Associate research professor

Research Interests:

1) Synthetic biology of cyanobacteria for biochemical production

2) Carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in cyanobacteria

3) Oxidative stress of cyanobacteria

Representative Papers:

1. Yue Qiao; Weihua Wang*; Xuefeng Lu*; 2020, Engineering cyanobacteria as cell factories for direct trehalose production from CO2, Metabolic Engineering, 62: 161-171.

2. Yue Qiao; Weihua Wang*; Xuefeng Lu*; 2020, High light induced alka(e)ne biodegradation for lipid and redox homeostasis in cyanobacteria, Frontiers in Microbiology, 11: 1659. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01659

3. Min Xie; Weihua Wang*; Weiwen Zhang; Lei Chen; Xuefeng Lu*; Versatility of hydrocarbon production in cyanobacteria, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2017, 101: 905-919

4. Weihua Wang^#; Xufeng Liu^#; Xuefeng Lu*; Engineering cyanobacteria to improve photosynthetic production of alka(e)nes, Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2013, 6(1). doi: 10.1186/1754-6834-6-69.

5. Weihua Wang; Xuefeng Lu*; Microbial synthesis of alka(e)nes, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2013, 1(10). doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2013.00010.

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