People
CAO Xupeng
Title: Professor
Subject: Biochemical Engineering
Phone: 0411-84379316
Email: c_x_p@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests

(1)Optimization of microalgae bioreactor cultivation and mechanisms involved in starch and lipid accumulation of microalgae cells in the bioreactors, especially focusing on the effects of regulations of operation on the photosynthesis process, e.g. developing method of feedback regulation basing on photosynthesis activities, the key responding targets of stress induced energy compounds accumulation.  

(2)Development of novel artificial-natural hybrid system and application for carbon and nitrogen fixation and downstream bioconversion.

Biography

1. 01/08 – present Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis

2. 10/08 – 12/08 Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CEAB), CSIC, Spain

3. 08/01 – 07/07 Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

PhD candidate of Marine Bioproducts Engineering. 

4. 10/04 – 02/05 Institut fur Physiologische Chemie, Universitat Mainz, Germany

5. 08/03 – 10/03 Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

6. 08/96 – 07/01 Dalian University of Technology, China

Honors and Awards

(1) Second Award of Science and Technology in Oceanic Engineering by China Association of Oceanic Engineering, 2016

(2) “Da Yu” Innovation Award of Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, 2016

(3)BP Young Scientists and Students Award, 13th International Biotechnology Symposium, 2008

Publications

[1]  Yulong Zhang, Xuan Liu, Yu Zhang, Yajing Zhang, Wenhui Sun, Wangyin Wang, Xupeng Cao*, Xin Guo*, Can Li*. Binding-enhanced organic semiconductor-bacteria hybrids for efficient visible light-driven CO2 conversion to bioplastics. JACS, 2025, 147(28): 25097-25106

[2]  Jing Jiang, Xinwei Li, Kaiguang Yang, Wangyin Wang, Xupeng Cao*, Can Li*. Photosynthetic cultivation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with formate as a novel carbon source to the protein production. CEJ, 2024, 488:152518

[3]  Zhen Zhu, Jing Tian, Pengyu Geng, Maolong Li, Xupeng Cao*. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast factory construction for formate bioconversion. BITE, 2024, 401:130757

[4]  Zhen Zhu, Pengyu Geng, Maolong Li, Heng Yin, Can Li*, Xupeng Cao*, Jing Tian*. A new strategy of carbon-energy coupling transfer enhancement by formate on phototrophic green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. CEJ, 2024, 488:151182

[5]  Dingyi Li, Hong Dong, Xupeng Cao, Wangyin Wang*, Can Li*. Enhancing photosynthetic CO2 fixation by assembling metal-organic frameworks on Chlorella pyrenoidosa. 2023, 14:5337