Areas of Focus
- Engineering one carbon metabolism in industrial microbes
- Metabolic engineering for renewable carbon resource utilization
Work Experience
- 2019-2023 - National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2023-present - Xiamen University - Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2010-2014 B.S. in Biological Sciences: China Agriculture University
- 2014-2019 Ph.D. in Biology: Tsinghua University
- Developed CRISPR/Cas9 tools in Halomonas sp.
Publications
- Muconic acid production from glucose and xylose in Pseudomonas putida via evolution and metabolic engineering., Chen Ling, George L. Peabody, Davinia Salvachúa, Young-Mo Kim, Colin M. Kneucker, Christopher H. Calvey, Michela A. Monninger, Nathalie Munoz Munoz, Brenton C. Poirier, Kelsey J. Ramirez, Peter C. St. John, Sean P. Woodworth, Jon K. Magnuson, Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson, Adam M. Guss*, Christopher W. Johnson* & Gregg T. Beckham*., 2022
- Engineering NADH/NAD+ ratio in Halomonas bluephagenesis for enhanced production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)., Chen Ling, Guan-Qing Qiao, Bo-Wen Shuai, Karel Olavarria, Jin Yin, Rui-Juan Xiang, Kun-Nan Song, Yun-Hao Shen, Yingying Guo*, Guo-Qiang Chen*., 2018
- Engineering self-flocculating Halomonas campaniensis for wastewaterless open and continuous fermentation., Chen Ling#, Guan-Qing Qiao#, Bo-Wen Shuai#, Kun-Nan Song, Wen-Xi Yao, Xiao-Ran Jiang*, Guo-Qiang Chen*., 2019
- Biodegradable and reprocessable thermosets from microbially-produced unsaturated polyhydroxyalkanoates., Robin Cywar#, Chen Ling#, Ryan Clarke, Donghyun Kim, Colin Kneucker, Davinia Salvachúa, Shu Xu, Meltem Urgun Demirtas, Bennett Addison, Nicholas Rorrer, Christopher W. Johnson, Robert Allen, Eugene Y.-X. Chen*, Gregg T. Beckham*.
- Microbial engineering for easy downstream processing., Ying Wang, Chen Ling, Yong Chen, Xiao-Ran Jiang, Guo-Qiang Chen*., 2019
- CRISPR/Cas9 editing genome of extremophile Halomonas spp., Qin Qin, Chen Ling, Yiqing Zhao, Tian Yang, Jin Yin, Yingying Guo*, Guo-Qiang Chen*., 2018
- Construction of Halomonas bluephagenesis capable of high cell density growth for efficient PHA production., Yilin Ren, Chen Ling, Ivan Hajnal, Qiong Wu, Guo-Qiang Chen*., 2018
- A seawater-based open and continuous process for polyhydroxyalkanoates production by recombinant Halomonas campaniensis LS21 grown in mixed substrates., Haitao Yue, Chen Ling, Tao Yang, Xiangbin Chen, Yuling Chen, Haiteng Deng, Qiong Wu, Jinchun Chen, Guo-Qiang Chen*., 2014
Awards
- Key Contributor Award (2023): National Bioenergy Center, NREL
- Beijing Outstanding Graduate (2019)