Educationand Qualifications

2007-recent, Professor, School of bioengineering, Jiangnan University;

2003-2007, Senior Research Associate, Duke University,USA;

2000-2003, Postdoctoral program, University ofTexas, US;

1992-1997, Lecturer, Tsinghua University;

Research Field

1. Optimization of industrial microbial metabolicengineering

2.Pathogenic mechanism of food borne pathogenic microorganisms

3.Elimination and intervention of food borne biotoxins

Recent Publication

1. Xu, D., Tan, Y.,Huan, X., Hu, X., Wang, X. (2010) Construction of a novel shuttle vector foruse in Brevibacterium flavum, anindustrial amino acid producer. J. Microbiol. Meth. 80, 86-92.

2. Wang, X. and Quinn,P. J. (2009) Lipopolysaccharide: Biosynthetic pathway and structure modification.Prog. Lipid. Res.49, 97-107

3. Wang, X., Ribeiro,A. A., Guan, Z. and Raetz, C. R. H. (2009) Identification of undecaprenyl phosphate-β-d-galactosamine in Francisella novicida and its function inlipid a modification. Biochemistry. 48, 1162-1172.

4. Raetz, C.R., Guan,Z., Ingram, B.O., Six, D.A., Song, F., Wang, X., Zhao, J. (2009) Discovery ofnew biosynthetic pathways: the lipid A story. J Lipid Res. 50, S103-S108

5. Quinn, P. J. andWang, X. (2008) Eds. Lipids in health and disease. Subcellular Biochemistry.Vol. 49. Springer.

6. Wang, X., Ribeiro,A. A., Guan, Z., Abraham, S. & Raetz, C. R. H. (2007) Attenuated virulenceof a Francisella mutant lacking thelipid A 4′-Phosphatase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 104, 4136-4141.