Christopher Q. Lan, Ph.D. & Professor

161 Louis Pasteur St., Room A329

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5

Tel: (613) 562-5800 ext. 2050

Fax: (613) 562-5172

E-mail: Christopher.Lan@uottawa.ca

Current Research Interests

1. Membrane desiccant cooling and its applications (e.g., in personal cooling)

2. Supercritical fluid extraction

3. Membrane Technologies

a. Membrane distillation for seawater desalination

b. Nanofiltration

c. Membrane Bioreactor

4. Biotechnology and Bioprocesses

a. Microalgal Biotechnology

b. Novel Alternatives to Antibiotics

c. Recombinant protein expression

d. Fermentation process development, modeling and optimization

e. Protein purification

Selected Publications

(For a complete list of my peer reviewed articles, please refer to Google Scholar Citations – Christopher Q. Lan)

Parisien A., Dembélé S., Thibault J., Lan C.Q., Expression of single domain antibody ToxA5.1 in recombinant Escherichia coli: Part I - Dual-point pH-stat fed-batch fermentation, Current Topics Biotechnology 8: 1-13

Parisien A., Dembélé S., Thibault J., Lan C.Q., Expression of single domain antibody ToxA5.1 in recombinant Escherichia coli: Part II - Effects of medium composition and operation conditions, Current Topics Biotechnology 8: 39-50 

Y Yang, D Rana, T Matsuura, S Zheng, CQ Lan, Criteria for the selection of a support material to fabricate coated membranes for a life support device, RSC Advances 4 (73), 38711-38717 (2014)

Y Yang, J Stapleton, BT Diagne, GP Kenny, CQ Lan, Man-portable personal cooling garment based on vacuum desiccant cooling, Applied Thermal Engineering 47, 18-24 (2012)

Wang B. and Lan CQ, Removal of nitrate, ammonium and phosphate from artificial or secondary municipal wastewater by the green alga Neochloris oleoabundans, Bioresource Technology, 2011, 102: 5639-5644

Li Y., Horsman M., Wang B., Wu N., and Lan C.Q., Effects of nitrogen sources on cell growth and lipid production of Neochloris oleoabundans, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, 81 (4), pp. 629-636 (2008)

Li Y., Horsman M, Wu N, and Lan C.Q., Dubois-Calero N., Biofuels from Microalgae, Biotech Prog, 24: 815-820 (2008)

Wang B., Li Y., Wu N., and Lan C.Q., CO₂ Bio-Mitigation Using Microalgae, App Microbiol Biotech, 79: 707-718 (2008)

Lan CQ, Oddone G, Mills DA, and Block DE, Kinetics of Lactococcus lactis Growth and Metabolite Formation under Aerobic or Anaerobic Conditions at the Presence or Absence of Hemin, Biotechnol Bioeng, 95(6): 1070 – 1080 (2006)

Lan Q, A Bassi, J-X Zhu and A Margaritis, Continuous Protein Recovery from Whey Using Liquid Solid Circulating Fluidized Bed Ion Exchange Extraction. Biotechnol Bioeng. 78(2) 157-163, 2002

Lan Q, A Bassi, J-X Zhu and A Margaritis, A Modified Langmuir Model for the Prediction of the Effects of Ionic Strength on the Equilibrium Characteristics of Protein Adsorption onto Ion Exchange/Affinity Adsorbents. Chem Eng J 179-186 (2001)

Patents

Bassi A. S., J. Zhu, Q. Lan, A. Margaritis, Y. Zheng, Continuos ion exchange using liquid-solids circulating fluidized bed, CA2322348, (2008)

Bassi A. S., J. Zhu, Q. Lan, A. Margaritis, Y. Zheng, Methods for recovering ionic products, USA Patent 6,887,386, B2 (2005)

Bassi A. S., J. Zhu, Q. Lan, A. Margaritis, Y. Zheng, Liquid-solids circulating fluidized bed, USA Patent 6,716,344, (2004)