Experience

Bota Biosciences

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jun 2020 - 3 years 7 months

  Bota Bio Raises $100 Million Series B Financing to Advance Sustainable Biomanufacturing https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bota-bio-raises-100-million-series-b-financing-to-advance-sustainable-biomanufacturing-301343566.html BASF invests in biotechnology start-up Bota Bio https://www.basf.com/global/en/media/news-releases/2021/03/p-21-158.html C&EN’s 2021 10 Start-Ups to Watch https://cen.acs.org/business/start-ups/CENs-2021-10-Start-Ups-to-Watch-cleantech/99/i42



Amyris

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Scientist, Metabolic Engineering

  • Aug 2015 - May 2020

  • Project Lead of a high-valued nutraceutical molecule. • Biology Group Lead of a natural sweetener molecule. • Co-inventor of three patent applications.

• Biology Intern

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015



Michigan State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Assistant

  • Sep 2009 - Dec 2014

  • Discovered a transcription factor of triacylglycerol metabolism and its link with cell cycle control to uncouple the inverse relationship between biomass production and energy compound accumulation in microalgae – led to a first-author publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. • Developed protocols to isolate native protein complexes from lipid droplets and conducted native PAGE and LC-MS/MS-based proteomics to characterize the machinery for enzyme arrays to… Show more • Discovered a transcription factor of triacylglycerol metabolism and its link with cell cycle control to uncouple the inverse relationship between biomass production and energy compound accumulation in microalgae – led to a first-author publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. • Developed protocols to isolate native protein complexes from lipid droplets and conducted native PAGE and LC-MS/MS-based proteomics to characterize the machinery for enzyme arrays to assemble on lipid droplets – led to a first-author publication in The Plant Journal. • Collaborated with two bioinformatics groups to analyze transcriptomic datasets for metabolic engineering – led to a first-author publication in The Plant Physiology. • Co-developed a transformation protocol for industrial microalga Nannochloropsis oceanica and invented a high-throughput screen for high-oil strains – led to a publication in PLoS Genetics. Show less



Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University

• Lab Manager/Research Assistant

  • 2007 - 2009

  Taipei City, Taiwan • Studied the molecular biology of plant-microbe interaction – led to 5 publications (1 first-author). .• Helped the PI who did not speak Chinese establish a new lab in a Chinese-speaking environment.



Army in Coast Guard, Republic of China, Taiwan

• Second Lieutenant

  • 2005 - 2007

  Kinmen County, Taiwan Led a platoon of 100 soldiers in active duty to reduce smuggling and illegal immigration.