Feng Zhi Yang
Professor
Bioengineering
Nanjing Agricultural University
China
Biography
He graduated from Nagoya University in Japan in 2006 and did postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rockefeller University from 2006 to 2012. In 2012, he was hired as Professor of Food Science and Technology at Nanjing Agricultural University. He has published 15 SCI papers in PNAS, JACS and other journals.
Research Interest
Microbial Macrogenomics, Natural Product Biosynthesis
Publications
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Iqbal HA, Feng Z, Brady SF (2012) Biocatalysts and small molecule products from metagenomic studies. Curr Opin Chem Biol, 16:109-16.
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Feng Z, Chakraborty D, Dewell S, Reddy BV, Brady SF (2012) Environmental DNA encoded antibiotics fasamycin A and B inhibit FabF in type II fatty-acid biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc, 134:2981–2987.
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Huang SX﹟, Feng Z﹟, Wang L﹟, Galm U, Wendt-Pienkowski E, Yang D, Tao M, Coughlin JM, Duan Y, Shen B (2012) A designer bleomycin with significantly improved DNA cleavage activity. J Am Chem Soc, 134:13501-13509. (﹟ co-first author)
