Low Carbon Biomanufacturing of Microbial Proteins/fatty acids

He graduated from the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Ph.D.) in 2007, and then joined Liaocheng University. He has successively served as an associate professor and head of the Department of Food Science. In 2011, he joined the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now a Professor, doctoral supervisor, and head of the Industrial biosystem and bioengineering research group. He visited Washington State University in the United States from August 2015 to July 2016.

He has presided over more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial projects, obtained more than 30 authorized national invention patents, published more than 100 articles in well-known magazines such as Nature Communication, Biotechnology Advances, and was selected as a distinguished research post of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a coordinator of the bioenergy joint research group of COMSATS Industrial Biotechnology Joint Center, Member of the Industrial Fermentation Sub technical Committee of the National Standardization Technical Committee for the Food Industry, and editorial board member of the journal 'Fermentation'. Received the second prize of the National Oceanic Administration Marine Engineering Award and the second prize of the National Oceanic Administration Marine Science and Technology Award as the main completion person.

[1] J. Xu, J. Wang, C. Ma, Z. Wei, Y. Zhai, N. Tian, Z. Zhu, M. Xue, D. Li, Embracing a low-carbon future by the production and marketing of C1 gas protein, Biotechnology Advances, 63 (2023) 108096.

[2] J. Wang, L. Chen, J. Xu, S. Ma, X. Liang, Z. Wei, D. Li, M. Xue, C1 gas protein: A potential protein substitute for advancing aquaculture sustainability, Reviews in Aquaculture, 15 (2023) 1-19.

[3] S. Tong, K. An, W. Chen, M. Chai, Y. Sun, Q. Wang, D. Li, Identification of neutral genome integration sites with high expression and high integration efficiency in Fusarium venenatum TB01, Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 8 (2023) 141-147.

[4] J. Li, S. Tong, F.R. Amin, H. Khalid, K. Chen, X. Zhao, J. Cai, D. Li, Enhancing the Activity of a Self-Inducible Promoter in Escherichia coli through Saturation Mutation and High-Throughput Screening, Fermentation, 9 (2023) 468.

[5] X. Zhu, C. Meng, F. Sun, Z. Wei, L. Chen, W. Chen, S. Tong, H. Du, J. Gao, J. Ren, D. Li, Z. Gao, Sustainable production of astaxanthin in microorganisms: the past, present, and future, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, (2022) 1-17.

[6] S. Tong, L. Zhao, D. Zhu, W. Chen, L. Chen, D. Li, From formic acid to single-cell protein: genome-scale revealing the metabolic network of Paracoccus communis MA5, Bioresources and Bioprocessing, 9 (2022) 55.

[7] S. Tong, K. An, W. Zhou, W. Chen, Y. Sun, Q. Wang, D. Li, Establishment of High-Efficiency Screening System for Gene Deletion in Fusarium venenatum TB01, Journal of Fungi, 8 (2022) 169.

[8] S. Tong, K. An, W. Chen, W. Zhou, Y. Sun, Q. Wang, D. Li, Evasion of Cas9 toxicity to develop an efficient genome editing system and its application to increase ethanol yield in Fusarium venenatum TB01, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 106 (2022).

[9] D. Li, R. Tang, L. Yu, L. Chen, S. Chen, S. Xu, F. Gao, Effects of increasing organic loading rates on reactor performance and the methanogenic community in a new pilot upflow solid reactor for continuously processing food waste, Renewable Energy, 153 (2020) 420-429.

[10] D. Li, C. Meng, G. Wu, B. Xie, Y. Han, Y. Guo, C. Song, Z. Gao, Z. Huang, Effects of zinc on the production of alcohol by Clostridium carboxidivorans P7 using model syngas, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, 45 (2018) 61-69.

Key international cooperation projects, key research and development plans, major agricultural research and development projects, and Tianjin Municipal Improvement Action projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology