Zhi-Pei LIU

Environmental Microbial Biotechnology

Principal Investigator：
Dr. Prof.Zhi-Pei Liu

Tel/Fax：010-64806081
E-mail: liuzhp@im.ac.cn

Research Area：
Development and application of environmental microbial techniques.

Research Interests：
Environmental pollution is one of the most serious problems the whole world faces. Now, environmental situation is severe in our country. Although lots of efforts have been made, the environmental quality is still getting worse in China. With the rapid economical development and the pressure of environmental protection, the demand of environmental treatment is much more desired than ever.

Microbes are decomposers in natural ecology system and play very important roles in pollution treatment. As the “pollution erasing technique” rather than the “pollution transferring technique”, the environmental biological techniques based on microbes, which includes microbes, various reactors and process arts for microbial treatment, is significantly better than other techniques and has become a main approach in environmental protection. Our group interests in collection and research of microbial resources, especially development and application of environmental microbial agent, and intends to use these resources in environmental protection engineering including sewage treatment and bioremediation of contaminated soil.

Our group is now in charge of many programs including the Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (National 863 program), the program of National Science Foundation of China, the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and commissions of large/intermediate companies.

Current research includes:

Group Members:

Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr.Zhi-Pei Liu

Prof. of Environmental microbiology

Institute of Microbiology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
West Beichen Road
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101, P. R. China

Tel：010-64806081
E-mail:liuzhp@im.ac.cn

Major and Specialty
Microbial ecology, Environmental microbiology, Environmental biotechnology

Education
B. S.1982  Biology, Xiamen University
M. S. 1987  Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS)
Ph. D.2002  Environmental microbiology, IMCAS

Professional Appointments
1982－1984  Teacher for microbiology, Sanming Agricultural School, Fujian
1987－1996　Assistant professor, IMCAS
1996－2009　Associate professor, IMCAS
2009.6-----   Principle Investigator, Professor and Ph.D Advisor, IMCAS

Editorial Board
《Microbiology (China)》
《Environmental Sciences (China)》
《Environmental Pollution and Protection (China)》

Permanent Staff

Ying Liu Associate professor liuying@im.ac.cn	Dr. Li-Li Miao Assistant professor miaoll@im.ac.cn

Graduate Students

Wei-Li Du    (2013-)
Ting-Ting Hou    (2012-)
Xiyan Gao    (2012-)
Jie Qu    (2011-)
Zhi-Ping Zhong    (2011-)
Yang Xu    (2008-)

Former Graduate Students

Liang-Zi Liu     (2013, M. S.):
Yan-Chun Yao     (2013, M. S.):
Qing-Ling Zhang     (2012, M. S.): China Household Electric Appliance Research Institute
Hai-Yan Zheng     (2011, M. S.): Sino Biological Inc.
Run Sun     (2010, M. S.): Beijing ROSE Co-Win Medical Tech,.Co.Ltd 
Xi-Yan Gao     (2010, M. S.): Ph. D student in IMCAS
Song-Zhe Fu     (2009, M. S.): Center for disease protection and control of Jiangxi Province
Hong-Xia Fan     (2009, M. S.):  Ph. D student in IMCAS
Li-Ping Chen     (2008, M.S.): Center for disease protection and control of Huzhou city, Zhejiang province
Hai-Ying Xu    (2008, M. S.):  Beijing Weiming Kaituo Agricultural Biotechnology Company
Ling Huang     (2007, M. S.)
Tao Zhang     (2006, M. S.):  Ph. D student in IMCAS
Xi-Wu Li       (2003, M. S.):  Beijing Sangde Company

Representative pictures

Ribbon representation of the overall structure of cold-adapted β-glucosidase BglU. The α-helices and β-strands of the TIM barrel are shown by salmon and sky blue. Loops L1, L2 and αB, αC are orange. L5, βC and βD are green/cyan. L5 is yellow. L4 and other residues are gray.

Bioremediation of aged and highly contaminated soil (Above) and elimination of pollutants in different experimental groups (Below). Experimental groups: ？, microbial/phytoremediation (JZ); ▼, phytoremediation (Z); ○, microbial remediation (J); ■, control (N).

Recent Publications (2010-)

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Patents