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Shen-Long Tsai Associate Professor

 

Email address: stsai@mail.ntust.edu.tw

Education:

Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, 2011.

Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, 2003

B.S. in Environmental Engineering, Da-Yeh University, 2001

Professional Experience and Honors: 

2011~2012 Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, USA.

2011 Visiting Researcher, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, USA.

2006~2010 Research Assistant, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, USA.

2006~2007 Teaching Assistant, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, USA.

Honorary member, Phi Tao Phi Scholastic Honor Society, Taiwan

2010Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, USA.

2009Best Presentation Award in 2009 Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at University of California, Riverside, USA

2007-2009 Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Riverside USA

2005 Honorable citation for outstanding achievement, Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan.

2002 Tasco Chemical Corp Fellowship, Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.

1997-2001 Presidential Fellowship, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan.

Research areas

With the rapid industrialization and urbanization, our life is getting more and more convenient than ever. However, challenges associated with this rapid growth of modernization have gradually appeared, such as environmental pollutions, energy crises and recalcitrant diseases. Research efforts in our laboratory are focused on the development and application of new approaches and biomolecular tools that are driven by the principles underlying Mother Nature to address those challenges. Current research topics are summarized below.

  1. Bioinspired engineering for the regulation of protein or enzyme synthesis
  2. Protein modules toward the recovery of precious metal ions from wastewater streams.
  3. Synthetic biology for creating smart microbes that can seek and destroy environmental pollutants.
  4. Next generation biosensors for environmental monitoring and clinical diagnostics.
  5. High-throughput methods for antimicrobial peptide screening.

Selected publications

  1. Chi-Wen Lin, Chih-Hung Wu, Yu-Hsuan Chiu, Shen-Long Tsai*, Effects of different mediators on electricity generation and microbial structure of a toluene powered microbial fuel cell. Fuel, 2014, 125, 30-35.
  2. Rebecca Chen, Qi Chen, Heejae Kim, Ka-Hei Siu, Qing Sun, Shen-Long Tsai and Wilfred Chen*, Biomolecular Scaffolds for Enhanced Signaling and Catalytic Efficiency. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2014. 28, 59-68. (Equal contribution).
  3. Qing Sun, Bhawna Madan, Shen-Long Tsai, Matthew P. DeLisa, Wilfred Chen*. Creation of artificial cellulosomes on DNA scaffolds by zinc finger protein-guided assembly for efficient cellulose hydrolysis. Chemical Communications, 2014. 50, 1423-1425.
  4. Shih, TY ; Tsai, SL*,"Simultaneous silver recovery and bactericidal bionanocomposite formation via engineered biomolecules",RSC ADVANCES(2014),4,77,40994-40998.
  5. Yunus, IS ; Tsai, SL*,"Designed biomolecule-cellulose complexes for palladium recovery and detoxification",RSC ADVANCES(2015),5,26,20276-20282.
  6. Agustin, YE ; Tsai, SL*,"A high-throughput and selective method for the measurement of surface areas of silver nanoparticles",ANALYST(2015),140,8,2618-2622.
  7. Leng, SH ; Yang, CE; Tsai, SL*,"Designer oleosomes as efficient biocatalysts for enhanced degradation of organophosphate nerve agents",CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL(2016),287,568-574.
  8. Su, FH ; Tabanag, IDF ; Wu, CY ; Tsai, SL*,"Decorating outer membrane vesicles with organophosphorus hydrolase and cellulose binding domain for organophosphate pesticide degradation",CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL(2017),308,1-7.
 
Last update: 2017.07.28
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