Ellen Tanudjaja

Continuing Academic Career in Sakura Country

Ellen Tanudjaja, recipient of Monbukagakusho Japan’s scholarship for Bioengineering master’s program at Tohoku University is an alumnus to UPH’s Biotechnology. Not only is Ellen recipient to the aforementioned scholarship, she is also recipient to Hisho Award in 2016 for Excellent Student Award of the Society for Biotechnology, Japan and The Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS Fellowship) – DC2 Special Research Award for her Elcidation of Novel Functions of Escherichia coli Trk/Ktr/HKT Transporter research in 2019.

Besides the awards that Ellen has received, she is further working with a few colleagues to do research publications. Take Ellen’s research with Naomi Hoshi, Yi-Hsin Su, Shin Hamamoto, and Nobuyuki Uozumi’s research in 2017 research entitled Kup-mediated Cs+ uptake and Kdp-driven K+ uptake coorndinate to promote cell growth during excess Cs+ conditions in Escherichia coli as an example – it was then publicized at National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. This research led Ellen and her colleagues to present their findings, Kup-driven Cs+ uptake promote Escherichia coli growth under K+ limited condition at American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Microbe on June 2019, America.