报告题目：Expanding Metabolism for Sustainable Chemicals 

　　报 告 人：ZHANG Kechun   Assistant Professor　　 

　　( Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota )　　 

　　报告时间：7月10日（周四）14：00-16:00　　 

　　报告地点：海洋之神8590vip天津工业生物技术研究所 C408会议室　　 

　　报告摘要：Development of sustainable materials is essential for future growth of the chemical industry. He will describe how to integrate design principles, enzyme discovery, pathway optimization and bioprocess scale-up to biosynthesize carboxylic acids, esters, and branched lactones. This comprehensive strategy not only enables new chemical functions in living cells, but also provides renewable approaches to industrially relevant products for a broad range of applications. For example, they have developed a green route to poly-methyl methacrylate, and the first scalable family of mechanically tunable bioderived polyesters.　　

　　报告人简介 

　　Education background:　　  

　　B.S., Polymer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 2001　　 

　　Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 2007　　 

　　Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California--Los Angeles, 2007-2010　　 

　　Research Area: Biotechnology and Bioengineering