Thuy Dang

Dr. Thu-Thuy Dang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at UBC Okanagan. She received her PhD at the University of Calgary and Postdoctoral Fellowship at John Innes Centre, UK.  Her work aims to decode the genomic and biochemical features that contribute to the vast diversity of plants’ specialized metabolism. Immediate focus is on the medicinal alkaloids, of which many constitute the essential ingredients of traditional medicine worldwide. Her research utilizes available, and/or generates new, RNA-seq and genome data of medicinal plants to investigate their metabolism with a suite of analytical, biochemical, bioinformatic and molecular genetic approaches.

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