Professor Youming Zhang is the director of the Department of Engineering Biology, Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Director of recombineering and genome manipulation center, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Member of German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Member of Academia Europaea. The expert of the national key talent program.
Professor Zhang has been devoted to the development and application of DNA/genome-editing technology for more than 30 years. Zhang Youming has published more than 140 SCI papers until now, 11 of which were published on Nature and its series journals. The total impact factors reach more than 1030, the total citations are more than 12450 times, and H index is 53. Professor Zhang was named as Elsevier's “Highly Cited Scholar in China” from 2018 to 2020. He has obtained more than 26 issued patents, including 11 international invention patents. There are more than 30 patents under application.
Email: ym.zhang1@siat.ac.cn
Link: http://people.ucas.edu.cn/~YoumingZhang
Publications/Patents (recent)
Zhong L, Diao X, Zhang N, Li F, Zhou H, Chen H, Bai X, Ren X, Zhang Y*, Wu D*, and Bian X*. Engineering and elucidation of the lipoinitiation process in nonribosomal peptide biosynthesis. Nature Communications. 2021 Jan 12; 12(1): 296.doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20548-8.
Wang H, Li Z, Jia R, Hou Y, Yin J, Bian X, Li A, Müller R, Stewart A F*, Fu J*, and Zhang Y*. RecET direct cloning and Redαβrecombineering of biosynthetic gene clusters, large operons or single genes for heterologous expression. Nature Protocols. 2016/6, 1:175–1790.
Kolinko I, Lohße A, Borg S, Raschdorf O, Jogler C, Tu Q, Pósfai M, Tompa E, Plitzko JM, Brachmann A, Wanner G, Müller R, Zhang Y* & Schüler D*. Biosynthesis of magnetic nanostructures in a foreign organism by transfer of bacterial magnetosome gene transfer. Nature Nanotechnology. 2014 Mar; 9(3):193-7.
Fu J, Bian X, Hu S , Wang H, Huang F, Seibert PM, Plaza A, Xia L, Müller R*, Stewart AF* and Zhang Y*.Full-length RecE enhances linear-linear homologous recombination and facilitates direct cloning for bioprospecting. Nature Biotechnology. 2012 May; 30(5):440-446.
Zhang Y, Muyrers JP, Testa G and Stewart AF. DNA cloning by homologous recombination in Escherichia coli. Nature Biotechnology. 2000 Dec;18(12):1314-7.
Zhang Y, Buchholz F, Muyrers JP, Stewart AF. A new logic for DNA engineering using recombination in Escherichia coli. Nature Genetics. 1998 Oct;20(2):123-8.