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Thu-Thuy Dang
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry
Office: FIP 354Phone: 250.807.9468
Email: thuy.dang@ubc.ca
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
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.
Selected Publications & Presentations