{"id":84,"date":"2025-03-05T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:06:17","slug":"mark-lange-short-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/mark-lange-short-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lange Short Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Faculty Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Bernd Markus (“Mark”) Lange
Director and Professor<\/strong>, Institute of Biological Chemistry
Director<\/strong>, M.J. Murdock Metabolomics Laboratory
Director<\/strong>, NIH Protein Biotechnology Training Program
Washington State University
Plant Sciences Building
Pullman, WA 99164-7411, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Office: ………509-335-3412
E-Mail: ……..lange-m@wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lab Website: Weblink
<\/a>Service Center Website: Weblink<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honors and Recognition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2025, Co-Organizer, Annual Conference of the Phytochemical Society of North America<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019, Vice Chair, Terpnet Conference, Halle, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021, Elected Fellow, Amercican Association for the Advancement of Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019, Elected Member, Faculty of 1000 (now Faculty Opinion)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018, Co-Chair, Gordon Research Conference of Plant Volatiles, Lucca, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 – 2018, President, Phytochemical Society of North America<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016, Co-Chair, ACMAC Conference, Spokane, WA, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007, Arthur C. Neish Young Investigator Award, Phytochemical Society of North America<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n

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Professional Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2025 – present
Director<\/strong>, NIH Protein Biotechnology Graduate Training Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 – present
Director<\/strong>, Institute of Biological Chemistry
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007 \u2013 present
Director<\/strong>, M.J. Murdock Metabolomics Laboratory
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
http:\/\/www.murdockmetabolomics.wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 – present
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer<\/strong>, Dewey Scientific LLC, Pullman, WA, USA (plant biotechnology company)
https:\/\/www.deweyscientific.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009 – 2013
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer<\/strong>, Ajuga Biosciences, Pullman, WA, USA (plant biotechnology company)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003 \u2013 2004
Senior Staff Scientist<\/strong> (Cell Engineering)
Diversa Inc. (now part of BASF), San Diego, CA, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000 \u2013 2003
Principal Investigator<\/strong>, Head of Metabolic Pathway Genomics Group,
Torrey Mesa Research Institute, Syngenta Research & Technology, San Diego, CA, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1997 \u2013 2000
Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/strong>
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA (group of Prof. Rod Croteau)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1995 \u2013 <\/em>1996
Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/strong>, Pharmazeutisches Institut,
Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen , Germany (group of Prof. Lutz Heide)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1991 – 1995
Graduate Student<\/strong> (Ph.D.<\/strong> (“Dr. rer. nat.”)
Helmholz Center, Munich, Germany (group of Prof. Heinrich Sandermann)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986 – 1991
Undergraduate Studies<\/strong> in Chemistry (graduation with M.Sc.<\/strong> (“Diplom”) University of Bonn, Germany<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":44101,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/lange-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}