Seminar: Discovering New Anti-infectives from Underexplored Microorganisms to Fight against Superbugs
Speaker：Prof. Liangcheng Du　University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date: 30 May 2015 (Saturday)
Time: 3:30 p. m.
Venue: E211, College of science

Education
Postdoc. University of California, Davis
Ph.D., The Royal Vet and Ag University, Denmark
M.S., The Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.S., Yunnan University, China

Research Interests
Biosynthetic mechanism and metabolic engineering of novel antifungal and anti-MRSA antibiotics from gliding Gram-negative bacteria, mycotoxins and other bioactive natural products from plant pathogenic fungi and endophytes

Current Research
1. Molecular mechanism for the biosynthesis of new antibiotics, mycotoxins and other bioactive natural products
2. Discovery of new antibiotics and other bioactive natural products from Lysobacter bacteria, endophytic fungi, and other underexplored sources
3. Metabolic pathway engineering