Algal Biotechnology

Qiang Wang is professor of the State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University. He obtained his PhD in the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in June 2002, and was honoured at the same time the "Lady Davis Trust Fellowship" of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), and worked later in the United States as a post-doctoral student and as a research associate in the University of Tennessee, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Michigan State University. His PhotoSynBio group is currently focusing on photosynthesis and synthetic biology with the model system of Synechocystis PCC6803, microalgal biofuel and its application in environmental issues. During the past 10 years, they have had more than 50 corresponding research articles published on leading journals such as Cell, Nat Commun, Bio Rev and EST etc, with 12 granted patents, and had been nominated twice for ENI award. Currently Wang is serving as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Energy Research and Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports.

• Part I: Synthetic Biology and Toolkits 1: Engineering microalgae: transition from empirical design to programmable cells 2: Application and mechanism analysis of photosynthetic microbial coculture systems for bioproduction 3: Genome editing in diatoms: current progress and challenges 4: Euglena-based Synthetic Biology and Cell Factory 5: Visualizing native supramolecular architectures of photosynthetic membranes in cyanobacteria and red algae using atomic force microscopy Part II: Algae Culture and Natural Products 6: Heterotrophic high-cell-density cultivation for effective production of microalgae biomass and metabolites of commercial interest 7: Metabolites of microalgae 8: Green extraction of bioactive compounds from microalgae by ionic liquids 9: Metabolomics analysis of algae: current status and future perspective 10: The need for taxonomic revision of Phormidium treleasei Gomont and its potential use in Biotechnology Part III: Algae-based Bioremediation 11: Algae based aquaculture wastewater treatment and resource utilization 12: The Role of Microalgae in the Mitigation of the Impact of Chemical Pollution in Freshwater Habitat 13: Microalgae-based bioremediation of heavy metals and emerging contaminants 14: Construction of microalgal chloroplast organelle factory for the carbon neutralized future