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伊利诺伊大学香槟分校（UIUC）赵惠民教授来生命学院做学术报告
来源： 发布日期：2015-09-29
应bob手机在线登陆理学与材料学部副主任委员、生命学院李春教授邀请，伊利诺伊大学香槟分校（UIUC）赵惠民教授于2015年7月23日上午来到生命学院，为北理工师生带来题为“Challenges and Opportunities in Synthetic Biology”的学术报告。李春教授主持了学术报告会，生命学院高海军副教授、周晓宏副教授、李珺副教授、冯旭东老师、王颖老师和四十余名研究生、本科生参加了报告会。
赵惠民教授的研究方向为合成生物学，他首先从合成生物学的定义出发，介绍了近些年在该领域取得的研究进展。接下来，赵惠民教授分三个部分详细介绍了自己的研究内容：一是新的天然产物生物合成途径的发现；二是化工燃料的生物合成及微生物工厂的设计和优化；三是高通量基因组工具的使用。赵惠民教授认为，合成生物学作为一种有目的、有理性的代谢改造技术，应用前景十分广阔。随着分子生物学、细胞生物学等生物学科不断发展，以及化学工程、数学理论及分析检测和信息控制技术等外源学科的发展，使合成生物学有目的、有理性的改造更加可行。赵惠民教授的汇报精彩生动、内容丰富，激起了与会教师和学生们的广泛兴趣，结合相关问题进行热烈的讨论。
（审核:唐晓英）
Dr. Huimin Zhao (赵惠民) is the Centennial Endowed Chair Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and professor of chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, and bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Dr. Zhao has authored and co-authored over 220 research articles and over 20 issued and pending patent applications with several being licensed by industry. In addition, he has given plenary, keynote or invited lectures in over 240 international meetings, universities, industries, and research institutes. Eleven of his former graduate students and postdocs became professors in the United States (7), Korea (2) and China (2).
Dr. Zhao received numerous research and teaching awards and honors, including Elmer Gaden Award (2014), Guggenheim Fellowship (2012), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2010), Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2009), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Food, Pharmaceutical, and Bioengineering Division Plenary Award Lecturer (2009), the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Biochemical Technology Young Investigator Award (2008), Outstanding Overseas Young Chinese Scholars Award (2007), DuPont Young Professor Award (2005), National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), Dow Chemical Special Recognition Award (1999), Xerox Award for Faculty Research from UIUC College of Engineering (2005), Petit Scholar from UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2006), and University Scholar from UIUC (2007).
Dr. Zhao served as a consultant for over 10 companies such as Pfizer, Maxygen, BP, Gevo, and zuChem, and a Scientific Advisory Board member of Gevo, Myriant Technologies, and Toulouse White Biotechnology (TWB). He is an advisor to the Department of Energy’s Biological and Environmental Research program and member of National Academies’ study group on Industrialization of Biology: A Roadmap to Accelerate Advanced Manufacturing of Chemicals. He is the visiting principal investigator of the metabolic engineering research laboratory (MERL) in the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) of Singapore. In addition, he is the theme leader of the Biosystems Design theme in the Institute for Genomic Biology at UIUC. Dr. Zhao is an Associate Editor of ACS Catalysis and an editor of ACS Synthetic Biology, Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, Scientific Reports, Biocatalysis, and Engineering in Life Sciences. His primary research interests are in the development and applications of synthetic biology tools to address society’s most daunting challenges in health, energy, and sustainability, and in the fundamental aspects of enzyme catalysis, cell metabolism, and gene regulation.
（审核:唐晓英）