User:Peng Xu

Contact Info



 * Peng Xu
 * Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
 * Chemical and Biological Engieering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 * 110 Eighth Street
 * Troy, NY 12180, USA.
 * pxu999 at gmail dot com

I work in the Koffas Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Before we moved to RPI at February 2011, I have studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo] for two and a half years. My research interests include creating novel microbial platforms for producing flavonoids and fatty acids through a combination of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology approach.

Education

 * December 2012 (expected),PhD in Metabolic Engineering,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 * 2006, MS in Biochemical Engineering, Jiangnan University (Formerly Southern Yangtze University)
 * 2003, BS in Biotechnology, Jiangnan University (Formerly Southern Yangtze University)

Research interests

 * 1) Metabolic engineering
 * 2) Synthetic biology
 * 3) Natural Products/Biofuels
 * 4) Biochemical/Bioprocess engineering

Publications
My research ID profile
 * Xu, P; Ding, ZY; Qian, Z; et al. Improved production of mycelial biomass and ganoderic acid by submerged culture of Ganoderma lucidum SB97 using complex media, Enzyme and Microbial Technology Volume: 42 Issue: 4 Pages: 325-331
 * 1) Zhang, TX; Xu, P; Sun, J; et al. Identification of Biological Wort Turbidity Caused by Microbial Contamination of Gairdner Barley, Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists Volume: 67 Issue: 1 Pages: 33-37
 * Xu, Peng; Koffas, Mattheos A. G. Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for biofuel production, Biofuels Volume: 1 Issue: 3 Pages: 493-504
 * Xu, Peng; Ranganathan, Sridhar; Fowler, Zachary; Maranas, Costas D.; Koffas, Mattheos A.G. Genome-scale metabolic network modeling results in minimal interventions that cooperatively force carbon flux towards malonyl-CoA, Metabolic Engineering, In publication

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