General

Associate Professor

Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Cell: (+86)-15223309406

Email: yang.tan@siat.ac.cn


Research Areas


Synthetic biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology

Education

2017.4-2018.4  Posdoc, Department of biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

2015.9-2017.4 Posdoc, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.

2014.4-2015.8 Posdoc, Environmental Biotechnology Centre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.

2010.8-2013.12 PhD, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, QingDao, China.

2007.9-2010.7 MS, Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, QingDao, China.

2001.9-2005 .7 BS, College of Agronomy and Life Science, Southwest University, ChongQing, China.





Experience

   
Work Experience

2018.6-Current    Associate Professor, Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences


Publications

   
Papers

Tan Y, Adhikari RY, Malvankar NS, Pi S, Ward JE,   Woodard TL, Nevin KP, Xia Q, Tuominen MT, Lovley DR. Expressing the Geobacter metallireducens PilA in Geobacter sulfurreducens yields pili with surprisingly high conductivity. mBio 17, 8(1) (2017).

Tan Y†,   Adhikari RY†, Malvankar NS, Pi S, Ward JE, Woodard   TL, Nevin KP, Xia Q, Tuominen MT, Lovley DR. Synthetic Biological Protein   Nanowires with High Conductivity. Small   12, 4481–4485 (2016). († co-author).

  

  


Research Interests

Microbiome engineering

1 Engineering the microbiome for living therapy.

2 Mining novel biosynthesis gene cluster from the microbiome.