Affiliation: University of California, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department,

Dr. Shu Cai is currently a Postdoc working at University of California, Davis. Prior to that, he worked in the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences as an assistant researcher since Nov. 30, 2015. He acquired his PhD degree in microbiology at Nanjing Agricultural University in 2015 and a bachelor’s degree in microbiology at Nanjing Agricultural University in 2010. His research areas include biosynthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoate(PHA) using waste materials, biodegradation of organic pollutants and the underlying molecular mechanisms, carbon and nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems.