CAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering, affiliated to Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS), were founded in April, 2013. The orientation of key laboratory is applied basic research in microbial biotechnology, focusing on industrial microbial physiology and regulation of metabolism, the reconstruction and optimization of biosynthesis pathway and physiological adaptation functionalities. Its three research directions are molecular genetics and efficient genetic manipulation systems, molecular enzyme engineering and new biocatalytic process, and molecular physiology and advanced metabolic engineering. Its objectives focus on the development of new technologies and new methods towards microbial physiological engineering and metabolic engineering, developing the next generation of strains and whole-cell catalysts with predominate industrial performance.
Director: Yin LI
Principal Investigators:
Yin LI Molecular Physiology and Systems Biotechnology
Tingyi WEN Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology of Industrial Microbes
Shuangyan TANG Protein Engineering and Microbial Enzyme Applications
Yong TAO Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Biocatalyst Development
Borun ZHANG Molecular Genetics and Breeding of Yeast
Jiuyuan Ding Microbial Metabolic Regulation and Metabolic Engineering
Chunbo LOU Synthetic Biology Tools for Industrial Microbiology
Kun ZHU Metabolism of Bacteria Fatty Acid and its Derivatives