Prof. Cheemeng Tan CV

Associate Prof., Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis, 2019
Assistant Prof., Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis, 2013
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Duke, 2010
MS, High Performance Computing, Singapore-MIT Alliance 2002
BS, Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2001

Recent Honors and Awards

2019 NIBIB Trailblazer Award
2018 Young Innovator, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
2018 Scialog Fellow
2015 Young Investigator Grant, Human Frontier Science Program
2012 Branco-Weiss Fellow, Society-in-Science ETH
2010 Lane Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lane Center, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Ting Gong CV

Synthetic biology and molecular biotechnology
Ting received her bachelor of biotechnology degree from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. In her junior year of college, Ting joined Prof. Cunjiang Song lab, studying bioremediation of persistent organic pollutants and biosynthesis of value-added products. After she received a Ph.D. degree from Nankai University, Ting became a postdoc researcher in Prof. Thomas Wood lab at Penn State to study biofilm and souring control in energy fields via microbial quorum sensing regulation. In Prof. Tan lab, she is interested in leveraging synthetic biology to study the interaction between genetic regulatory networks and environment, as well as the temporal dynamics of biofilm.

Dr. Jiyoung Shim CV

Synthetic biology and molecular biotechnology
Ji-Young earned her B.E. and M.E. degree in chemical engineering from Seoul National University of Technology. She started her Ph.D. study at Illinois Institute of Technology and joined Prof. Wasan Lab studying oscillatory structural force to remove attached bacteria using a micellar nanofluid formulation. She then created a bio-sensing device to detect target DNAs using recombinant proteins as a postdoc in Prof. Kim lab at Western Kentucky University. In Prof. Tan lab, she is focusing on reconstituting cancer signaling pathways in vitro using droplet printing.

Daniel Lewis CV

Integrative Genetics and Genomics
Dan Lewis attended the University of California, Santa Barbara for his undergraduate degree in Pharmacology. During his time at UCSB, Dan joined the De Tomaso lab, studying the role of Wnt signaling in anterior-posterior axis formation during asexual reproduction in Botyrllus schlosseri. After graduating, he stayed on to become a technician in the De Tomaso Lab investigating allorecognition in Botryllus shlosseri mediated by the fusion histocompatibility complex. In the Tan lab, he is interested in modeling and constructing genetic regulatory networks to better understand the complex and dynamic processes that mediate cellular interaction with the environment.

Fan Wu CV

Biomedical Engineering
Fan started his undergraduate study in 2008 at Laney City College and transferred to UCLA in his junior year. At UCLA, he was attracted by biomedical engineering and joined Prof. Tatiana Segura Laboratory to study siRNA delivery. After he graduated from UCLA, he conducted one year of full time research in Prof. Song Li Laboratory at UC Berkeley to study the participation of stem cells in angiogenesis. His research experience solidified his willing to pursue a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at UC Davis. He is interested in understanding antibiotic tolerance and developing novel antibiotic treatment using synthetic biology approaches.

Luis Eduardo Contreras Llano CV

Biochemistry, molecular, cellular, and developmental biology
Luis obtained a B.E. from the Polytechnic University of Tlaxcala (Mexico) and an M.S from the University of las Americas, Puebla (Mexico). For his M.S, he conducted research at the University of Murcia (Spain) where he studied the molecular and kinetic characteristics of an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of plant pigments. His current research focuses on creating biomimetic systems, i.e. cell-free systems and artificial cells, for biotechnological applications.

Conary Meyer CV

Biomedical Engineering
Conary obtained his B.S. in Bioengineering from Santa Clara University. While there he pursued several different projects ranging from biofuel engineering to exosome drug delivery systems. Upon graduation he took a fulltime research position in Prof. Drew Endy’s lab at Stanford University. During his time there he developed a method to clone thousands of individual plasmids in high throughput as well as helped with efforts to construct cells from the bottom-up. This introduced him to cell-free expression systems which inspired him to pursue a PhD in Tan lab to develop more versatile and robust expression systems. His current focus is on modifying cell free systems to produce membrane proteins.

Chuqing Zhou CV

Chemical Engineering
Chuqing obtained her B.E. from Shandong University in China, and M.S. from UC San Diego, both majoring in Chemical Engineering. While in college, she was mentored by Prof. Ye Zhu to fabricate and characterize nanomaterial-based biosensors of Bisphenol A and cancer-related microRNAs detection. During her master study, she interned in R&D of Biolegend Inc. to investigate the fluidic transportation of antibody-modified magnetic nanoparticles. She then joined the R&D of Wondfo Biotech to develop a portable blood coagulation analyzer. Currently, she is developing automated microfluidic devices to generate vesicles in a high-throughput and controllable manner for genetic studies. (co-advised by Prof Pan)

Katelyn France CV

Biomedical Engineering

Hamad Linjawi CV

Biomedical Engineering

Surya Vishnubhatt CV

Biological Sciences

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