Liu, Zihe

Date:2020-04-11

NameZihe Liu

TitleAssociate Professor

E-mailzihe@mail.buct.edu.cn

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Education background:

2002-2006, Undergraduate of Tianjin University. 
2006-2008, Master student of Tianjin University. 

2008-2012, PhD student of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. 


Work experience :

2013-2017, Scientist I of Agency for Science, and Technology and Research, Singapore.
2017 to now, Associate Professor of Beijing University of Chemical Technology.


Academic title: Associate Professor


Research areas: Synthetic biology, Metabolic Engineering, Systems Biology


Honors and awards:

2017      Biosystems Design 3.0 best poster awards

2011      FEBS Youth Travel Fund

2010      FEBS Gothenburg Fund

2019      Nils Pihlblads resestipendium


Research projects: Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering of yeast S. cerevisiae for production of fuels, chemicals and natural products


Representative works:

[1] Liu Z, Wang K, Chen Y, Tan T#, NJ#. Third-generation biorefineries as the means to produce fuels and chemicals from CO2. Nature Catal., 2020, 3: 274-288. (IF=)

[2] Zhang Y, Wang J, Wang Z, Zhang Y, Shi S, NJ, Liu Z#. A gRNA-tRNA array for CRISPR-Cas9 based rapid multiplexed genome editing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature Commun., 2019, 10: 1053. (IF=11.878)

[3] Dai Z, Lee A, Roberts S, Sysoeva T, Huang S, Dzuricky M, Yang X, Liu Z, Chikoti A, YL#. Versatile biomanufacturing through stimulus responsive cell-material feedback. Nature Chem. Biol., 2019, 15: 1017. (IF=12.154)

[4] Liu Z, Zhang Y, NJ#. Synthetic biology of yeast. Biochemistry, 2019, 58: 1511-1520. (IF=2.952)

[5] Dong Y, Mu Y, Xie Y, Zhang Y, Han Y, Zhou Y, Wang W, Liu Z, Wu M, Wang H, Pan M, Xu N, Xu CQ, Yang M, Fan S, Deng H, Tan T, Liu X, Liu L, Li J, Wasng J, Fang X, Feng Y#. Structural basis of ubiquitin modification by the Legionella effector SdeA. Nature, 2018, 557: 674-678. (IF=43.07)

[6] Zhang Y, NJ, Liu Z#. Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for production of fatty acid-derived hydrocarbons. Biotechnol. Bioeng., 2018, 11: 2139-2147. (IF=4.26)

[7] Zhang Y, NJ, Liu Z#. Engineering yeast metabolism for production of terpenoids for use as perfume ingredients, pharmaceuticals and biofuels. FEMS Yeast Res., 2017, 17: fox080 (IF=2.458)

[8] Liu Z, Liang Y, Ang EL#, ZH#. The New Era of Genome Integration – Simply Cut and Paste! ACS Syn. Biol., 2017, 6, 601−609. (IF=5.571)

[9] Liang J*, Liu Z*, Ang EL#, ZH#. Twin-primer non-enzymatic DNA assembly: an efficient and accurate multi-part DNA assembly method. Nucleic Acids Res., 2017, 45: e94. (IF=11.147)


Admission requirements:

Honest, innovative and hard working