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Reviewing Editor
Yonghua Li-Beisson
Areas of expertise Lipid metabolism, lipidomics, triacylglycerols, alkanes, lipid polyesters, stress response, lipid droplet, biofuel, Chlamydomonas, Arabidopsis. Yonghua Li-Beisson is a Senior Scientist at CEA (the French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission) and at Aix-Marseille University. She received a BSc in Lipid Chemistry from Henan University of Technology, China, and a PhD in Biological Sciences from University of Hull, England. Dr. Li-Beisson was a Postdoctoral fellow at University of Oxford and at Michigan State University, where she made several discoveries about the biosynthesis of plant-specific lipid polyesters. She also coordinated a worldwide effort to catalog lipid genes and map lipid pathways in Arabidopsis, a widely accessible online resource (Aralip). Dr. Li-Beisson’s research focuses on uncovering the genes and pathways underlying lipid metabolism and using such knowledge to increase oil content and/or produce industrially important fatty acids. Current work focuses on dissecting lipid pathways and the interplay between these and other cellular metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using a combination of forward/reverse genetic approaches and lipidomic analysis. Editorial experience Plant Cell, Guest Editor (2015-); Eukaryotic Cell, Editorial Board (2012-); OA Biotechnology, Editorial Board (2012-); Frontiers in Plant Metabolism and Chemodiversity, Reviewing Editor (2012-). Honors and awards include Postgraduate studentship for PhD studies; Member of the Scientific Committee for International Symposium on Plant Lipids (ISPL) 2012 Seville; 2014 Guelph; 2016 Gottingen); Discussion Leader for Gordon Research Conferences on Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism and Function (2015 Texas); Advisory board member for Colin Ratledge Center for Lipid Research at Shangdong University of Technology (China). |