Youming Zhang#
| Membership Number: | 4908 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013, 04 - present Director of Shandong University–Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology
- 2013Director of State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
- 2001, 06 - 2013, 03 Chief Scientific Officer, Gene Bridges GmbH, Heidelberg/Dresden/Saarbrücken, Germany
- 1997, 01 - 2000, 05 EMBO Long Term Fellowship/Postdoc, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1995, 01 - 1996, 12 Postdoc, Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1990, 05 - 1994, 12 Ph.D. student, Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1988, 08 - 1990, 04 Research Assistant, Department of Molecular Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Genome-mining
- Synthetic biotechnology
- Natural product biosynthesis
- Genome editing
- Microbial natural products
- Red/ET DNA recombineering
Honours and Awards
- 2018 selected as Elsevier "Chinese Most Cited Researchers"
- 2013 selected as National "Thousand People Plan" expert (the Recruitment Program of Global Experts)
- 2007 selected as "Furong Scholar" in Hunan Province, China
- 1995 SUMMA CUM LAUDE award for a Doctor Degree, University of Heidelberg
