Guest Editors:
Jin Liu, PhD, Peking University, China
Yandu Lu, PhD, Hainan University, China
Yantao Li, PhD, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, United States of America
Submission Status: Closed
is calling for submissions to our new collection on Transforming CO2 to Algal lipids and specialty compounds. Algae, particularly microalgae, have been considered as ideal light-driven cell factories, because of the high photosynthesis efficiency, fast growth, ease of cultivation, strong environmental adaptability, non-competition for arable land, etc. In addition to synthesizing storage lipids, many algae are able to transform the photosynthetically fixed CO2 to diverse value-added products. The photoautotrophic production by algae has been receiving increasing interest in research.
Dr. Jin LIU is the Principal Investigator of Laboratory for Algae Biotechnology & Innovation at Peking University, a multidisciplinary laboratory denoted to unveil the secrets of algae for basic research and applied applications by means of the state-of-the-art technologies. His research interests focus on lipid metabolism, biosynthesis of value-added products, and algal synthetic biology. Since 2015, Dr. LIU has published over 50 high-quality peer-reviewed articles, five book chapters and one edited book. As PI and Co-PI, Dr. LIU has been awarded many grants from National Science Foundation of China, National Key R&D Program of China, SPURC etc. He is currently an Associate Editor of Algal Research.
Dr. Yandu Lu is a Professor at State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea and School of Oceanology, Hainan University and works on microalgae to address the question of emergent properties in which cells and organisms are more than the simple sum of their parts so that molecular biology is truly ‘biology’. He has become interested in synthetic biology - the application of genome editing to explain nature and improve nature. Over the years, the context of his interest in gene regulation, enzyme characterization, trait optimization, and value-added compound production has involved biosynthetic pathway, photosynthesis, stress response, and now artificial photosynthetic cells.
Dr. Yantao Li received his B.S. from Nanjing University, P.R. China and Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong and subsequently at the Department of Applied Biological Sciences at Arizona State University, and an Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University. Beginning in 2012 Dr. Li served as an Assistant Professor for the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) at the University System of Maryland and now is an Associate Professor at the same institute. Dr. Li’s research interest is in the area of microalgal biology and biotechnology, with the goal to understand lipid synthesis, turnover, and lipid body biogenesis in microalgae, to rationally engineer algae for biofuel and high-value products such as carotenoids and omega-3 fatty acids, and to biochemically convert algal feedstock into biofuels.