Yin Yulong
Professor
Department of Animal Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography
Yulong Yin is a Professor, Institute Faculty Fellow in the Research Center of Animal Healthy Feeding and cross-Appointments with the Life Science College of Nanchang University. He earned his bachelor's degree in Biology from Hunan Normal University Changsha, Hunan, China, a master's degree in animal nutrition from Agricultural University of Central China Wuhan, China, and a doctorate (Animal Nutrition) from The Queen's University of Belfast, UK.
Research Interest
He conducts research in Animal Production; Animal Feed, Nutrition and Physiology of Amino Acids and Protein; Gene Expression and Gene Therapy, Comparative Animal Nutrition, Growth and Development of Animals, Biology and Pathobiology of Nitric Oxide and Polyamines; Diabetes, Obesity and Cardiovascular Complications, Fetal Nutrition and Metabolism, Animal Models of Human Diseases, Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology. He has received several prestigious awards as follows, 1.Hundred Talents of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, May, 2000 2. National Science and Technology Progress Prize of China, 2008 (as project leader and the first researcher) “Applied Techniques of Regulating Nitrogen and Phosphorus Metabolism in Livestock and Poultry and Safety Feed Production” 3.National Science and Technology Progress Prize of China, December 1996 (as project leader and the first researcher) “Ileal digestibility of nutrients and ileal digestible essential amino acid requirements for growing-finishing pigs” 4. National Science and Technology Progress Prize of China, December, 1997 (as main researcher)-“Swine and poultry nutritional parameter” 5.Max-planck Gesellschaft Scholarship, Germany, June 21, 1995 6.Science and Technology Progress Prize of Hunan Province, December 1994 (as project leader and the second researcher)-”Utilization of the Chinese Maifanite stone as a mineral and trace elements for animals” 7.Outstanding Scientist Prize of the Chinese Government, October 1, 1992 8. Young Scientist Prize of Agricultural Association of Hunan Province, March 1, 1992 9.Young Scientist Prize of Chinese Association of Agriculture, April 7, 1992 10.Young Scientist Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, October 17, 1991 11.Science and Technology Progress Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, December 1990 (as main researcher)-“Research of the animal feedstuff and animal production in Taoyuan County” 12. Max-planck Gesellschaft Scholarship, West Germany, December 31, 1985
Publications
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Yao K, Yin YL, Chu WY, Liu ZQ, Dun D, Li TJ, Huang RL, Zhang JS, Tan Bie, Wang WC and Wu GY, Dietary Arginine Supplementation Increases mTOR Signaling Activity in Skeletal Muscle of Neonatal Pigs. J Nutr 138: 867-872 (2008).
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Dekaney CM, Wu GY, Yin YL and Jaeger LA, Regulation of ornithine aminotransferase gene expression and activity by all-transretinoic acid in Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 19 : 674-681 (2008).
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Fu J, Wenzel SC, Perlovan O, Wang JP, Gross F, Tang ZR, Yin YL, Stewart AF, Muller R and Zhang YM, Efficient transfer of two large secondary metabolite pathway gene clusters into heterologous hosts by transposition. Nucleic Acids Research 36: 113-114 (2008).
