Areas of Focus
- Screening and application of extremophiles with industrial application potential
- Microbial synthesis technology and industrial development of bio-based platform chemicals
- Microbial synthesis of plant-derived compounds
Work Experience
- 2006-2008 - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology - Assistant Researcher
- 2010-2016 - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology - Associate Researcher, Young Research Group Leader
- 2016- - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology - Researcher, Research Group Leader
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2001-09--2006-06 PhD: Shandong University
- 2008-2010 Postdoctoral: Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
- 2008-2010 Postdoctoral: Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Publications
- One major facilitator superfamily transporter is responsible for propionic acid tolerance in Pseudomonas putida KT2440, Ma C, Mu QX, Xue YB, Xue YF, Yu B*, Ma YH*, 2020
- Bio-production of high-purity propionate by engineering L-threonine degradation pathway in Pseudomonas putida, Ma C, Mu QX, Wang L, Shi YN, Zhu LF, Zhang SS, Xue YF, Tao Y, Ma YH*, Yu B*, 2020
- Enhanced ε-poly-L-lysine production by the synergistic effect of ε-poly-L-lysine synthetase overexpression and citrate in Streptomyces albulus, Wang AX, Tian WZ, Cheng L, Xu YQ, Wang XW, Qin JY, Yu B, 2020
- Biocatalytic production of D-p-hydroxyphenylglycine by optimizing protein expression and cell wall engineering in Escherichia coli, Liu Y, Zhu LF, Qi WP, Yu B*, 2019
- Biodetoxification of fungal mycotoxins zearalenone by engineered probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri with surface-displayed lactonohydrolase, Liu FX, Malaphan M, Xing FG, Yu B*, 2019
- A tight cold-inducible switch built by coupling thermosensitive transcriptional and proteolytic regulatory parts, Zheng Y#, Meng FK#, Zhu ZH, Wei WJ, Sun Z, Chen JC, Yu B*, Lou CB*, Chen GQ*, 2019
- Elucidating the role and regulation of a lactate permease as lactate transporter in Bacillus coagulans DSM1, Wang Y, Zhang CL, Liu GX, Ju JS, Yu B*, Wang LM*, 2019
- Biotechnological routes for transglutaminase production: recent achievements, perspectives and limits, Wang LM*, Yu B, Wang RX, Xie JC, 2018
- Reconstructing biosynthetic pathway of the plant-derived cancer chemopreventive-precursor glucoraphanin in Escherichia coli, Yang H, Liu FX, Li Y*, Yu B*, 2018
- Biosynthesis of the high-value plant secondary product benzyl isothiocyanate via functional expression of multiple heterologous enzymes in E. coli, Liu FX, Yang H, Wang LM, Yu B*, 2016
- Efficient production of enantiomerically pure D-phenyllactate from phenylpyruvate by structure-guided design of an engineered D-lactate dehydrogenase, Wang M#, Zhu LF#, Xu XL, Wang LM, Yin RC*, Yu B*, 2016
- Diammonium phosphate stimulates transcription of L-lactate dehydrogenase leading to increased L-lactate production in the thermotolerant Bacillus coagulans strain, Sun LF, Li YF, Wang LM, Wang YP, Yu B*, 2016
- Efficient biodegradation of chlorophenols in aqueous phase by magnetically immobilized aniline-degrading Rhodococcus rhodochrous strain, Hou JF, Liu FX, Wu N, Ju JS, Yu B*, 2016
- Fermentative production of enantiomerically pure S-1,2-propanediol from glucose by engineered E. coli strain, Zhu LF#, Guan XC#, Xie NZ, Wang LM, Yu B*, Ma YH, 2016
- NADP+-preferring D-lactate dehydrogenase from Sporolactobacillus inulinus, Zhu LF, Xu XL, Wang LM, Dong H*, Yu B*, Ma YH, 2015
- Efficient production of reuterin from glycerol by magnetically immobilized Lactobacillus reuterin, Liu FX, Yu B*, 2015
- Major role of NAD-dependent lactate dehydrogenases in high optically pure L-lactic acid production by thermophilic Bacillus coagulans, Wang LM#, Cai YM#, Zhu LF, Guo HL, Yu B*, 2014
- Bacillus sp. strain P38: an efficient producer of L-lactate from cellulosic hydrolysate, with high tolerance for 2-furfural, Peng LL, Wang LM, Che CC, Yang G, Yu B*, Ma YH, 2013
- Efficient production of polymer-grade D-lactate by Sporolactobacillus laevolacticus DSM442 with agricultural waste cottonseed as the sole nitrogen source, Li Y, Wang LM, Ju JS, Yu B*, Ma YH, 2013
- 聚合级L-乳酸的非粮生物质发酵研究进展, 于波*,曾艳,姜旭,王丽敏,马延和, 2013