Speaker：Prof. Yinduo Ji

Time：10:00-11:30，Nov. 1 (Tuesday), 2016

Venue：Innovation conference room ,The 6th floor, College of Food Science and Engineering, North Campus

Introduction:

Yinduo Ji, male (1964 ~), PhD, tenured professor of the University of Minnesota, mentor of PhD students and Postdoctoral Associates. He is a member of American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the AAAS, a reviewer of numours National Institutes of Health (NIH) study sections and variety of international foundations, and a principal investigator of Minnesota Supercomputer Institute; he serves as a editorial board member of 9 international academic journals such as Virulence, World Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Journal of Veterinary Science & Medical Diagnosis, as well as a reviewer of 22 international academic journals. The research project he participated in earned a 1992 annual Chinese Ministry of Health, Medicine & Health Science and Technology Progress Award, and the National Scientific and Technological Achievement Award in 1994 by the People's Republic of China National Science and Technology Commission. He was the Winner of Central State Organs Prozac Young Award.

His research interest focues on cellular and molecular pathogenesis of bacterial pathogens. He is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of the two-component signal transduction regulatory systems of Staphylococcus aureus. His projects have been funded by the US National Institutes of Health, US Department of Agriculture and other funding agencies with over three million US dollars. He filled two US patent applications, published two books as an editor, and has more than 40 SCI scientific articles published in scientific journals, including SCIENCE, as the first author or corresponding author. His articles and book chapters have been cited 1682 times by peers.  Since 2011 his four research articles publised in PLOS ONE have been reviewed 7836 times. He has been mentoring and training 15 PhD students, 7 Postdocs, and 8 Visiting Scholars. He has been invited to present his works 40 times, including seminars at a variety of national and internal institutions (such as Montana State University, University of Minnesota, Zhejiang University, China Agricultural University, Yangzhou University, and the Institute of Infectious Diseases, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention), as well as academic lectures or reports (such as International Conference of Gram-positive pathogens, Beijing International Conference of Drug Discovery Science and Technology, Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, International Conference on animal and dairy science, etc.).He has collaborated with differnet Universities or Research Institutions in the world such as Mayo Clinic, University of Iowa, and Zhejiang University.

College of Food Science and Engineering
Sino-US Joint Food Safety Research Center
2016-10-31