Title: Professor
Address: School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University
Office Phone: +86-22-60977327
Email: hsong@tju.edu.cn
Education
B.S. in Chemistry, 1994, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 2004, The University of Houston, Texas, USA
Professional Experience
Professor [2013-now], School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, China
Assistant Professor [2009-2013], School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Associate [2006-2009], Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, NC, USA
Postdoctoral Researcher [2004-2006], Department of Neurobiology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
Research interests
Synthetic Biology and metabolic engineering — fundamentals and applications in biochemical/pharmaceutical industries:
(1) Environmental and energy biotechnology: microbial electrosynthesis, microbial/multi-enzymatic biofuel cells, and synthetic microbial consortia.
(2) Pharmaceuticals biosynthesis via genetically engineered cells, and multienzymatic cascades for asymmetric biocatalysis, and synthetic gene circuits.
Representative papers
Yun Yang, Yuanzhao Ding, Yidan Hu, Bin Cao, Scott A. Rice, Staffan Kjelleberg, Hao Song*. "Enhancing bidirectional electron transfer of Shewanella oneidensis by a synthetic flavin pathway", ACS Synthetic Biology (2015, in press)
Ting Liu, Yang-yang Yu, Xiao-peng Deng, Chun Kiat Ng, Bin Cao, Scott Rice, Staffan Kjelleberg, Hao Song*. "Enhanced Shewanella biofilm promotes bioelectricity generation", Biotechnology & Bioengineering (2015, in press).
Yidan Hu, Yun Yang, Evgeny Katz, Hao Song*. "Programming Quorum Sensing-based AND Gate in Shewanella oneidensis for logic gated-Microbial Fuel Cells”, Chemical Communications, 51, 4184-4187 (2015).
Hao Song, Ming-Zhu Ding, Xiao-Qiang Jia, Qian Ma, Ying-Jin Yuan*. "Synthetic microbial consortia: from systematic analysis to construction and applications", Chemical Society Reviews, 43, 6954-6981 (2014).
Yang-Chun Yong, Yang-Yang Yu, Xinhai Zhang, Hao Song*. “Highly Active Bidirectional Electron Transfer by a Self-Assembled Electroactive Reduced-Graphene-Oxide-Hybridized Biofilm", Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53, 4480-4483 (2014).
Y. Yong, Y. Yu, Y. Yang, J. Liu, J-Y Wang, H. Song*. "Enhancement of extracellular electron transfer and bioelectricity output by synthetic porin", Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 110 (2): 408-416 (2013).
Y. Yong, X. Dong, M.B. Chan-Park, H. Song*, P. Chen*. “Macroporous and monolithic anode based on polyaniline hybridized three-dimensional graphene for high-performance microbial fuel cells”, ACS Nano, 6 (3), 2394–2400 (2012).
J. Liu, Y. Yong, H. Song*, C.M. Li*. “Activation enhancement of citric acid cycle to promote bioelectrocatalytic activity of ArcA knockout Escherichia coli toward high-performance microbial fuel cell”, ACS Catalysis, 2, 1749-1752 (2012).
H. Song, S. Payne, M. Gray, L. You. “Spatiotemporal modulation of biodiversity in a synthetic chemical-mediated ecosystem”, Nature Chemical Biology, 5, 929–935 (2009).