Research

Sustainability is one of the most significant challenge of this century. Petroleum has been the primary source of energy and material that supports our society in the past century. However, petroleum reserves are limited and depleting. As such, we need to invest in new technologies which would allow us to utilize renewable biological feedstock for fuel and chemical production. Here in our lab, we are interested in addressing the issue of sustainability by metabolic engineering microbes to produce a variety of fuels and chemicals that are important to our society. We engineer these microbes by constructing synthetic metabolic pathways and modifying regulations of their native pathways to achieve higher productivity of desirable compounds.