Lunchtime seminar 21 March 2019
UCL Biochemical Engineering lunchtime seminar. Combination of multiple antigens are essential for the development of a novel vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus infection
Dr. Jian-Dong Huang
School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Prof. Huang earned his BS degree from Fudan University, Shanghai in 1988 and went to the US through the CUSBEA program to pursue his PhD study in transcriptional regulation during fruit fly embryonic pattern formation. He earned his PhD degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994. Thereafter, Prof. Huang received his postdoctoral training in mouse genetics at National Cancer Institute, NIH in the USA from 1994-1998. During this period, Prof. Huang was the first to report that the two major intracellular transportation systems of mammalian cells, the microtubule- and actin-filament-based system directly interact with each other through their motor proteins, kinesin and myosin. He established his own laboratory at the University of Hong Kong in October 1998. Prof. Huang is now a professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences, the University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Huang focused his research work on the studies of a highly efficient DNA engineering technology, recombineering. He has provided experimental evidence revealing the mechanism of recombineering and improved its efficiency in both E. coli and mammalian cells. He has applied this technique to genomic studies and developed more efficient methods in DNA and chromosome engineering. Since 2008, he began to pursue synthetic biology studies focus on vaccine development and cancer therapy.