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Jean J. Huang, Ph.D.

Jean J. Huang

Associate Professor of Biology - On Leave Fall 2021

Milas Hall 266

On Leave

phone
781-292-2584
email
jean.huang@olin.edu

Education

Ph.D., Biology, California Institute of Technology
B.A., Biology, Wellesley College

Select Courses Taught

Biomimicry
Six Microbes that Changed the World
Microbial Diversity
Principles of Modern Biology
Sustainability Synthesis Capstone (Babson, Olin, Wellesley Collaboration)

Research

Microbial Diversity and Cultivation Photosynthetic bacteria
Microbial Ecology and Community Interactions

Biography

Dr. Jean Huang joins Olin from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Microbiology. She received a Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in Biology from Wellesley College. Dr. Huang has also studied the microbial world at the Marine Biological laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, first as a student and then as a teaching assistant for the Microbial Diversity Summer Course. Dr. Huang is recipient of a teaching award from Caltech, and she was a US EPA STAR predoctoral fellow. She has also been a faculty collaborator for the DOE-JGI Undergraduate Genome Annotation Program and a participant of the NSF/ASM Biology Scholars Program. Dr. Huang is enthusiastic about studying the diversity and physiology of photosynthetic bacteria and about applying bacterial metabolic capabilities towards solving environmental challenges.

Select Publications

Overney, C. E., & Huang, J. J. (2020) Genome Sequence of Bacillus megaterium O1, a Saponin-Degrading Bacterium. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 9(40).
Stella, N.A., Callaghan, J.D., Zhang, L., Brothers, K.M., Kowalski, R.P., Huang, J.J., Thibodeau, P.H., & Shanks, R.M. (2017) SlpE is a calcium-dependent cytotoxic metalloprotease associated with clinical isolates of Serratia marcescens. Research in Microbiology 168(6):567-574.
Zhu, M., McCully, L. M., Silby, M. W., Charles-Ogan, T. I., Huang, J.J., & Brigham, C. J. (2015) Draft Genome Sequence of Ralstonia sp. MD27, a Poly (3-Hydroxybutyrate)-Degrading Bacterium, Isolated from Compost. Genome A., 3(5), e01170-15.
Kernan, C., Chow, P. P., Christianson, R. J., & Huang, J.J (2015) Experimental and Computational Investigation of Biofilm Formation by Rhodopseudomonas palustris Growth under Two Metabolic Modes. PloS One 10(6), e0129354.
Huang, J.J., Heiniger, E, Mckinlay, J and C.S. Harwood. (2010) Production of hydrogen gas from light and the inorganic electron donor thiosulfate by Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76 (23): 7717-22.
Schaefer, A.L., Greenberg, E.P., Oliver, C.M., Oda, Y., Huang, J.J., Banin, G., Peres, C.M., Schmidt, S., Juhaszova, K., Sufrin, J. and Harwood, C.S. (2008) A new class of acyl-homoserine lactone quorum sensing signals. Nature. 454:595-9.