Team

Team Members

Wenli Li

Advisor
Wenli Li obtained her Ph.D. in microbial genetics in 2003 at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2004-2008, she carried out postdoctoral research in School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. After a research career in the PPD company in the States (2008-2009), she was appointed as a Full Professor in the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China. Her current research focuses on the synthetic biology of secondary metabolites from marine microorganisms, and lead compounds discovery by genome mining and combinatorial strategies. She has published over 80 scientific papers on these and related topics.

Fei Xiao

Advisor
Fei Xiao received her B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Ocean University of China (Qingdao China) in 2013 and her Ph.D degree in Biochemistry with Prof. Wenli Li from Ocean University of China in 2019. She is currently doing her postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Wenli Li at Ocean University of China. She focuses on the natural products biosynthesis and engineering, and the study of biosynthetic enzyme mechanisms.

Xin Wang

Advisor
Professor Xin Wang is a "Talent" professor at Ocean University of China and a project scientist at Qingdao Institute of Marine Biomedicine.Many serious diseases are associated with chronic viral infections, such as liver cirrhosis, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and cancer. Our group focuses on the interaction of viral infections with the host and the development of antiviral drugs. By means of molecular biology and virology, we focus on the discovery and verification of new drug targets, the regulatory function of sugar substances on innate immunity, and the feasibility of non-coding RNA as drug targets.