2009-09 to 2014-07 Ph.D.: Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2021-03 to 2023-02 - Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology - Project Group Leader
2016-01 to 2021-02 - Goethe University Frankfurt - Postdoctoral Researcher
The Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research (2016): Other
The CAS Presidential Excellence Award (2014): Other
Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the CAS (2014): Other
First-Prize Di-Ao Award of the CAS (2013): Other
National Scholarship for Ph.D. Students (2013): National Level
Research
Active Molecule Discovery and Functional Characterization Natural Product Mediated Species Interactions Human Microbiome
Cleavage Off-Loading and Post-assembly-Line Conversions Yield Products with Unusual Termini during Biosynthesis, Yiming Shi, 2022
Genome Mining Enabled by Biosynthetic Characterization Uncovers a Class of Benzoxazolinate-Containing Natural Products in Diverse Bacteria, Yiming Shi, 2022
Global analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters reveals conserved and unique natural products in entomopathogenic nematode-symbiotic bacteria, Yiming Shi, 2022
An Unconventional Melanin Biosynthesis Pathway in Ustilago maydis, Yiming Shi, 2021
Engineering bacterial symbionts of nematodes improves their biocontrol potential to counter the western corn rootworm, Yiming Shi, 2020
Engineering bacterial symbionts of nematodes improves biocontrol potential of the western corn rootworm, Yiming Shi, 2020
(+/-)-Alternarlactones A and B, Two Antiparasitic Alternariol-like Dimers from the Fungus Alternaria alternata P1210 Isolated from the Halophyte Salicornia sp., Yiming Shi, 2019
Expanding the Isoprenoid Building Block Repertoire with an IPP Methyltransferase from Streptomyces monomycini, Yiming Shi, 2019
CRAGE enables rapid activation of biosynthetic gene clusters in undomesticated bacteria, Yiming Shi, 2019
An Uncommon Type II PKS Catalyzes Biosynthesis of Aryl Polyene Pigments, Yiming Shi, 2019
Chemical language and warfare of bacterial natural products in bacteria-nematode-insect interactions, Yiming Shi, 2018
Schinortriterpenoids with Identical Configuration but Distinct ECD Spectra Generated by Nondegenerate Exciton Coupling, Yiming Shi, 2018
Georatusin, a Specific Antiparasitic Polyketide-Peptide Hybrid from the Fungus Geomyces auratus, Yiming Shi, 2018
Refining the Natural Product Repertoire in Entomopathogenic Bacteria, Yiming Shi, 2018
Lanostane-type triterpenoids from Kadsura coccinea, Yiming Shi, 2017
Structure and Biosynthesis of Isatropolones, Bioactive Amine-Scavenging Fluorescent Natural Products from Streptomyces Go66, Yiming Shi, 2017
MICROROBIOLOGY A new language for small talk, Yiming Shi, 2017
Natural product diversity associated with the nematode symbionts Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus, Yiming Shi, 2017
Structural Characterization of Kadcoccinin A: A Sesquiterpenoid with a Tricyclo4.4.0.0(3,10)decane Scaffold from Kadsura coccinea, Yiming Shi, 2016
Plasiatine, an Unprecedented Indole-Phenylpropanoid Hybrid from Plantago asiatica as a Potent Activator of the Nonreceptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Shp2, Yiming Shi, 2016
LC-UV-Guided Isolation and Structure Determination of Lancolide E: A Nortriterpenoid with a Tetracyclo5.4.0.0(2,4).0(3,7)undecane-Bridged System from a 'Talented' Schisandra Plant, Yiming Shi, 2016
Rearranged 6/6/5/6-Fused Triterpenoid Acids from the Stems of Kadsura coccinea, Yiming Shi, 2016
Chemical constituents from Piper wallichii, Yiming Shi, 2015
Kadcoccinones A-F, New Biogenetically Related Lanostane-Type Triterpenoids with Diverse Skeletons from Kadsura coccinea, Yiming Shi, 2015
Laxiflorol A, the first example of 7,8:15,16-di-seco-15-nor-21-homo-ent-kauranoid from Isodon eriocalyx var. laxiflora, Yiming Shi, 2015
Triterpenoids from the Schisandraceae family: an update, Yiming Shi, 2015
Lignans and aromatic glycosides from Piper wallichii and their antithrombotic activities, Yiming Shi, 2015
Two New 18-Norschiartane-type Schinortriterpenoids from Schisandra lancifolia, Yiming Shi, 2015
Area of Focus
Peptides | Biochemistry | Pharmaceuticals | Drug Development | Pdt | Cancer Research | Molecular Biology | Chemical Synthesis | Protein Engineering | Therapeutics