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Tao Yu
Life Science
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangdong
Language: Chinese, English
Synthetic Biology
Metabolic Engineering
Cell Biology
Protein Engineering
Systems Biology
Microbiology
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Genetic Engineering
Biotransformation
Areas of Focus
- Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering
Work Experience
- 2019-09 to Present - Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Researcher
- 2015-01 to 2019-08 - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2008-09 to 2014-09 Ph.D.: Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2004-09 to 2008-06 Bachelor's: Shandong University
Publications
- Metabolic engineering of yeast for the production of carbohydrate-derived foods and chemicals from C1–3 molecules, Corresponding Author, 2023
- A novel CRISPR/Cas9 system with high genomic editing efficiency and recyclable auxotrophic selective marker for multiple-step metabolic rewriting in Pichia pastoris, Corresponding Author, 2023
- A fungal NRPS-PKS enzyme catalyses the formation of the flavonoid naringenin, Co-author, 2022
- Upcycling CO2 into energy-rich long-chain compounds via electrochemical and metabolic engineering, Corresponding Author, 2022
- Metabolic reconfiguration enables synthetic reductive metabolism in yeast, Corresponding Author, 2022
- Developing C_(1)-based metabolic network in methylotrophy for biotransformation, 5th Author, 2022
- Insight into the tannic acid-based modular assembly strategy on inorganic-biological hybrid systems: material suitability, loading effect and biocompatibility study., 1st Author, 2021
- Insight into the tannic acid-based modular-assembly strategy based on inorganic-biological hybrid systems: a material suitability, loading effect, and biocompatibility study, 8th Author, 2021
- Construction of synthetic life forms with genetic materials comprising unnatural nucleic acids, 9th Author, 2021
- Strategies and challenges for metabolic rewiring, 1st Author, 2019
- Rewiring carbon metabolism in yeast for high level production of aromatic chemicals, 2nd Author, 2019
- Reprogramming Yeast Metabolism from Alcoholic Fermentation to Lipogenesis, 1st Author, 2018
- Establishing very long-chain fatty alcohol and wax ester biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 2nd Author, 2017
- Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for production of very long chain fatty acid-derived chemicals, 1st Author, 2017
- Profiling human protein degradome delineates cellular responses to proteasomal inhibition and reveals a feedback mechanism in regulating proteasome homeostasis, 1st Author, 2014
