Dr. Timothy Tse BSc, MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Plant SciencesTim has previously obtained his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Saskatchewan in 2011. He further enrolled in the Ph.D. programme at the Toxicology Centre, the University of Saskatchewan, where he employed analytical mass spectrometry techniques and next-generation sequencing to reconstruct trends in the phototrophic community in Prairie lakes. Recently, he employed whole-genome shotgun sequencing to identify an endemic microbial community responsible for the conversion of glycerol into high-value compounds (e.g. 1,3-propanediol) in wheat-based thin stillage. As a postdoctoral fellow, he is working on enhancing the utilization of canola and barley crops in the production of ethanol and relevant, valuable co-products (e.g. alpha-glycerylphosphorylcholine). Currently, he is also researching methods to upgrade and purify industrial ethanol to pharmaceutical/food-grade ethanol, as well as investigating ways to increase ethanol and alpha-glycerylphosphorylcholine content during alcoholic fermentation.
- Address
- Room 6E64 Department of Plant Science
- College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan
- 51 Campus Drive Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5A8
Research Area(s)
- Next-generation sequencing
- Analytical mass spectrometry
- Alpha-glycerylphosphorylcholine
- Barley
- Canola
- Ethanol
- USP
Education
Dr. Tse received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry and his Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of Saskatchewan.
Publications
Oyeneye, A., Shen, J., Shim, Y. Y., Tse, T. J., Reaney, M. J. T. 2020. Production of a-glycerylphosphorylcholine and other compounds from wheat fermentation. Accepted in ACS Omega.
Tse, T. J., Shen, J., Shim, Y. Y., Reaney, M. J. T. 2020. Changes in bacterial populations and their metabolism over 90 sequential cultures on wheat-based thin stillage. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 68: 4717-4729.
Tse, T. J., Reaney, M. J. T. 2018. Enrichment and Utilization of Thin Stillage Byproducts. In “Food Wastes and By-Products” (eds) R. Campos-Vega, B. D. Oomah and H.A. Vergara-Castañeda. doi:10.1002/9781119534167.ch2.
Marambe, H., Purdy, S., Tse, T.J., Reaney, M. J. T. 2020. Flax oil and high linolenic oils. In. “Bailey’s Industrial Oil and Fat Products”. F. Shahidi (Ed.). doi:10.1002/047167849X.bio010.pub2.
Nie, J., Shen, J., Shim, Y. Y., Tse, T. J., and Reaney, M. J. T. 2019. Synthesis of trimethylolpropane esters by base-catalyzed transesterification. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology. doi:10.1002/ejlt.201900207.
Liu, J., Shim, Y. Y., Tse, T. J., and Reaney, M. J. T. 2018. Flaxseed gum a versatile natural hydrocolloid for food and non-food application. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 75: 146-157.
Codling, G., Sturchio, N. C., Rockne, K. J., Li, A., Peng, H., Tse, T. J., Jones, P. D., and Giesy, J. P. 2018. Spatial and Temporal trends in poly- and per-fluorinated compounds in the Laurentian Great Lakes Erie, Ontario and St. Clair. Environmental Pollution. 237: 396-405.
Tse, T. J., Tang, S., Doig, L. E., Zhang, X., Sun, W., Wiseman, S. B., Feng, X., Liu H., Giesy, J. P., Hecker, M., and Jones, P. D. 2018. Combining high-throughput sequencing of sedaDNA and traditional palaeolimnological techniques to infer historical trends in cyanobacterial communities. Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 52: 6842-6853.
Tse, T. J., Quiñones-Rivera, Z., Leavitt, P. R., Codling, G., Lucas, B. T., Doig, L. E., Liber, K., Wheater, H., and Jones, P. D. 2015. Long-term spatial trends in algae and cyanobacteria abundance in a narrow river-valley reservoir, Lake Diefenbaker, Canada. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 41 (Supplement 2): 56-66.
Tse, T. J., Codling, G., Jones, P. D., Thoms, K., Liber, K., Giesy, J. P., Wheater, H., and Doig, L. E. 2013. Reconstructing long-term trends in municipal sewage discharge into a small lake in northern Manitoba, Canada. Chemosphere. 103: 299-305.