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Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates
Supervisor of Master's Candidates
Gender:Male
Status:Employed
Department:School of Life Science and Technology
Education Level:Postgraduate (Doctoral)
Degree:Doctoral Degree in Science
Discipline:Microbiology
Academic Honor:
2019 elected: Central China scholars
Profile
Shangxian Xie, Ph.D., Professor, Huazhong Outstanding Scholar, is the Director of Institute of Environmental Microbiology & Bioresouce Science. He joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a professor in 2018. He received Ph.D degree from Texas A&M University in 2016. His research interest focuses on microbiology, synthetic biology and biorefinery, especially focus on lignin biodegradation and valorization to multiple products for bioenergy, biomedicine and biomaterial. He has published more than ten papers about lignin bioconversion in high impact journals including Advanced Science, Green Chemistry, Current Opinion in Biotechnology.
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Research Group
1. Synthetic Biology and Microbial Manufacturing
- The molecular mechanisms of lignocellulosic degradation
- Lignin valorization with artificial cell/cell-free systems
- Biosynthesis of bioplastic (PHB) with synthetic bacteria
- Biosynthesis and bioconversion of biomedical compounds
- Enzyme engineering with unnatural amino acid and in vivo directed evolution
2. Environmental Microbiology Technology
- Bioremediation of refractory pollutants
- Resource recovery of agricultural and industrial wastes
- Co-metabolism mechanism of biomass and xenobiotics
3. Macromolecular biomaterials
- Biological modification of lignin for macromolecular biomaterials
- Synthesis of lignocellulose-based polymer composites
- Functional biomaterials with PHB, collagen, polysaccharide and lignin