Positions:

08/2011-Present      Associate Professor, National Taiwan Ocean University

08/2007-07/2011    Assistant Professor, National Taiwan Ocean University

03/2006-07/2007    Postdoctoral Researcher/Lecturer, City University of Hong Kong

05/2005-01/2006    Research Scientist, BIOTEC, Thailand

12/2004-04/2005    Postdoctoral Researcher/Lecturer, City University of Hong Kong

01/2002-11/2004    Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Portsmouth, UK

09/2001-12/2001    Research Assistant, City University of Hong Kong

Awards and Honor:

2002-2003     Croucher Foundation Fellowship, Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong

 Academic Activities:

Consultancy

2007     Environmental Protection Department, HKSAR

2007     BCR China Ltd, Hong Kong

2006     Hong Kong Indoor Air Quality Society

2006    Bausch & Lomb (S) Ptd Ltd, Hong Kong

Invited Presentations

1. Pang, K. L. (2006). Indoor Air Pollutants. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Assessment & Management Training Course, 19-20 Jun. 2006, Jockey Club Environmental Building, Hong Kong.

2. Pang, K. L. and Abdel-Wahab, M. A. (2006). Documentation of marine fungal diversity: classical vs. molecular techniques. 8th International Mycological Congress, 20-25 Aug. 2006, Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia.

3. Pang, K. L. and Mitchell, J. I. (2004). Molecular and morphological taxonomy of marine fungi associated with timbers in a coastal environment. The IV Asia-Pacific Mycological Congress & The IX International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium, 14-19 Nov. 2004, Lotus Hotel Pang Suan Kaew, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

4. Jones, E. B. G., Sakayaroj, J., Somrithipol, S. and Pang, K. L. (2007). Classification of marine Basidiomycota and Ascomycota. Asian Mycology Congress 2007 & Xth International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium, 2-6 Dec. 2007, Parkroyal Hotel, Penang, Malaysia.

Reviewer of manuscripts submitted to the following international refereed journals (from 2004):

1.   Aquatic Microbial Ecology

2.   Botanica Marina

3.   Fungal Diversity

4.   Mycological Progress

5.   Mycologia

6.   Mycotaxon

Session chairman of international conferences:

1.   ‘Taxonomy and phylogeny of marine fungi’. The IX International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium, 14-19th November 2004, Lotus Hotel Pang Suan Kaew, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

2.   ‘A century of marine mycology’. 8th International Mycological Congress, 20-25 Aug. 2006, Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia.

3.   ‘Phylogeny of marine and freshwater fungi’. Asian Mycology Congress 2007 & Xth International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium, 2-6 Dec. 2007, Parkroyal Hotel, Penang, Malaysia.

 Research Area:

1.   Inventory of Marine Mangrove Fungi in Taiwan

2.   Diversity and phylogeny of marine fungi of the Western Pacific

3.   Diversity and phylogeny of trichomycetes associated with marine arthropods in Taiwan

4.   Mangrove sediment fungi – their possible role in bioremediation of heavy metals and producer of bio-nanomaterials

5.   Chemical and molecular characterization of degradation of phthalate esters by mangrove fungi

 Publications

Book

 1.  Pang, K. L., Jheng, J. S. and Jones, E. B. G. (2011). Marine mangrove fungi of Taiwan. National Taiwan Ocean University Press, Keelung. p131.

International refereed journals

1.Abdel-Wahab, M. A., Pang, K. L.*, El-Sharouney, H. M. and Jones, E. B. G. (2001). Halosarpheia  unicellularis sp. nov. (Halosphaeriales, Ascomycota) on mangrove wood from Egypt with supporting molecular data. Mycoscience. 42: 255-260.(SCI)

2.Pang, K. L.*, Abdel-Wahab, M. A., Sivichai, S., El-Sharouney, H. M. and Jones, E. B. G. (2002). Jahnulales (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota): a new order of lignicolous freshwater ascomycetes. Mycological Research. 106: 1031-1042.(SCI)

3.Pang, K. L.*, Vrijmoed, L. L. P., Kong, R. Y. C. and Jones, E. B. G. (2003). Lignincola and Nais, polyphyletic genera of the Halosphaeriales (Ascomycota). Mycological Progress. 2: 29-36.(SCI)

4.Pang, K. L.*, Vrijmoed, L. L. P., Kong, R. Y. C. and Jones, E. B. G. (2003). Polyphyly of Halosarpheia (Halosphaeriales, Ascomycota): implications on the use of unfurling ascospore appendage as a systematic character. Nova Hedwigia. 77: 1-18.(SCI)

5.Tam, W. Y., Pang, K. L.* and Jones, E. B. G. (2003). Ordinal placement of selected marine Dothideomycetes inferred from small subunit ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. Botanica Marina. 46:487-494.(SCI)

6. Pang, K. L.* and Jones, E. B. G. (2004). Reclassifications in Halosarpheia and related genera with unfurling ascospore appendages. Nova Hedwigia. 78: 269-271.(SCI)

7.Pang, K. L.*, Jones, E. B. G. and Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2004). Two new marine fungi from China and Singapore, with the description of a new genus, Sablecola (Halosphaeriales, Ascomycota). Canadian Journal of Botany. 82: 485-490.(SCI)

8.Pang, K. L.*, Jones, E. B. G., Vrijmoed, L. L. P. and Vikineswary, S. (2004). Okeanomyces, a new genus to accommodate Halosphaeria cucullata (Halosphaeriales, Ascomycota). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 146: 223-229.(SCI)

9.Rizzo, A. M. and Pang, K. L.* (2005). A zygosporic stage of the Harpellales (Trichomycetes, Zygomycota) associated with simuliid egg masses. Mycological Research. 109: 266-270.

  (SCI)  

10. Rizzo, A. M. and Pang, K. L.* (2005). New primers for detection of Smittium spp. (Trichomycetes, Zygomycota) in insect hosts. Fungal Diversity. 19: 129-136.(SCI)

11.Sakayaroj, J., Pang, K. L., Jones, E. B. G. and Phongpaichit, S. (2005). A phylogenetic study of the genus Haligena (Halosphaeriales, Ascomycota). Mycologia. 97: 804-811.(SCI)

12.Pang, K. L.* and Mitchell, J. I. (2005). Molecular approaches for assessing fungal diversity in marine substrata. Botanica Marina. 48: 332-347.(SCI)

13.Sakayaroj, J., Pang, K. L., Jones, E. B. G., Phongpaichit, S., Vrijmoed, L. L. P. and Abdel-Wahab, M. A. (2005). A systematic reassessment of the marine ascomycetes Torpedospora and Swampomyces. Botanica Marina. 48: 395-406.(SCI)

14.Pang, K. L., Jones, E. B. G., Chiang, W. L. and Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2006). Ascospore ultrastructure of Halosarpheia fibrosa (Halosphaeriales, Ascomycota). Nova Hedwigia. 83: 207-217.

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15.Jones, E. B. G., Chatmala, I. and Pang, K. L. (2006). Two new genera isolated from marine habitats in Thailand: Pseudolignincola and Thalespora (Halosphaeriales, Ascomycota). Nova Hedwigia. 83: 219-232.(SCI)

16.Yang, L. H., Miao, L., Lee, O. O., Li, X., Xiong, H., Pang, K. L., Vrijmoed, L. and Qian, P. Y. (2007). Effect of culture conditions on antifouling compound production of a sponge-associated fungus. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 74: 1221-1231.(SCI)

17.Koch, J., Pang, K. L.* and Jones, E. B. G. (2007). Rostrupiella danica gen. et sp nov., a Lulworthia-like marine lignicolous species from Denmark and the USA. Botanica Marina. 50: 294-301.(SCI)

18.Pang, K. L., Vrijmoed, L. L. P., Goh, T. K., Plaingam, N. and Jones, E. B. G. (2008). Fungal endophytes associated with Kandelia candel (Rhizophoraceae) in Mai Po Nature Reserve, Hong Kong. Botanica Marina. 51: 171-178.(SCI)

19.Pang, K. L., Chiang, M. W. L. and Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2008). Havispora longyearbyenensis gen. et sp nov.: an arctic marine fungus from Svalbard, Norway. Mycologia. 100: 291-295.

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20. Pang, K. L.*, Vrijmoed, L. L. P. and Jones, E. B. G. (2008). Autecology of Antennospora (Fungi: Ascomycota: Sordariomycetidae: Halosphaeriales) and its phylogeny. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 19: 1-10.(SCI)

21.Jones, E. B. G., Klaysuban, A. and Pang, K. L.* (2008). Ribosomal DNA phylogeny of marine anamorphic fungi: Cumulospora varia, Dendryphiella species and Orbimyces spectabilis. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 19: 11-18.(SCI)

22.Jones, E. B. G., Sakayaroj, J., Suetrong, S., Somrithipol, S. and Pang, K. L. (2009). Classification of marine Ascomycota, anamorphic taxa and Basidiomycota. Fungal Diversity. 35: 1-187.(SCI)

23. Luo, Z. H., Pang, K. L., Gu, J. D., Chow, R. K. K., Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2009). Degradability of the three dimethyl phthalate isomer esters (DMPEs) by a Fusarium species isolated from mangrove sediment. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 58: 765-768.(SCI)

24.Pang, K. L., Chiang, M. W. L. and Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2009). Remispora spitsbergenensis sp. nov., a marine lignicolous ascomycete from Svalbard, Norway. Mycologia. 101: 531-534.

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25.Jones, E. B.G., Zuccaro, A., Mitchell, J. I., Nakagiri, A., Chatmala, I. and Pang, K. L. (2009). Phylogenetic position of freshwater and marine Sigmoidea species: introducing a marine hyphomycete Halosigmoidea gen. nov (Halosphaeriales). Botanica Marina. 52: 349-359.(SCI)

26.Abdel-Wahab, M. A., Pang, K. L., Nagahama, T., Abdel-Aziz, F. A. and Jones, E. B. G. (2010). Phylogenetic evaluation of anamorphic species of Cirrenalia and Cumulospora with the description of eight new genera and four new species. Mycological Progress. 9: 537-558.(SCI)

27. Leaño, E. M. and Pang, K. L.* (2010). Effect of copper(II), lead(II), and zinc(II) on growth and sporulation of Halophytophthora from Taiwan mangroves. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution. 213: 85-93.(SCI)

28.Jones, E. B. G. and Pang, K. L.* (2010). 11th International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium, Taichung, Taiwan ROC, November 2009. Botanica Marina. 53: 475-478.(SCI)

29.Pang, K. L.*, Alias, S. A., Chiang, M. W. L., Vrijmoed, L. L. P. and Jones, E. B. G. (2010). Sedecimiella taiwanensis gen. et sp. nov., a marine mangrove fungus in the Hypocreales (Hypocreomycetidae, Ascomycota). Botanica Marina. 53: 493-498.(SCI)

30.Pang, K. L., Sharuddin, S. S., Alias S. A., Nor, N. A. M. and Awaluddin, H. H. (2010). Diversity and abundance of lignicolous marine fungi from the east and west coasts of Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah (Borneo Island). Botanica Marina. 53: 515-523.(SCI)

31.Lin, Y. C., Leaño, E. M. and Pang, K. L.* (2010). Effects of Cu(II) and Zn(II) on growth and cell morphology of thraustochytrids isolated from fallen mangrove leaves in Taiwan. Botanica Marina. 53: 581-586.(SCI)

32.Pang, K. L.*, Chow, R. K. K., Chan, C. W. and Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2011). Diversity and physiology of marine lignicolous fungi in Arctic waters: a preliminary account. Polar Research. 30: 1-5.(SCI)

33.Sakayaroj, J., Pang, K. L. and Jones, E. B. G. (2011). Multi-gene phylogeny of the Halosphaeriaceae: its ordinal status, relationships between genera and morphological character evolution. Fungal Diversity. 46: 87-109.(SCI)

34.Gams, W., Jaklitsch, W., …, Pang, K. L., …76 others. (2011). A critical response to the ‘Amsterdam Declaration’. Mycotaxon. 116: 1-12.(SCI)

35.Krishnan, A., Alias, S. A., Wong, C. M. V. L., Pang, K. L., Convey, P. (2011). Extracellular hydrolase enzyme production by soil fungi from King George Island, Antarctica. Polar Biology. 34: 1535-1542.(SCI)

36.Luo, Z. H., Wu, Y. R., Pang, K. L., Gu, J. D. and Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2011). Comparison of initial hydrolysis of the three dimethyl phthalate esters (DMPEs) by a basidiomycetous yeast, Trichosporon DMI-5-1, from coastal sediment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 18: 1653-1660.(SCI)

37.Boonyuen, N., Chuaseeharonnachai, C., Suetrong, S., Sri-indrasutdhi, V., Sivichai, S. Pang, K. L. and Jones, E. B. G. (2011). Savoryellales (Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes): a novel lineage of aquatic ascomycetes inferred from multiple-gene phylogenies of the genera Ascotaiwania, Ascothailandia, and Savoryella. Mycologia. DOI: 10.3852/11-102(SCI)

38.Suetrong, S., Boonyuen, N., Pang, K. L., Ueapattanakit, J., Klaysuban, A., Sri-indrasutdhi, V., Sivichai, S. and Jones, E. B. G. (2011). Aliquandostipitaceae and the new family Manglicolaceae, Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-011-0138-5(SCI)

39.Jones, E. B. G. and Pang, K. L. (2011). Tropical aquatic fungi. Biodiversity and Conservation. [In Press](SCI)

40.Pang, K. L.* and Jheng, J. S. Soliomyces formosus gen. et sp. nov. (Halosphaeriaceae, Ascomycota) from a rocky shore of Taiwan. Botanical Studies. [Submitted](SCI)

Conference Papers

1.    Vrijmoed, L. L. P., Chan, W. Y. and Pang, K. L. (2007). Outdoor airborne fungi in the Arctic region – Svalbard, Norway. In: Abstracts, 3rd Malaysian International Seminar on Antarctica (MISA3), “From the Tropics to the Poles”  and ICSU(ROAP)-SCAR Forum on “Understanding the Implications of Rapid Warming in the Polar Regions on Earth systems”, 21-23 Mar. 2007, Le Meridien Hotel, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

2.     Pang, K. L., Suhaila, O., Alias, S. A. and Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2007). Soil and marine lignicolous fungi in Svalbard, Arctic: a preliminary account. In: Abstracts, 3rd Malaysian International Seminar on Antarctica (MISA3), “From the Tropics to the Poles”  and ICSU(ROAP)-SCAR Forum on “Understanding the Implications of Rapid Warming in the Polar Regions on Earth systems”, 21-23 Mar. 2007, Le Meridien Hotel, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

3.     Luo, Z. H., Pang, K. L., Gu, J. D. and Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2007). Phthalate degradation by mangrove soil fungi. In: Abstracts, 5th International Conference on Marine Pollution and Ecotoxicology, 3-6 Jun. 2007, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.

4.     Pang, K. L., Chan, C. W. and Vrijmoed, L. L. P. (2007). Wood-inhabiting marine fungi from Arctic waters. In: Abstracts, Asian Mycology Congress 2007 & Xth International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium, 2-6 Dec. 2007, Parkroyal Hotel, Penang, Malaysia.

5.     Chen, H. H. and Pang, K. L. (2007). A new marine coelomycete isolated from Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, Australia. In: Abstracts, Asian Mycology Congress 2007 & Xth International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium, 2-6 Dec. 2007, Parkroyal Hotel, Penang, Malaysia.

6.     Pang, K. L., Chen, H. H. and Jones, E. B. G. (2007). Marine mycologists: past and present. In: Abstracts, Asian Mycology Congress 2007 & Xth International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium, 2-6 Dec. 2007, Parkroyal Hotel, Penang, Malaysia.

7.     Jones, E. B. G., Sakayaroj, J., Somrithipol, S. and Pang, K. L. (2007). Classification of marine Basidiomycota and Ascomycota. In: Abstracts, Asian Mycology Congress 2007 & Xth International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium, 2-6 Dec. 2007, Parkroyal Hotel, Penang, Malaysia.

8.     Lin, Y. C., Leano, E. M. and Pang, K. L. (2008). Growth effects of Cu2+ and Zn2+ on thraustochytrids isolated from fallen mangrove leaves in Taiwan. In: Abstracts, The South China Sea- Sustaining Ocean Productivitities, Maritime Communities and the Climate, 25-29 Nov. 2008, Hyatt Regency Kuantan Resort, Kuantan, Malaysia.

　

Book chapter

　

1.Pang, K. L. (2002). Systematics of the Halosphaeriales: which morphological characters are important? In: Fungi in Marine Environments (ed. K. D. Hyde). Fungal Diversity Research Series 9, Fungal Diversity Press, Hong Kong. pp. 35-57

　

2.Pang, K. L., Eaton, R. A. and Mitchell, J. I. (2005). Molecular detection of bacteria in the seventeenth century Swedish warship Vasa. In: Proceedings of the 9th ICOM Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference, Copenhagen 2004 (eds. P. Hoffmann, J. A. Spriggs, K. Strætkvern and D. Gregory). ICOM, Committee for Conservation Working Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials, Bremerhaven. pp. 243-260

　

3.Hotchkiss, S., Landy, E., Pang, K. L. and Mitchell, J. I. (2008). Bacteria in archaeological and waterlogged wood: molecular protocols for diversity and community studies. In: Heritage Microbiology and Science- Microbes, Monuments and Maritime Materials (eds. E. May, M. Jones and J. I. Mitchell). RSC Publishing, Cambridge. pp. 108-127

　

4.Mitchell, J. I., Pang, K. L., Jones, M. and Smith, A. (2008). Molecular bacterial diversity in the timbers of the Tudor warship, the Mary Rose. In: Heritage Microbiology and Science- Microbes, Monuments and Maritime Materials (eds. E. May, M. Jones and J. I. Mitchell). RSC Publishing, Cambridge. pp. 204-218

　

5.Pang, K. L., Chiang, W. L. and Jheng, J. S. (2011). Classification of fungi with unfurling ascospore appendages in the Halosphaeriaceae (Microascales, Ascomycota). In: Biology of Marine Fungi-Revisited (ed. C. Raghukumar and V. Sarma). Springer-Verlag, Berlin. [In Press]

　

6.Luo, Z. H., Pang, K. L., Wu, Y. R., Gu, J. D., Chow, R. K. K. and Vrijmoed, L.L.P. (2011). Degradation of phthalate esters by Fusarium sp. DMT-5-3 and Trichosporon sp. DMI-5-1 isolated from mangrove sediments. In: Biology of Marine Fungi-Revisited (ed. C. Raghukumar and V. Sarma). Springer-Verlag, Berlin. [In Press]

　

7.Pang, K. L. (2012). Phylogeny of the marine Sordariomycetes. In: Marine Fungi and Fungal-like Organisms (eds. E. B. G. Jones and K. L. Pang). De Gruyter, Berlin. [Accepted]