Dr. Yinjie Tang has expertise in environmental microbiology, kinetic modeling, and metabolic flux analysis. He did his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington (with Dr. Barbara Krieger-Brockett). During his postdoctoral period (2004~2008), he worked on genomics projects at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (with Dr. Jay Keasling). He started his lab at Washington University in 2008, where his research focuses on characterizing and engineering nonmodel microorganisms for bio-manufacturing and bioremediation.