Xuan Wang
Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
PO Box 874501
Tempe, AZ 85287-4501
Titles
- Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biography
Xuan Wang is a microbiologist who is interested in developing new microbial fermentation processes for the production of bio-based chemicals.
His lab combines genetics and metabolic engineering in a concerted effort to address two great challenges in the applied microbiology field. Those challenges include first, how to increase the efficiency of microbes to use sugars from renewable biomass; and second, how to expand cellular metabolisms to produce new ¿value-added¿ chemicals such as industrial bulk chemicals, nutrition supplements, pharmaceuticals and biological polymers.
Education
- PhD, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2008
- MS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2003
- BS, University of Science and Technology of China, 2000