Expert Alert: Dr. Fuli Li, Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. --Steven Wright (US comedian and actor)

It’s a small world, but it is home to a large number of brilliant people … here is one of them …

Dr. Fuli Li, Professor.
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology
Microbial Resources Group Leader
lifl@qibebt.ac.cn
+86-532-80662655

Interests listed for the group include …

1. Screening of microbes with potential use in bioenergy production using high throughput method
2. Identification of novel cellulase involved in biomass degradation
3. Energy microorganism resource center culture bank

According to the group’s Web page (http://english.qibebt.cas.cn/rh/rs/bc/mr/)…

Dr. Li received his Ph.D. degree in microbiology at Shandong University in 2003. From 2005 to 2007, he worked in Max Planck Institute of Terrestrial Microbiology at Marburg. In recent years, Prof. Li has been PI and coordinated over 10 projects. He and his co-workers have published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers, of which 16 are indexed by ISI web of science, and held 3 invention patents. His group mainly focuses on understanding the mechanisms of butanol fermentation, and of yeast stress tolerance.

A few of the papers he has co-authored are …

• Xu, P., Feng, J. H., B. Yu, F. L., Li, C. Q. Ma. 2008. Recent Developments to Biodesulfurization of Fossil Fuels. Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, (Corresponding author) (Invited review)
• Li, F. L., C. H. Hagemeier, H. Seedor, G. Gottschalk, and R. K. Thauer. 2007. Re-citrate synthase from Clostridium kluyveri is phylogenetically related to homocitrate synthase and isopropylmalate synthase rather than to Si-citrate synthase. J. Bacteriol. 189:4299-4304.
• Li, F. L., Z. Zhang, J. Feng, X. Cai, and P. Xu. 2007. Biodesulfurization of DBT in tetradecane and crude oil by a facultative thermophilic bacterium Mycobacterium goodii X7B. J. Biotechnol. 127:222-8.
• Xu, P., B. Yu, F. L. Li, X. F. Cai, and C. Q. Ma. 2006. Microbial degradation of sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen heterocycles. Trends in Microbiology 14:398-405.

Nothing beats reading the full text of an article to get a sense of an expert’s ability. To view the full text of “Microbial Desulfurization of Gasoline in a Mycobacterium goodii X7B Immobilized-Cell System”, one of Dr. Li’s papers, visit http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC544250/

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