- Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biological & Agricultural Engineering
- Director, Synthetic and Systems Biology Innovation Hub
- Phone: 979-845-3016
- Email: syuan@tamu.edu
- Office: Borlaug 139A
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Plants, Insects, and Soils with Focus on Functional Genomics, University of Tennessee - 2007
- M.S., Plant Sciences, University of Arizona - 2001
- B.S., Biology, Fudan University - 1997
Research Interests
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- Design-based engineering to address the challenges in energy, environment and health.
- Chemical, computational and systems biology analyses
- Design of enzymes, processes, microorganisms, and plant for various applications.
- Increasing biorefinery waste utilization,
- Enhancing photosynthetic terpene production
- Improving enzymes based on structure dynamics