研究兴趣:1. 改造微生物代谢途径高效合成抗生素维生素等天然产物
2. 利用合成生物学生产稀有来源药物和药物前体
3. 高通量挖掘微生物天然产物
1. 国家自然科学基金面上项目(31971341,2020/01-2023/12,主持)
2. 国家重点研发计划“合成生物学”专项(2019/07-2024/06,主持)
3. 湖北省自然科学基金杰青项目(2017CFA054,2017/8-2020/8,主持)
4. 国家自然科学基金面上项目(31670090,2017/01-2020/12,主持)
5. 2014年万人计划青年拔尖人才(2016/01-2018/12,主持)
6. 国家自然科学基金优秀青年基金(31222002,2013/01-2015/12,主持)
7. 科技部973计划课题(2012CB721001,2012/01-2016/08,主持)
8. 国家自然科学基金面上项目(31170096,2012/01-2015/12,主持)
9. 科技部973计划子课题(2011CBA00806,2011/01-2015/08,主持)
10. 国家自然科学基金主任基金(31040086, 2011/01-2013/12,主持)
2020年 9778818威尼斯医学部学位评定委员会委员、9778818威尼斯学位评定分委员会主席;合成生物学丛书编委;9778818威尼斯学术委员会医学部分委员会委员
2019年 中国医药生物技术协会合成生物分会专业委员会常务委员;Bioresources and Bioprocessing, Editor on Board;合成生物学期刊编委;
2016年 Metabolic Engineering, Editorial on Board;ACS Synthetic Biology, Editorial on Board;Current Opinion in Biotechnology special issue "Pharmaceutical Biotech 2017",Co-editor;微生物学报编辑委员会编委;微生物学会分子微生物学与生物工程专业委员会委员;生物化工专委会委员;湖北省食品药品监督管理局食品药品科技咨询专家
1. 2021 Metabolic Engineering 13 (美国 2021年7月),特邀报告,会议主席之一
2. International Conference on Metabolic Sciences(ICMS2019, 上海,2019年), 大会主旨报告
3. 2019 Metabolic Engineering Summit (MES 2019,天津,2019年10月),大会报告
4. 中国生物工程学会第十二届学术年会暨2018年全国生物技术大会(长沙11月,2018年),大会报告
5. The 2nd International Symposium on Zymomonas mobilis (Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology,武汉10月,2018),大会报告
6. Synthetic Biology-Resource Allocation in Natural and Unnatural Systems 2018,(上海10月,2018),大会报告
7. The 1st Synthetic Biology World Forum, 2018 –Microbial Production of Natural Products,(南京9月,2018),大会报告
8. 2018 Metabolic Engineering 12,(德国6月, 2018),特邀报告(invited presentation, Featured speaker)
9. 2017 Metabolic Engineering Summit(MES2017,北京10月,2017),大会报告
10. 18th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes (ISBA18, 韩国,2017年5月),大会报告
11. The 13th International Symposium on the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms, (GIM2016,武汉10月,2016),大会主旨报告(plenary talk)
12. 2016 Metabolic Engineering 11 (日本6月,2016),特邀报告(invited talk, Feature speaker)
13. 2015年国际代谢工程峰会(中国北京,2015年12月),特邀报告
14. Cell Factories & Biosustainability 2015(丹麦哥本哈根,2015年5月),分会报告
15. 冷泉港2014亚洲合成生物学会议(中国苏州,2014年12月),大会报告
16. 2014杨凌国际农业科技论坛(中国杨凌,2014年11月),大会报告
Tao H#, Lauterbach L#, Bian G#, Chen R#, Hou A#, Mori T#, Cheng S, Hu B, Lu L, Mu X, Li M, Adachi N, Kawasaki M, Moriya T, Senda T, Wang X, Deng Z, Abe I*, Dickschat J*, Liu T*. 2022. Discovery of no-squalene triterpenes[J]. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04773-3
Yuan Y#, Cheng S#, Bian G#, Yan P, Ma Z, Dai W, Chen R, Fu S, Huang H, Chi H, Cai Y, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2022. Efficient exploration of terpenoid biosynthetic gene cluster in filamentous fungi[J]. Nature Catalysis, 5(4), 277-287
Li D#, Liu R#, Wang M#, Peng R#, Fu S, Fu A, Le J, Yao Q, Yuan T, Chi H, Mu X, Sun T, Liu H, Yan P, Wang S, Cheng S, Deng Z, Liu Z*, Wang G*, Li Y*, Liu T*. 2022. 3β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase expressed by gut microbes degrades testosterone and is linked to depression in males. Cell Host & Microbe. 30:1-11
Deng X#, Shi B#, Ye Z, Huang M, Chen R, Cai Y, Kuang Z, Sun X, Bian G, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2022. Systematic identification of Ocimum sanctum sesquiterpenoid synthases and (-)-eremophilene overproduction in engineered yeast. Metabolic Engineering. 69:122-133
Chen R, Jia Q, Mu X, Hu B, Sun X, Deng Z, Chen F*, Bian G*, Liu T*. Systematic mining of fungal chimeric terpene synthases using an efficient precursor-providing yeast chassis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118: e2023247118
Hu B#, Liu R#, Tang X#, Pan Y#, Wang M#, Tong Y#, Ye G#, Shen G#, Ying R#, Fu A, Li D, Zhao W, Peng J, Guo J, Men D, Yao X, Wang Y, Zhang H, Feng Z, Yu J, Chen L, Deng Z, Lu X, Zhang Y*, Li Y*, Liu B*, Yu L*, Li Y*, Lu J*, Liu T*. 2021. The concordance between the evolutionary trend and the clinical manifestation of the two SARS-CoV-2 variants, National Science Review, nwab073, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab073
An Z#, Tao H#, Wang Y, Xia B, Zou Y, Fu S, Fang F, Sun X, Huang R, Xia Y, Deng Z, Liu R*, Liu T*. 2021. Increasing the heterologous production of spinosad in Streptomyces albus J1074 by regulating biosynthesis of its polyketide skeleton. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 6(4):292-301
Fu S, Cheng R, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2021. Qualitative analysis of chemical components in LianhuaQingwen capsule by HPLC-Q Exactive-Orbitrap-MS coupled with GC-MS. Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis. 12:1-14
He H#, Bian G#, Herbst-Gervasoni C#, Mori T, Shinsky S, Hou A, Mu X, Huang M, Cheng S, Deng Z, Christianson D*, Abe I*, Liu T*. 2020. Discovery of the cryptic function of terpene cyclases as aromatic prenyltransferases. Nature Communication, 11:3958
Liu R, Zhang Y, Zhai G, Fu S, Xia Y, Hu B, Cai X, Zhang Y, Li Y, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2020. A cell-free platform based on nisin biosynthesis for discovering novel lanthipeptides and guiding their overproduction in vivo. Advanced Science, 202001616
Wang M#, Fu A#, Hu B#, Tong Y#, Liu R#, Liu Z, Gu J, Xiang B, Liu J, Jiang W, Shen G, Zhao W, Men D, Deng Z, Yu L, Wei W*, Li Y*, Liu T*. 2020. Nanopore targeted sequencing for the accurate and comprehensive detection of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses. Small, 2002169
Siemon T#, Wang Z#, Bian G#, Seitz T, Ye Z, Lu Y, Liu T*, Mathias C*. 2020. Semisynthesis of plant-derived englerin A enabled by microbe engineering of guaia-6, 10 (14)-diene as building block. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(6): 2760-2765
Kang W#, Ma T#, Liu M, Qu Z, Liu Z, Zhang H, Shi B, Fu S, Ma J, Lai L, He S, Qu J, Au S, Kang B, Lau W, Deng Z, Xia J*, Liu T*. 2019. Modular enzyme assembly for enhanced cascade biocatalysis and metabolic flux. Nature Communications. 10: 4248.
Shi B, Ma T, Ye Z, Li X, Huang Y, Zhou Z, Ding Y, Deng Z, Liu T*.2019. Systematic metabolic engineering of saccharomyces cerevisiae for lycopene overproduction. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 67:11148-11157
Ma T#, Shi B, Ye Z, Li X, Liu M, Chen Y, Xia J, Jens N, Deng ZX, Liu T*. 2019. Lipid engineering combined with systematic metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for high-yield production of lycopene. Metabolic Engineering, 52: 134-142.
Bian G#, Rinkel J#, Wang Z, Lauterbach L, Hou A, Yuan Y, Deng Z, Liu T*, Dickschat JS*. 2018. A Clade II-D Fungal Chimeric Diterpene Synthase from Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Making Dolasta-1(15), 8-diene. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 57:15887-15890.
Mary A#, Zhang Y#, Whitney H, Wang G, Baidoo E, Liu T*, Tang Y*. 2018. Comparative Studies of Glycolytic Pathways and Channeling Under in Vitro and in Vivo Modes. AIChE Journal. doi 10.1002 / aic.16367.
Liu R#, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2018. Streptomyces species: Ideal chassis for natural product discovery and over production. Metabolic Engineering, 50: 74–84.
Ding J#, Liang H, Fu S, Liu R, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2018. Modification of E-Poly-L-Lysine In Vivo to Reduce Self-Toxicity and Enhance Antibiotic Overproduction. AIChE Journal, 64(12):4187-4192.
Bian G#, Hou A, Yuan Y, Hu B, Cheng S, Ye Z, Di Y, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2018. Metabolic engineering-based rapid characterization of a sesquiterpene cyclase and the skeletons of fusariumdiene and fusagramineol from Fusarium graminearum. Organic Letters, 20(6): 1626-1629.
Bian G#, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2017. Strategies for terpenoid overproduction and new terpenoid discovery. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 48:234–241.
Bian G#, Han Y, Hou A, Yuan Y, Liu X, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2017. Releasing the potential power of terpene synthases by a robust precursor supply platform. Metabolic Engineering, 42:1-8.
Tan G#, Deng K, Liu X, Tao H, Chang Y, Chen J, Chen K, Sheng Z, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2017. Heterologous Biosynthesis of Spinosad: An Omics-Guided Large Polyketide Synthase Gene Cluster Reconstitution in Streptomyces. ACS Synthetic Biology, 6(6):995-1005
Liu Z#, Zhang Y#, Jia X, Hu M, Deng Z, Xu Y*, Liu T*. 2017. In Vitro Reconstitution and Optimization of the Entire Pathway to Convert Glucose into Fatty Acid. ACS Synthetic Biology, 6(4):701-709
Tan G#, Liu T*. 2017. Rational synthetic pathway refactoring of natural products biosynthesis in actinobacteria. Metabolic Engineering, 39: 228-236.
Liu Q#, Wu K, Lu L, Cheng Y, Zhang Y, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2015. Engineering an iterative polyketide pathway in Escherichia coli results in single-form alkene and alkane overproduction. Metabolic Engineering. 28, 82-90.
Tao H#, Guo D, Zhang Y, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2015. Metabolic engineering of microbes for branched-chain biodiesel production with low-temperature property. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 8:92.
Liu R#, Zhu F, Lu L, Fu A, Lu J, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2014. Metabolic engineering of fatty acyl-ACP reductase-dependent pathway to improve fatty alcohol production in Escherichia coli. Metabolic Engineering, 22, 10-21.
Guo D#, Zhu J, Deng Z, Liu T*. 2014. Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Production of Fatty Acid Short-Chain Esters through Combination of the Fatty Acid and 2-Keto Acid Pathways. Metabolic Engineering, 22, 69-75
Yu X#, Liu T#*, Zhu F, Khosla C*. 2011.In vitro reconstitution and steady-state analysis of the fatty acid synthase from Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 108(46):18643-8.
Liu T#*, Khosla C*. 2010. A Balancing Act for Taxol Precursor Pathways in E. coli. Science. 330:44-45
Liu T#, Vora H, Khosla C*. 2010. Quantitative analysis and engineering of fatty acid biosynthesis in E. coli. Metabolic Engineering. 12:378-86