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 Summary:
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.
- Bioinspired engineering for the regulation of protein or enzyme synthesis
- Protein modules toward the recovery of precious metal ions from wastewater streams.
- Synthetic biology for creating smart microbes that can seek and destroy environmental pollutants.
- Next generation biosensors for environmental monitoring and clinical diagnostics.
- High-throughput methods for antimicrobial peptide screening.
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Recent Publications:
- Miso Park, Wilfred Chen, Shen-Long Tsai*, Live cell-based sensors: Microbial biosensor, Sensors, Submitted.
- Shen-Long Tsai, Chi-Wen Lin*, Chih-Hung Wu, and Chih-Min Shen, Kinetics of xenobiotic biodegradation for Pseudomonas sp. YATO411 strain in suspension and cell-immobilized beads, Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, In Press.
- Shen-Long Tsai, Fang Liu, Qing Sun, Heejea Kim, and Wilfred Chen*, Biologically assembled nanobiocatalysts, Topics in Catalysis, In Press. (equal contribution)
- Shen-Long Tsai, Nancy A DaSilva and Wilfred Chen*, Functional display of complex cellulosomes on the yeast surface via adaptive assembly, ACS Synthetic Biology, In Press.
- Shen-Long Tsai, Miso Park and Wilfred Chen*, Size-modulated synergy of cellulase clustering for enhanced cellulose hydrolysis, Biotechnology Journal, In Press.
- Shen-Long Tsai, Chi-Wen Lin*, and Chih-Hung Wu, Cell immobilization technique for biotrickle filtering of isopropyl alcohol waste vapor generated by high-technology industries, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, In Press.
- Fang Liu, Shen-Long Tsai, Bhawna Madan, and Wilfred Chen*, Engineering a high-affinity scaffold for the non-chromatographic protein purification via intein-mediated cleavage, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 109, 2829-2835, 2012.
- Shen-Long Tsai, Shailendra Singh, Nancy A DaSilva, and Wilfred Chen*, Co-expression of Arabidopsis thaliana phytochelatin synthase and Treponema denticola cystalysin leads to enhanced arsenic accumulation, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 109, 605-608, 2012.
- Garima Goyal, Shen-Long Tsai, Nancy A DaSilva, and Wilfred Chen*, Simultaneous cell growth and ethanol production from cellulose by an engineered yeast consortium displaying a functional mini-cellulosome, Microbial Cell Factories, 10: 89, 2011.
- Shen-Long Tsai, Garima Goyal, and Wilfred Chen*, Surface display of a functional mini-cellulosome by intracellular complementation using a synthetic yeast consortium: Application for cellulose hydrolysis and ethanol production, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76, 7514–7520, 2010.
- Shen-Long Tsai, Shailendra Singh, and Wilfred Chen*, Arsenic metabolism by microbes in nature and the impact on arsenic remediation, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 20, 659–667, 2009.
- Shen-Long Tsai, Jeongseok Oh, Shailendra Singh, Ruizhen Chen, and Wilfred Chen*, Functional assembly of mini-cellulosomes on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell surface for cellulose hydrolysis and ethanol production, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75, 6087-6093, 2009.
Last Update:2012/11/30
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