Speaker

Hongzhi Tang

Time

2025.05.07 16:00-17:30

Abstract

As the economy has developed rapidly, environmental problems caused by refractory pollutants are becoming increasingly evident; indeed, these are major pressing challenges facing China, and these must be solved. Microorganism is an important driver for toxicant degradation, and basic breakthroughs about microbial degradation mechanisms are of great significance. Dr. Tang’s group break through the limitation of natural evolution, as it aims squarely to generate microbes able to degrade pollutants including high ring aromatic hydrocarbons and dioxins. In addition, the development of a responsive, self-limited, high efficiency intelligent artificial degradation system that can be employed with genetic resources identified from myriad environmental sources had been studied.

Bio

Dr. Tang is the vice dean and tenured professor of School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology in Shanghai Jiaotong University. He is the chief scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program. He has been awarded the National Natural Science Foundation of China's "Outstanding Youth Fund", Shanghai's "Outstanding Academic Leader", Shanghai's "Rising Star", and Shanghai's "Young Science and Technology Pioneer". He has published over 70 papers as the first or corresponding author in important journals, such as Nature, Nat. Commun., Cell Discov., The Innovation, mBio, etc.