Director
Chemical Engineering Graduate Program
Syracuse University
United States of America
Dacheng Ren,is a Director in Department of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering, New York United States. His main mission is Understanding and controlling microbial biofilms to promote basic science and knowledge-based technology development in the fields of disease control, bioremediation and sustainability.
We have broad interests in Biotechnology, especially bacterial control. Historically, our understanding of bacterial physiology and development of antibiotics have been focused on planktonic (free-swimming) cells. However, the vast majority of bacteria in nature exist in surface-attached highly hydrated structures comprising of a polysaccharide matrix secreted by the bound bacterial cells, collectively known as biofilms.