Dr Dang Diem Hong

About

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dang Diem Hong is Former Head of Algal Biotechnology Department, Institute of Biotechnology belonging to Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam. She is the foremost algal researcher in Viet Nam and has a truly international research outlook having worked in research labs all over the world including in Moscow, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Canada and the USA. Her research interests lay examining – Algal species: commercial potential, physiology and molecular biology; emerging technologies and bioreactors to scale up algal production and harvesting; exploitation of values and value-added algal biomass for human food and animal feed – Algal natural productions, functional food and pharmacology; new prospects in microalgae for food and feed; control of harmful and toxic microalgae to maintain food security; use of algal for environmental protection and microalgal for better environment; resources recycling and climate change mitigation; algae and biofuels and bio-oil; algaeomics (using genomics, proteomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics). She is currently involved in assessing oral vaccines for aquaculture animals using green microalga of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. She currently supervises 9 PhD students (4 successful defend) and 26 Master students (25 successful defend) and has published over 160 articles, conference papers, and books in both international and domestic journals. Since 2006 she is a staff member of the Asian Network for Using Algae as a CO2 sink and the Asian Pacific Phycological Association.She is a representative for Vietnam at APSAP (The Asia – Pacific Society for Applied Phycology) and APPF (The Asian Pacific Phycological Forum) term from 2017 to 2019.