Thu-Thuy Dang

Thu-Thuy Dang is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, affiliated with the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, and the Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystems Services (BRAES). She holds the Principal's Research Chair in Natural Products Biotechnology (Tier 2).

• Research Focus: Discovering biosynthetic enzymes and pathways, generating specialized metabolite diversity, and reconstituting natural product metabolism in synthetic biology chassis.
• Teaching: Biochemistry courses.

Education:

• Postdoctoral Research – John Innes Centre, UK
• PhD – University of Calgary
• MSc – University of Calgary
• BSc – Viet Nam National University

Selected Research Areas: Medicinal alkaloids, transcriptome/genome analysis of medicinal plants, analytical and molecular genetic approaches for metabolic studies, biotechnologies for sustainable production of plant compounds.

Scientific Awards:

• Principal's Research Chair in Natural Products Biotechnology (Tier 2)

Laboratory: Plant BioCoRe Laboratory.