JOSEPH K.H. TANG
Assistant Professor, Carlson School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
S331 and S332 (Lab) and S226 (Office), Sackler Sciences Center
Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/chemistry/facultybio.cfm?id=869&progid=5&
Phone: 1-508-793-7536
E-mail: JTang@clarku.edu
Education
2002 Ph.D. Biochemistry (minor in Pharmacy), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
1992 M.S. Organic Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
1990 B.S. Chemistry and Biochemistry, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan
Position Held
2011 - Assistant Professor, Carlson School of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Clark University
2008 – 2011 Research Scientist, Department of Biology and Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis
2004 – 2008 Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Genomic Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
2003 – 2004 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Stanford University
1997 – 2003 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1990 – 1992 Graduate Research assistant, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Service to Profession
2011 - Research Affiliate: the Photosynthetic Research Antenna Center (an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)
2011 - Associated editorial board: International Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2011 - Reviewers Board: Journal of Pediatric Biochemistry
2009 - Proposal Review Panel: Center for Structural Molecular Biology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Neutron Science program
Research Grants, Honors and Awards
2010 Co-principal investigator, research grant from NASA Exobiology program
2005 – 2007 Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2006 – 2007 Research grants from the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) and National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan
2001 – 2002 Steenbock/Wharton Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses
Biochemistry I
Bio-analytical Chemistry
Protein Chemistry
Direct Study
Book Chapters
Tang, K.H. (2012) Functional genomics of anoxygenic green bacteria Chloroflexi species and evolution of photosynthesis. In: D Ekinci (ed.) Biochemistry, Chapter 15, InTech. 365-380.
Sattley, W.M., Asao, M., Tang, K.H. and Collins, A.M. (2013) Energy conservation in heliobacteria: Photo-synthesis and Central Carbon Metabolism. In: Hohmann-Marriott, M.F. (ed.) The Structural Basis of Biological Energy Generation. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration book series, Springer, Dordrecht. In press.
Tang, K.H. and Blankenship, R.E. (2013) Photosynthetic electron transport. In G.C.K. Roberts (ed. in chief), V. Davidson (volume ed.) Encyclopedia of Biophysics, Springer-Verlag. 1868-1873.