Our Team

Collaborating to advance synthetic biology

Principal Investigator

Chen Ling

Chen Ling, PhD

Associate Professor

School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University

Dr. Chen Ling completed postdoctoral research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) from 2019 to 2023 and obtained his PhD from Tsinghua University in 2019.

PhD Students

Sunny

Xue-Mei Na, 那雪梅 (Sunny)

PhD Candidate

Developing novel genome editing tools through transposase-mediated genome rearrangements and metabolic engineering for producing bulk chemicals using non-model microorganisms.

Bridges

Bai-Tao Chen, 陈百涛 (Bridges)

PhD Candidate

My current research mainly focuses on the mechanisms of transposons, particularly the IS110 family and ISPpu10. I am fascinated by how these genetic elements mediate genomic rearrangements and am currently working on repurposing them as programmable genome editing tools.

CutePoison

Yu-Hang Zhang, 张宇航 (CutePoison)

PhD Candidate

Halo-Pseudomonas: eat plastics and wood.

Master Students

Yuki

Yuan Yuan, 袁圆 (Yuki)

Master's Student

Research on metabolic mechanisms of non-model microorganisms and optimization of base editing tools.

Lily

Shu-He Wang, 王舒禾 (Lily )

Master's Student

Halomonas bluephagenesis TD01 producing mcl-PHA.

Amber

Yi-Na Xiong, 熊依娜 (Amber)

Master's Student

Focusing on microbial metabolism and antibiotic mechanism research.

Feena

Fei Zhu, 朱菲 (Feena)

Master's Student

Using bioinformatics to mine new gene editing tools.

Lynette

Yi-Tong Lin, 林依橦 (Lynette)

Master's Student

Semi-rational design and rearrangement of metabolic pathways in non-model microorganisms through metabolic engineering to improve production of bulk chemicals.

Marcus

Zheng-Mao Huang, 黄正茂 (Marcus)

Master's Student

I love Zymo and table tennis!

Nan Yang

Nan Yang, 杨楠

Master's Student

Developing novel synthetic biology toolkits and optimizing them for genome editing in non-model microorganisms, aiming for biological control or synthesis of high-value-added products.

Tyler

Tai-Jiang Chen, 陈泰江 (Tyler)

Master's Student

Metabolic pathway modification and optimization of Halomonas using metabolic engineering and adaptive laboratory evolution to develop next-generation halophilic Halomonas strains.

Undergraduate Students

Isabelle

Zi-Han Chen, 陈姿涵 (Isabelle)

Undergraduate Student

Research on the cofactor specificity preference of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) in different microbial chassis.

ZheQiu

Zhe Qiu, 邱喆

Undergraduate Student

Interested in microbiology and bioengineering.

Alumni

Min-Yi Zheng, 郑敏奕 - Undergraduate student (2024-2025) - Now PhD student at Tsinghua University

Lin-Hao Zhang, 张琳昊 - Undergraduate student (2024-2025) - Now PhD student at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB)