| Asst Prof Song Hao
Assistant Professor
Division of Bioengineering
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering
Email: SONGHAO@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6790 4485
Office: N1.3-B2-12 |
| Education |
- PhD (Chem Eng) The University of Houston 2004
- BS (Chem) Nankai University 1994
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| Biography |
Dr. Hao Song received his B.S. in Chemistry from Nankai University, and his Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Houston. Before joining in NTU on Nov. 2009, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas, and a research associate at Duke University. His research interests are on the synthetic biology, systems & computational biology, and bioreactors and process engineering, focusing on microbial production of chemicals (including commodity chemicals & materials, functional foods and drugs) and environmental biotechnology. He has published over 40 research papers and reviews in top academic journals, including Nature Chemical Biology, Molecular Systems Biology, ACS Chemical Biology, Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Biophysical Journal, and AIChE Journal, etc. Dr. Song is a member of American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Please see also: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/SONGHAO/ |
| Research Interests |
My research interests are on the synthetic biology & metabolic engineering, systems biology and bioreactors modeling and optimization, aiming at production of chemicals (including commodity chemicals/materials, drugs and functional foods) by engineered microorganisms, and environmental biotechnology. Specifically,
● Genetic engineering microbes and microbial ecosystems for bioelectrochemical systems;
● Electrofuels: Biological recycling of CO2 to biofuels by microbial electrosynthesis
● Genome-scale modeling and engineering gene circuits for metabolic pathway engineering;
● Systems and computational biology. |
| Research Grant |
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2011-) [by MOE]
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2012-) [by Ministry of Education (MOE)]
- Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (2012-) [by Ministry of Education (MOE)]
- Environment & Water Industry Development Council (2013-) [by Environment & Water Industry Development Council (EWI)]
- NTU Internal Funding – Nanyang Institute of Technology in Health & Medicine (NITHM) (2011-) [by Nanyang Institute of Technology in Health and Medicine (NITHM)]
- National Medical Research Council (2011-2014) [by National Medical Research Council (NMRC)]
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| Current Projects |
- A Novel Energy-Efficient Sewage Treatment Train for High-Quality Energy Recovery
- A Novel extractive membrane bioreactor for recalcitrant organics removal: integration of extractive thin film composite membrane and bioaugmentation
- Determinants of Blood Flow Destabilization in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
- Multi-Module On-chip Droplet Cytometry for High-throughput Analysis of Intercellular Dynamics
- Start-up grant (Song Hao)
- The role of non-adsorbing macromolecules in the increased adhesion of erthrocytes to the endothelial cells in diabetes mellitus and beta thalassemia
- Using synthetic biology methodologies to engineer microbe and microbial ecosystems for maximum bioelectricity generation in microbial fuel cells
| Selected Publications | - YC Yong, YY Yu, CM Li, JJ Zhong, H Song*. (2011). Bioelectricity enhancement via overexpression of quorum sensing system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa-inoculated microbial fuel cells. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 30(1), 87-92.
- YY Yu, HL Chen, YC Yong, DH Kim*, H Song*. (2011). Conductive Artificial Biofilm Dramatically Enhances Bioelectricity Production in Shewanella-Inoculated Microbial Fuel Cells. Chemical Communications, accepted.
- J Zhou, Q Ma, H Yi, L Wang, H Song, YJ Yuan*. (2011). Metabolome profiling reveals metabolic cooperation between Bacillus megaterium and Ketogulonigenium vulgare during induced swarm motility. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, in press.
- H Song*, S Payne, C Tan, L You. (2011). Programming microbial population dynamics by engineered cell-cell communication. Biotechnology Journal, 6(7), 837-49.
- H Song, S Payne, M Gray, L You. (2009). Spatiotemporal modulation of biodiversity in a synthetic chemical-mediated ecosystem. Nature Chemical Biology, 5, 929-935.
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