The Microbial Manufacturing Engineering center mainly takes cyanobacteria, filamentous fungi, yeast, and enzymes as materials and platforms. The approaches of metabolic engineering, genetics, natural products chemistry, bioinformatics, and et al. were combinatorically utilized to remove the bottlenecks of microbial green biomanufacturing on the scales of germplasm resource, mechanisms, technologies, and industrial process.

Prof. LU Xuefeng received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of New Mexico in 2005 and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University. He joined the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as a Full Professor in 2008 and currently serves as both the Director of QIBEBT and the Principal Investigator of the Microbial Manufacturing Engineering Center. He was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the NSFC in 2015 and recognized as an Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker of Shandong Province in 2021. With a long-standing dedication to synthetic biotechnology and green biomanufacturing, he has published over 100 papers in prestigious journals including Nature Communications, Energy & Environmental Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and holds over 80 authorized patents. In addition, he has spearheaded the establishment of six joint industry innovation laboratories/centers, completed 20 technology transfers, and founded a startup company.