Engineering Group, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University. Adjunct Professor of Sichuan University and others. Associate Directors of Shanghai Plant Physiology Association and Shanghai Agronomy Association. The expert committee member of Biotechnology Section and Bioreactor Special Program of China National “863” High-Tech Program during 2001-2005.

Dr. Tang got his Bachelor degree in Genetics from Sichuan University in 1985, his master degree in Plant Genetics and Breeding from Beijing Agricultural University in 1988, and his Ph.D degree in Plant Biotechnology from University of Nottingham, UK in 1996.

         The main research areas: 1) Plant Bioreactor; 2) Plant Metabolic Engineering; 3) Gene Cloning and Transgenic Plants.

         In recently years, Dr. Tang presides over 10 research projects including China National “863” High-Tech Project, China Transgenic Plant Research and Commercialization Project, Sino-UK Science and Technology Collaboration Fund to work on plant bioreactor, plant metabolic engineering, gene cloning and transgenic plants. He has published 200 papers in domestic and international scientific journals including 140 SCI papers such as PNAS, PLANTA, TRANSGENIC RESEARCH, CELL RESEARCH, PLANT SCIENCE, BIOINFORMATICS, MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY and JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. He has over 60 patents applied or granted by China.

 

Selected publications:

1         Zhang, L., Ding, R., Chai, Y., Bonfill, M., Moyano, E., Oksman-Caldentey, K-M., Xu, T., Pi, Y., Wang, Z., Zhang, H., Kai, G., Liao, Z., Sun, X., and Tang, K. (2004). Engineering tropane biosynthetic pathway in Hyoscyamus niger hairy root cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101(17): 6786-6791.

2         Zhang, L., Yuan, D., Yu, S., Li, Z., Cao, Y., Miao, Z., Qian, H. and Tang, K. (2004). Preference of simple sequence repeats in coding and non-coding regions of Arabidopsis thaliana. Bioinformatics 20(7): 1081-1086.

3         Li, Z., Zhao, L., Kai, G., Yu, S., Cao, Y., Pang, Y., Sun, X. and Tang K. (2004). Cloning and expression analysis of a water stress-induced gene from Brassica olecalea. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 42(10): 789-794.

4         Qin, J., Zhao, J., Zuo, K., Cao, Y., Ling, H., Sun, X. and Tang K. (2004). Isolation and characterization of an ERF-like gene from Gossypium barbadense. Plant Science 167(6): 1383-1389.

5         Yu, S. Zhang, L., Zuo, K., Li, Z. and Tang, K. (2004). Isolation and characterization of a BURP domain-containing gene BnBDC1 from Brassica napus involved in abiotic and biotic stress. Physiologia Plantarum 122: 210-218.

6         Tang, D., Qian, H., Yu, S., Cao, Y., Liao, Z., Zhao, L., Sun, X., Huang, D. and Tang, K. (2004). cDNA cloning and characterization of a new stress-responsive gene BoRS1 from Brassica oleracea var. acephala. Physiologia Plantarum 121: 578-585.

7         Kai, G., Miao, Z., Qiu, C., Zhang, L., Zhao, L., Li, Z., Xu, T., Zhang, L., Gong, Y., Zhao, D., Liu, D., Sun, F. and Tang, K. (2004). Molecular cloning and characterization of a taxadienol acetyl transferase cDNA from Taxus x media. Plant Science 167(4): 759-764.

8         Xu, T., Zhang, L., Sun, X., Zhang, H. and Tang, K. (2004). Production and analysis of organic acids in hairy root cultures of Isatis indigotica Fort. Biotechnology & Applied Biochemistry 39(1): 123-128.

9         Wang, Y., Guo, B., Miao, Z. and Tang K. (2007). Transformation of Taxol-producing endophytic fungi by restriction enzyme-mediated integration (REMI). FEMS Microbiology Letters 273: 253-259.

10     Zhang, H., Zhao, L., Chen, Y., Cui, L., Ren, W. and Tang K. (2007). Expression of human coagulation factor IX in transgenic tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Biotechnology & Applied Biochemistry 48:101-107.