Wanwipa Vongsangnak, PhD Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Phone: +46(0)31 772 3847 Fax: +46(0)31 772 3801 E-mail: wanwipa [at] chalmers.se Office: Room 3057A     Education and degrees 2004 B.Sc. in Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand 2006 M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, School of Bioresources and Technology and School of Information Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand 2009 Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Chalmers University of technology, Sweden Employments 2005-2006 Research Assistant, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2006-2008 PhD student, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2008- PhD student, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers Publications, Patents & Presentations Publications 2004 Vongsangnak. W., Gua, J., Chauvatcharin, S., and Zhong. J.J.: Towards efficient extraction of notoginseng saponins from cultured cells of Panax notoginseng. Biochemical Engineering Journal 2004, 18:115–120 2008 Vongsangnak. W., Olsen. P., Hansen. H., Krogsgaard. S., Nielsen. J:  Improved annotation through genome-scale metabolic modeling of Aspergillus oryzae. BMC Genomics 2008, 9.   Andersen. M., Vongsangnak. W., Panagiotou. G., Margarita. S., Lehmann. L., Nielsen. J: A tri-species Aspergillus microarray - advancing comparative transcriptomics. PNAS2008, 105:4387-4392 Talks 2006 Vongsangnak. W. Transferring Bioinformatics and Technology to Thailand. Transferring Science and Technology to Thailand, Brussel, Belgium 2007 Vongsangnak. W., Nielsen, J. Annotation and metabolic modelling, Bio-functions, Bremen, Germany 2008 Vongsangnak. W., Olsen. P., Krogsgaard. S., Nielsen. J. Beyond genome annotation: Building efficient cell factory for Aspergillus oryzae. Eurofung, Edinburg, Scotland   Vongsangnak. W. Beyond genome annotation: Building efficient cell factory for Aspergillus oryzae. Systems Biology: From model organisms to applications (Nordforsk), Copenhagen, Denmark   Vongsangnak. W. Building efficient cell factory for Aspergillus oryzae. Scientific seminar, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden   Salazar M., Vongsangnak. W, Nielsen J. Uncovering transcriptional regulation of glycerol metabolism in aspergilli through genome-wide gene expression data analysis. Fungal Biology and Biotechnology in the Genomic Era, Barcelona, Spain   Vongsangnak. W. Integration of omics data, SYSINBIO, Kick off meeting of EU FP7 coordination action, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden Poster Presentations 2006 Vongsangnak. W., Olsen. P., Krogsgaard. S., Nielsen. J. Genome annotation and metabolic network construction of Aspergillus oryzae. The Seventh International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), Yokohama, Japan 2007 Vongsangnak. W., Olsen. P., Krogsgaard. S., Nielsen. J. Bioinformatics based annotation and metabolic model of Aspergillus oryzae. Eurofung, Wageningen, Netherlands 2007 Vongsangnak. W., Olsen. P., Krogsgaard. S., Nielsen. J. Annotation and validation through genome-scale metabolic model of Aspergillus oryzae. 3rd European Federation of Biotechnology, Conference Physiology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi PYFF3, Helsinki, Finland 2008 Vongsangnak. W., Olsen. P., Krogsgaard. S., Nielsen. J. Beyond genome annotation: Building efficient cell factory for Aspergillus oryzae. Arperfest and ECFG9, Edinburg, Scotland   Vongsangnak. W., Olsen. P., Hansen, K., Krogsgaard. S., Nielsen, J. Constructing Aspergillus oryzae as an efficient cell factory for protein production. Systems Biology (ICSB), Göteborg, Sweden   Vongsangnak. W., Olsen. P., Hansen, K., Krogsgaard. S., Nielsen, J. Building Apergillus oryzae as an efficient cell factory for protein production. Biotechnology for Sustainability of Human Society (IBS), Dalian, China 2009 Vongsangnak. W. and Nielsen, J. Bioinformatics and systems biology in Aspergillus cell factory. 9th Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop, Umeå, Sweden PhD Thesis 2009 SYSBIOMICS of Aspergilli: SYStems Biology, BIoinformatics and OMICS analysis of Aspergilli cell factories (ISBN 978-91-7385-330-9) Teaching and Tutoring Experience 2006 Microbiology and Fermentation Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2008 Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2008 Lecture course on Systems Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 2008 Data acquisition and handling for systems biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Grants, Awards and Prizes 2000 Student Scholarship in Universal Cultural Exchange Program, New Zealand 2002 Student scholarship in Biological Engineering Program,  East China University of Science and Technology, China 2003-2005 Full Scholarship in Bioinformatics Program, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand 2006-2008 Full Scholarship in Biotechnology Program, Technical University of Denmark and Novozymes Bioprocess Academy, Denmark 2008-2009 Full Scholarship in BioScience Program, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Personal text I was born in Thailand. Bangkok is my hometown.  Before I arrived to Nielsen’s Lab for Systems Biology at Chalmers, Sweden, I chose to come to Biocentrum-DTU to get start my PhD with Prof. Jens Nielsen. Of course, the key deciding factor for me was my good communications with Prof. Jens. I felt impression from the beginning in a strong knowledge and leadership of him. Our proposal was approved and on March 1, 2006, I was officially registered as a PhD student with the Center for Microbial biotechnology of BioCentrum-DTU. After two and a half years, I moved to Chalmers University of Technology. Nowadays, my research work is the development of systems biology and bioinformatics methods aiming at the construction of a genome-scale metabolic model of Aspergillus oryzae and further integrating this model with transcription data from industrial fermentations for diagnosis of enzyme production. Until now, I would say that I have no doubt I have made the right decision to come to Chalmers. I never disappointed about working with Nielsen’s Lab for Systems Biology. I never felt lonely to be in this group. Chalmers presented an excellent environment, and most importantly, it had a very good infrastructure and life science. Living in Sweden for me has also been an adventure and just get started. I thought that everyone agrees with me as well.