2025
Jan 2025 - Anqi gave an invited talk at the 2025 Genomic Wave Symposium at SIO! Amazing job, Anqi!
Jan 2025 - Anqi, Sheng, and Kaibiao's groundbreaking work on using microbial cell factories to investigate the evolution of cannonical strigolactones in seed plants in published in Science. A big thank you to our JOSE news team for their enthusiastic coverage of this achievement. Congratulations to the entire team, and a special thanks to our WONDERFUL collaborators - Dave, Annalise, Xiaonan, Kaori, Nitzan, Yui, Michelle, and Malathy - for their contributions to this incredible milestone!
Jan 2025 - Ari and Vinh joined Li Lab! Welcome, Ari and Vinh!
Jan 2025 - Happy New Year! Our entire group participated in 2025 SIMB-NP, where Shanhui, Anqi, Xiaoxuan, and Kaibiao gave excellent poster presentations on their ongoing projects. We shared quite a bit of unpublished data, fostering transparent and open-minded scientific discussions. Yanran also gave a talk highlighting Sheng, Kaibiao, and Anqi's work on strigolactones. A special congratulations to Anqi for winning 1st prize in the poster competition - out of more than 100 posters! The award even came with a big fat check! Great job, everyone, and especially Anqi!
Jan 2025 - Anqi, Sheng, and Kaibiao's groundbreaking work on using microbial cell factories to investigate the evolution of cannonical strigolactones in seed plants in published in Science. A big thank you to our JOSE news team for their enthusiastic coverage of this achievement. Congratulations to the entire team, and a special thanks to our WONDERFUL collaborators - Dave, Annalise, Xiaonan, Kaori, Nitzan, Yui, Michelle, and Malathy - for their contributions to this incredible milestone!
Jan 2025 - Ari and Vinh joined Li Lab! Welcome, Ari and Vinh!
Jan 2025 - Happy New Year! Our entire group participated in 2025 SIMB-NP, where Shanhui, Anqi, Xiaoxuan, and Kaibiao gave excellent poster presentations on their ongoing projects. We shared quite a bit of unpublished data, fostering transparent and open-minded scientific discussions. Yanran also gave a talk highlighting Sheng, Kaibiao, and Anqi's work on strigolactones. A special congratulations to Anqi for winning 1st prize in the poster competition - out of more than 100 posters! The award even came with a big fat check! Great job, everyone, and especially Anqi!
2024
Nov 2024 - AIChE took place in San Diego, and the Li Lab is having a fantastic time at the convention center! Anqi delivered an oral presentation, while Shanhui, Xiaoxuan, and Kaibiao each presented a poster talk. Additionally, Shanhui represented the Li Lab with a poster at the department reception on Monday night. Good job, everyone!!
Sep 2024 - Anqi gave an invited talk at the 2024 SoCal Plant Biology Symposium! Good job, Anqi!
Sep 2024 - Anqi has started her internship at Antheia, where she’ll gain valuable experience in industrial biomanufacturing and R&D. A big thank you to NSF for the support in fostering the growth of the next generation of talented researchers and workforce!
Sep 2024 - Our strigolactone collaborator Prof. Xiaonan Xie visited our lab and will be with us for five months!
Sep 2024 - Tiffany’s final PhD work on the potential of using PGIP as a fungal control agent has been accepted and published in Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology! Tiffany dedicated tremendous effort to developing the plant assays, and all her hard work has paid off. Congratulations, Tiffany!
June 2024 - Alaire and Kyle joined Li Lab! Welcome, Alaire and Kyle!
June 2024 - Xiaoxuan and Rongbin's review on harnessing plant immunity to investigate plant secondary metabolism has been accepted in Current Opinion in Biotechnology! Congratulations, Xiaoxuan and Rongbin!
April 2024 - Yanran visited DTU Biosustain, delivered a seminar talk, and served on Samuel Alan Bradley's committee for his PhD defense. Amazing job, and congratulations, Dr. Bradley!
Mar 2024 - Yangyi and Tran joined Li Lab! Welcome, Yangyi and Tran!
Mar 2024 - Yanran delivered a talk at Marine NP GRC discussing the utilization of microbial cell factory to investigate strigolactone biosynthesis. Thanks for all the wonderful researchers in Li Lab that contribute to this talk.
Feb 2024 - For the very first time, Kaibiao was able to grow peach seedling! We do not know scientifically how important this experiment will be, but it is super fun to work with plants!
Feb 2024 - Our collaborator Prof. Pieter Dorrestein kindly donate a plant growth chamber to SME204 to enlarge our capacity on plant growth. Thanks very much, Pieter!
Feb 2024 - We had a happy Sunday group get together to farewell Rongbin and celebrate Chinese New Year! May Dragon Year a great one for everyone!
Sep 2024 - Anqi gave an invited talk at the 2024 SoCal Plant Biology Symposium! Good job, Anqi!
Sep 2024 - Anqi has started her internship at Antheia, where she’ll gain valuable experience in industrial biomanufacturing and R&D. A big thank you to NSF for the support in fostering the growth of the next generation of talented researchers and workforce!
Sep 2024 - Our strigolactone collaborator Prof. Xiaonan Xie visited our lab and will be with us for five months!
Sep 2024 - Tiffany’s final PhD work on the potential of using PGIP as a fungal control agent has been accepted and published in Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology! Tiffany dedicated tremendous effort to developing the plant assays, and all her hard work has paid off. Congratulations, Tiffany!
June 2024 - Alaire and Kyle joined Li Lab! Welcome, Alaire and Kyle!
June 2024 - Xiaoxuan and Rongbin's review on harnessing plant immunity to investigate plant secondary metabolism has been accepted in Current Opinion in Biotechnology! Congratulations, Xiaoxuan and Rongbin!
April 2024 - Yanran visited DTU Biosustain, delivered a seminar talk, and served on Samuel Alan Bradley's committee for his PhD defense. Amazing job, and congratulations, Dr. Bradley!
Mar 2024 - Yangyi and Tran joined Li Lab! Welcome, Yangyi and Tran!
Mar 2024 - Yanran delivered a talk at Marine NP GRC discussing the utilization of microbial cell factory to investigate strigolactone biosynthesis. Thanks for all the wonderful researchers in Li Lab that contribute to this talk.
Feb 2024 - For the very first time, Kaibiao was able to grow peach seedling! We do not know scientifically how important this experiment will be, but it is super fun to work with plants!
Feb 2024 - Our collaborator Prof. Pieter Dorrestein kindly donate a plant growth chamber to SME204 to enlarge our capacity on plant growth. Thanks very much, Pieter!
Feb 2024 - We had a happy Sunday group get together to farewell Rongbin and celebrate Chinese New Year! May Dragon Year a great one for everyone!
2023
Dec 2023 - We had a joint holiday party with the Chen group and Happy Holidays, everyday!
Nov 2023 - Anqi gave a poster presentation & a flash talk on "An efficient bacterium-yeast consortium for the discovery of 16-hydroxyl-carlactonoic acid as a potential shoot branching inhibitor in seed plants"; and Shanhui gave a talk on "Establishment of a phytosteroid-producing yeast platform to characterize brassinosteroid biosynthesis" at Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering - 2023 CSHL Meeting. Good job!
Nov 2023 - Yanran delivered an invited talk at AICHE annual conference on Anqi's most recent story using microbial consortium to uncover strigolactones of new functions. This exciting piece of work is right now ongoing in collaboration with Prof. Xiaonan Xie from Utsunomiya University and my previous colleague Prof. David Nelson from UCR.
Oct 2023 - Yen just joined Li Lab! Welcome, Yen!
Oct 2023 - We moved our lab to UCSD! Bravo, the Li Lab crews for making the move so smoothly without Yanran on site! Thanks everyone! Great job and so proud of you all!
July 2023 - It's official! Yanran is now Associate Professor. Congratulations!
June 2023 - Tiffany and Shanhui participated in the graduate commencement. Too bad Yanran cannot join due to the sabbatical leave. But hey, everyone else are there and all the important ones are there! Congratulations again, Tiffany and Shanhui! So proud of you two!
June 2023 - Aaron graduated from UCR for a new job. Good luck with everything, Aaron!
June 2023 - Yanran delivered a talk at SynBio GRC discussing the utilization of microbial cell factory to elucidate plant secondary metabolism. Thanks for all the wonderful researchers in Li Lab that contribute to this talk.
June 2023 - Sheng and Anqi's work in collaboration with our wonderful collaborators Prof. Takahito Nomura and Prof. Xiaonan Xie on the discovery of a strigol synthase in peach is published in New Phytologist. Congratulations!
March 2023 - Both Xiaoxuan and Aaron were offered an internship at Genentech and Kartos Therapeutics in the Bay Area. Congratulations!
March 2023 - The second part of Shanhui's PhD study was just accepted in ACS SynBio. Congratulations and Good Job!
Happy New Year!
Nov 2023 - Anqi gave a poster presentation & a flash talk on "An efficient bacterium-yeast consortium for the discovery of 16-hydroxyl-carlactonoic acid as a potential shoot branching inhibitor in seed plants"; and Shanhui gave a talk on "Establishment of a phytosteroid-producing yeast platform to characterize brassinosteroid biosynthesis" at Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering - 2023 CSHL Meeting. Good job!
Nov 2023 - Yanran delivered an invited talk at AICHE annual conference on Anqi's most recent story using microbial consortium to uncover strigolactones of new functions. This exciting piece of work is right now ongoing in collaboration with Prof. Xiaonan Xie from Utsunomiya University and my previous colleague Prof. David Nelson from UCR.
Oct 2023 - Yen just joined Li Lab! Welcome, Yen!
Oct 2023 - We moved our lab to UCSD! Bravo, the Li Lab crews for making the move so smoothly without Yanran on site! Thanks everyone! Great job and so proud of you all!
July 2023 - It's official! Yanran is now Associate Professor. Congratulations!
June 2023 - Tiffany and Shanhui participated in the graduate commencement. Too bad Yanran cannot join due to the sabbatical leave. But hey, everyone else are there and all the important ones are there! Congratulations again, Tiffany and Shanhui! So proud of you two!
June 2023 - Aaron graduated from UCR for a new job. Good luck with everything, Aaron!
June 2023 - Yanran delivered a talk at SynBio GRC discussing the utilization of microbial cell factory to elucidate plant secondary metabolism. Thanks for all the wonderful researchers in Li Lab that contribute to this talk.
June 2023 - Sheng and Anqi's work in collaboration with our wonderful collaborators Prof. Takahito Nomura and Prof. Xiaonan Xie on the discovery of a strigol synthase in peach is published in New Phytologist. Congratulations!
March 2023 - Both Xiaoxuan and Aaron were offered an internship at Genentech and Kartos Therapeutics in the Bay Area. Congratulations!
March 2023 - The second part of Shanhui's PhD study was just accepted in ACS SynBio. Congratulations and Good Job!
Happy New Year!
2022
Dec 2022 - Tiffany gave a beautiful defense talk and now she is officially Dr. Chiu. Congratulations, Dr. Chiu!
Dec 2022 - Shanhui delivered a wonderful defense talk and now she is officially Dr. Xu. Congratulations, Dr. Xu!
Nov 2022 - Anqi and Xiaoxuan participated Plant3D annual retreat and Anqi resented our engineering efforts on the microbial bioproduction on stiroglactones with Annalise from our collaborator Prof. David Nelson's group. Good Job, girls!
Nov 2022 - Shanhui and Anqi presented our engineering efforts on the microbial bioproduction on phytosterols and stiroglactones at 2022 AICHE annual meeting. Good Job!
Oct 2022 - Dr. Kaibiao Wang joined Li Lab to continue our exploration tour on SL biosynthesis and evolution. Welcome, Kaibiao!
Aug 2022 - Dr. Sheng Wu left Li Lab for a faculty position at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Good luck with everything, Sheng!
July 2021 - Yanran received the 2022 NSF CAREER Award! Thanks for the support for us to develop tools to better engineer and elucidate SL biosynthesis.
June 2022 - Xiaoxuan passed her ATC exam and now is a PhD candidate. Congratulations!
June 2022 - Tiffany and Theo's review article is accepted for publication in Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. Congratulations!
May 2021 - Shanhui and Sheng contributed a chapter about "Investigating Plant Biosynthetic Pathways Using Heterologous Gene Expression: Yeast as a Heterologous Host" on Engineering Natural Product Biosynthesis. Congratulations!
May 2021 - Dr. Théo Poucet left Li Lab for a new job. Good luck with everything, Theo!
March 2022 - Shanhui and Tiffany gave a poster presentation at the ACS Spring 2022. Sheng gave a virtual oral presentation at the ACS Spring 2022. Good Job!
Happy New Year!
Dec 2022 - Shanhui delivered a wonderful defense talk and now she is officially Dr. Xu. Congratulations, Dr. Xu!
Nov 2022 - Anqi and Xiaoxuan participated Plant3D annual retreat and Anqi resented our engineering efforts on the microbial bioproduction on stiroglactones with Annalise from our collaborator Prof. David Nelson's group. Good Job, girls!
Nov 2022 - Shanhui and Anqi presented our engineering efforts on the microbial bioproduction on phytosterols and stiroglactones at 2022 AICHE annual meeting. Good Job!
Oct 2022 - Dr. Kaibiao Wang joined Li Lab to continue our exploration tour on SL biosynthesis and evolution. Welcome, Kaibiao!
Aug 2022 - Dr. Sheng Wu left Li Lab for a faculty position at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Good luck with everything, Sheng!
July 2021 - Yanran received the 2022 NSF CAREER Award! Thanks for the support for us to develop tools to better engineer and elucidate SL biosynthesis.
June 2022 - Xiaoxuan passed her ATC exam and now is a PhD candidate. Congratulations!
June 2022 - Tiffany and Theo's review article is accepted for publication in Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. Congratulations!
May 2021 - Shanhui and Sheng contributed a chapter about "Investigating Plant Biosynthetic Pathways Using Heterologous Gene Expression: Yeast as a Heterologous Host" on Engineering Natural Product Biosynthesis. Congratulations!
May 2021 - Dr. Théo Poucet left Li Lab for a new job. Good luck with everything, Theo!
March 2022 - Shanhui and Tiffany gave a poster presentation at the ACS Spring 2022. Sheng gave a virtual oral presentation at the ACS Spring 2022. Good Job!
Happy New Year!
2021
Sep 2021 - Sheng's research article on SL bioproduction using microbial consortium, in collaborating with Zhou Lab from NUS is published in Sicence Advances! This work is highlighted in UCR news, and covered in a number of news outlet. Congratulations, Sheng, Xiaoqiang, Anqi, and Alex! Good job and nice work!
Aug 2021 - We had our first official lab gathering at the beautiful Bolboa Park! It was a blast!
July 2021 - Tiffany's work is highlighted in UCR news!
May 2021 - Tiffany's first research article on PGIP engineering is accepted in Biotechnology and Bioengineering! Congratulations, Tiffany! Good job and nice work!
May 2021 - Curtis, who joined Li Lab as a high school intern since 2018 summer, just accepted the offer from Cornell Engineering. Curtis also got offers from many prestigious institutes including UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Berkely, Carnegie Mellon. Congratulations, Curtis!
Apr 2021 - Dr. Théo Poucet joined Li Lab! Welcome!
March 2020 - Anqi's review article in collaboration with Dr. Kang Zhou is accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Plant Biology. Congratulations!
Jan 2021 - Dr. Rongbin Hu joined Li Lab! Welcome!
Happy New Year!
Aug 2021 - We had our first official lab gathering at the beautiful Bolboa Park! It was a blast!
July 2021 - Tiffany's work is highlighted in UCR news!
May 2021 - Tiffany's first research article on PGIP engineering is accepted in Biotechnology and Bioengineering! Congratulations, Tiffany! Good job and nice work!
May 2021 - Curtis, who joined Li Lab as a high school intern since 2018 summer, just accepted the offer from Cornell Engineering. Curtis also got offers from many prestigious institutes including UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Berkely, Carnegie Mellon. Congratulations, Curtis!
Apr 2021 - Dr. Théo Poucet joined Li Lab! Welcome!
March 2020 - Anqi's review article in collaboration with Dr. Kang Zhou is accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Plant Biology. Congratulations!
Jan 2021 - Dr. Rongbin Hu joined Li Lab! Welcome!
Happy New Year!
2020
Nov 2020 - Xiaoxuan Teng joined Li Lab! Welcome!
Oct 2020 - Shanhui's first research article is accepted in ACS Synthetic Biology! Congratulations, Shanhui! Good job and nice work!
Oct 2020 - Yanran received the 2020 NIH Director's New Innovator Award! Thanks for the support for us to develop alternative strategies to explore plant secondary metabolism.
Jul 2020 - Shanhui's review article on sterol biosynthesis was accepted for publication in Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. Congratulations!
May 2020 - Yanran was interviewed by Ms. Holly Ober in her report "Coveting yeast? It's much more than a loaf of bread".
March 2020 - Anqi is selected for the Plants3D National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program. Congratulations, Anqi!
Feb 2020 - Group celebrate Shanhui's birthday! Happy Birthday, Shanhui!
Feb 2020 - Curtis won the gold medal in the regional competition of California High School Science Fair!! Congratulations, Curtis!!
Happy New Year!
Oct 2020 - Shanhui's first research article is accepted in ACS Synthetic Biology! Congratulations, Shanhui! Good job and nice work!
Oct 2020 - Yanran received the 2020 NIH Director's New Innovator Award! Thanks for the support for us to develop alternative strategies to explore plant secondary metabolism.
Jul 2020 - Shanhui's review article on sterol biosynthesis was accepted for publication in Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. Congratulations!
May 2020 - Yanran was interviewed by Ms. Holly Ober in her report "Coveting yeast? It's much more than a loaf of bread".
March 2020 - Anqi is selected for the Plants3D National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program. Congratulations, Anqi!
Feb 2020 - Group celebrate Shanhui's birthday! Happy Birthday, Shanhui!
Feb 2020 - Curtis won the gold medal in the regional competition of California High School Science Fair!! Congratulations, Curtis!!
Happy New Year!
2019
Oct 2019 - Tiffany is awarded for the Best Poster Award at GGB symposium. Congratulations, Tiffany!
Sep 2019 - The Plants-3D training program lead by Prof. Julia Bailey-Serres is officially funded by NSF!! Congratulations!! Yanran is so much honored and delighted to be one of the early participants to this program that is engaged in training the next generation plant scientists.
Sep 2019 - Our proposal on yeast-production of anticancer phytosteroids is recommended to be funded by the UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee Faculty Seed Grant. Thanks for the support!
Aug 2019 - Dr. Sheng Wu joined Li Lab! Welcome!
July 2019 - Shanhui gave a poster presentation at the 2019 SIMB Annual Exhibition and Meeting.
July 2019 - Yanran gave an invited talk at the 2019 SIMB Annual Exhibition and Meeting. Thanks to session chairs Drs. Sijin Li and Sudeep Agarwala for the invitation!
May 2019 - Yanran get such a pleasant surprise on her birthday from the students! Thank you all!!
Apr 2019 - Curtis won the gold medal in the regional competition of California High School Science Fair!! Congratulations, Curtis!!
Jan 2019 - Anqi Zhou and Alex officially joined Li Lab! Welcome, Anqi and Alex!
Jan 2019 - Sajida is going back to Pakistan. Best luck to your PhD study, Sajida!
Happy New Year!
Sep 2019 - The Plants-3D training program lead by Prof. Julia Bailey-Serres is officially funded by NSF!! Congratulations!! Yanran is so much honored and delighted to be one of the early participants to this program that is engaged in training the next generation plant scientists.
Sep 2019 - Our proposal on yeast-production of anticancer phytosteroids is recommended to be funded by the UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee Faculty Seed Grant. Thanks for the support!
Aug 2019 - Dr. Sheng Wu joined Li Lab! Welcome!
July 2019 - Shanhui gave a poster presentation at the 2019 SIMB Annual Exhibition and Meeting.
July 2019 - Yanran gave an invited talk at the 2019 SIMB Annual Exhibition and Meeting. Thanks to session chairs Drs. Sijin Li and Sudeep Agarwala for the invitation!
May 2019 - Yanran get such a pleasant surprise on her birthday from the students! Thank you all!!
Apr 2019 - Curtis won the gold medal in the regional competition of California High School Science Fair!! Congratulations, Curtis!!
Jan 2019 - Anqi Zhou and Alex officially joined Li Lab! Welcome, Anqi and Alex!
Jan 2019 - Sajida is going back to Pakistan. Best luck to your PhD study, Sajida!
Happy New Year!
2018
Dec 2018 - Yanran is listed one of the winners of the 2nd LG Chem Global Innovation Contest.
Dec 2018 - Yosurf graduated in December with his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering. Good luck, Yosurf!
Dec 2018 - Sajida cooked Pakistan food for the group to celebrate the end of the year! Thank you, Sajida!
Jul 2018 - Yanran visited Tianjin University and gave an invited talk to School of Chemical Engineering. Thanks to Drs. Yingjin Yuan for the invitation!
Jul 2018 - Yanran gave an invited talk at the 2018 Biocatalysis, Bioconversion and Green Manufacturing US-China Bilateral Symposium. Thanks to conference organizer Drs. Qipeng Yuan and Yajun Yan for the invitation!
Jul 2018 - Tu Nguyen and Alex Valenzuela joined Li Lab for summer rotation supported by the UCR GradEdge/JumpStart Summer Program! Minhyo Kang joined Li Lab as a undergraduate researcher! Sajida Naeem Khan from International Islamic University joined Li Lab as a visiting scholar supported by the International Research Support Initiative Program, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan! Curtis Chen from Martin Luthur King High School joined Li Lab to learn what biotechnology and synthetic biology are! Welcome All!
Apr 2018 - Our proposal on plant signaling pathway elucidation in collaboration with Dr. Wenbo Ma and Dr. Xin Ge is selected to be funded by UCR RED collaborative seed grant. Thanks to RED for the generous support to allow us to initiate the collaboration and explore new research directions.
Apr 2018 - Our work on "Complete biosynthesis of noscapine and halogenated alkaloids in yeast" was published in PNAS,
Mar 2018 - Our review on "Synthetic biology strategies toward heterologous phytochemical production" was published in Natural Product Reports.
Mar 2018 - Our review on "Strategies for microbial synthesis of high-value phytochemicals" was published in Nature Chemistry.
Mar 2018 - Yanran is invited to give a talk at the 2018 ACS-BIOT. Thanks to session chair Dr. Kristy Hawkins for the invitation!
Mar 2018 - Vladimir Asryan and Kevin Garcia joined Li Lab as undergraduate researchers! Welcome!
Mar 2018 - Yosuf got accepted in the EAP study abroad program, and will spend 2018 summer in Japan at University of Tokyo. Congratulations, Yosuf!
Feb 2018 - Yosuf won a minigrant award funded by UCR Undergraduate Education Minigrant Program. Congratulations, Yosuf! Happy New Year!
Dec 2018 - Yosurf graduated in December with his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering. Good luck, Yosurf!
Dec 2018 - Sajida cooked Pakistan food for the group to celebrate the end of the year! Thank you, Sajida!
Jul 2018 - Yanran visited Tianjin University and gave an invited talk to School of Chemical Engineering. Thanks to Drs. Yingjin Yuan for the invitation!
Jul 2018 - Yanran gave an invited talk at the 2018 Biocatalysis, Bioconversion and Green Manufacturing US-China Bilateral Symposium. Thanks to conference organizer Drs. Qipeng Yuan and Yajun Yan for the invitation!
Jul 2018 - Tu Nguyen and Alex Valenzuela joined Li Lab for summer rotation supported by the UCR GradEdge/JumpStart Summer Program! Minhyo Kang joined Li Lab as a undergraduate researcher! Sajida Naeem Khan from International Islamic University joined Li Lab as a visiting scholar supported by the International Research Support Initiative Program, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan! Curtis Chen from Martin Luthur King High School joined Li Lab to learn what biotechnology and synthetic biology are! Welcome All!
Apr 2018 - Our proposal on plant signaling pathway elucidation in collaboration with Dr. Wenbo Ma and Dr. Xin Ge is selected to be funded by UCR RED collaborative seed grant. Thanks to RED for the generous support to allow us to initiate the collaboration and explore new research directions.
Apr 2018 - Our work on "Complete biosynthesis of noscapine and halogenated alkaloids in yeast" was published in PNAS,
Mar 2018 - Our review on "Synthetic biology strategies toward heterologous phytochemical production" was published in Natural Product Reports.
Mar 2018 - Our review on "Strategies for microbial synthesis of high-value phytochemicals" was published in Nature Chemistry.
Mar 2018 - Yanran is invited to give a talk at the 2018 ACS-BIOT. Thanks to session chair Dr. Kristy Hawkins for the invitation!
Mar 2018 - Vladimir Asryan and Kevin Garcia joined Li Lab as undergraduate researchers! Welcome!
Mar 2018 - Yosuf got accepted in the EAP study abroad program, and will spend 2018 summer in Japan at University of Tokyo. Congratulations, Yosuf!
Feb 2018 - Yosuf won a minigrant award funded by UCR Undergraduate Education Minigrant Program. Congratulations, Yosuf! Happy New Year!
2017
Nov 2017 - Tiffany joined Li Lab!
Oct 2017 - Our proposal on novel pesticide development in collaboration with Dr. Alex Putman is selected to be funded by Frank G. and Janice B Delfino Agricultural Technology Research Initiative. Thanks to Tom and Cynthia Delfino for the generous support to allow us to initiate the collaboration and explore new research directions.
Aug 2018 - Yanran gave an invited talk at the 2017 SIMB Annual Exhibition and Meeting. Thanks to session chairs Drs. Yi Tang and Yit-heng Chooi for the invitation!
Jul 2017 - Our proposal on phytosterol-producing yeast & temporal compartmentalization is selected to be funded by NSF EAGER. Thanks to NSF-CBET for the generous support to allow us to further explore the synthetic&engineering capacity of baker's yeast.
Jul 2017 - Jonathan joined Li Lab for the REU summer research program!
Jun 2017 - Yosuf joined Li Lab as a undergraduate researcher! & Good luck, Shuonan, for your new journey as a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering!
Jan 2017 - Shanhui Xu & Shuonan Chen joined Li Lab!
Jan 2017 - Li Lab Starts!
Happy New Year!
Oct 2017 - Our proposal on novel pesticide development in collaboration with Dr. Alex Putman is selected to be funded by Frank G. and Janice B Delfino Agricultural Technology Research Initiative. Thanks to Tom and Cynthia Delfino for the generous support to allow us to initiate the collaboration and explore new research directions.
Aug 2018 - Yanran gave an invited talk at the 2017 SIMB Annual Exhibition and Meeting. Thanks to session chairs Drs. Yi Tang and Yit-heng Chooi for the invitation!
Jul 2017 - Our proposal on phytosterol-producing yeast & temporal compartmentalization is selected to be funded by NSF EAGER. Thanks to NSF-CBET for the generous support to allow us to further explore the synthetic&engineering capacity of baker's yeast.
Jul 2017 - Jonathan joined Li Lab for the REU summer research program!
Jun 2017 - Yosuf joined Li Lab as a undergraduate researcher! & Good luck, Shuonan, for your new journey as a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering!
Jan 2017 - Shanhui Xu & Shuonan Chen joined Li Lab!
Jan 2017 - Li Lab Starts!
Happy New Year!