore
Appointments
Standing member, June 2024-2028, NIH CMT (Cellular and Molecular Technologies) study section
Editorial Board, 2024-now, Biomimetics
Editorial Board, Jan 2023-now, Academia Biology
Editorial Board, Oct 2022-now, Synthetic Biology and Engineering
Associate Editor, July 2022-now, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Associate Professor, July 2019-now, University of California – Davis, USA
Assistant Professor, Aug 2013-July 2019, University of California – Davis, USA
Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellow, 2012-now, USA
Lane Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2013, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Research Associate, 2002-2004, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
Research Intern, Jan 2002-June 2002, Temasek Laboratories, Singapore
Engineer Intern, Jan 2000-June 2000, Sinotech, Taiwan
Awards
NIGMS MIRA, 2021
UC Davis Chancellor Fellow, 2021
NIBIB Trailblazer Award, 2019
Young Innovator, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 2018
Scialog Fellow, 2018
Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellowship, 2012-2017
Lane Fellowship, Nov 2010 – Jul 2013
Medtronic Fellowship, Jan 2009 – June 2009
q-bio Conference Travel Award, 2009 & 2011
BioBricks Foundation SB 4.0 Travel Award, 2008
Singapore-MIT Alliance Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2002
Kuok Foundation Awards, 1997-2001