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Thu-Thuy Dang

Assistant Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES)

Other Titles: Principal's Research Chair in Natural Products Biotechnology (Tier 2) Office: SCI 207 Phone: 250.807.9468 Email: [email protected]

Graduate student supervisor

Research Summary

Discovering new biosynthetic enzymes and pathways; generating specialized metabolites structural and functional diversities; re-constituting natural products metabolism in synthetic biology chassis.

Courses & Teaching

Biochemistry

Websites

Plant BioCoRe Laboratory

Degrees

Post doctoral research, John Innes Centre, UK PhD, University of Calgary MSc, University of Calgary BSc, Viet Nam National University

Research Interests & Projects

My works aim to decode the genomic and biochemical features that contribute to the vast diversity of plants’ specialized metabolism.

Our immediate focus is on the medicinal alkaloids, of which many constitute the essential ingredients of traditional medicine worldwide. We utilize available, and/or generate new, RNA-seq and genome data of medicinal plants to investigate their metabolism with a suite of analytical, biochemical, bioinformatic and molecular genetic approaches.

Our long-term goal is to deliver biotechnologies that produce and/or customize high-value phytochemicals. These will allow sustainable alternatives complementing chemical extraction from plants or synthesis from petrochemicals.

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