(1) Methanol biotransformation
(2) Development of synthetic biology tools
(3) Microbial synthesis of natural products
(1) The Best Potential Youth Scholar, 2019
(2) Excellent Young Scholars from NSFC, 2019
(3) “Lun Shiyi” Distinguished Young Scientists, 2018
(4) Young Scholar Award in the Biochemical Engineering of China, 2017
(5) Young Scholar Award of International Metabolic Science Conference, 2016
(6)The first prize of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, 2015
1. Xiaoxin Zhai, Jiaoqi Gao, Yunxia Li, Martin Grininger, Yongjin Zhou*, Peroxisomal metabolic coupling improves fatty alcohol production from sole methanol in yeast, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2023, 120(12), e2220816120.
2. Min Ye, Jiaoqi Gao, Yongjin Zhou*, Global metabolic rewiring of the nonconventional yeast Ogataea polymorpha for biosynthesis of the sesquiterpenoid β-elemene, Metab. Eng., 2023, 76, 225-231.
3. Jiaoqi Gao, Yunxia Li, Wei Yu, Yongjin Zhou*, Rescuing yeast from cell death enables overproduction of fatty acids from sole methanol, Nat. Metab., 2022, 4, 932-943.
4. Peng Cai, Xiaoyan Wu, Jun Deng, Yongjin Zhou*, Methanol biotransformation toward high-level production of fatty acid derivatives by engineering the industrial yeast Pichia pastoris, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2022, 119(29), e2201711119.
5. Ruibing Chen, Jiaoqi Gao, Wei Yu, Xianghui Chen, Xiaoxin Zhai, Yu Chen, Lei Zhang*, Yongjin Zhou*, Engineering cofactor supply and recycling to drive phenolic acid biosynthesis in yeast. Nat. Chem. Biol., 2022, 18(5), 520-529.
6. Peng Cai#, Xingpeng Duan#, Xiaoyan Wu, Linhui Gao, Min Ye, Yongjin Zhou*, Recombination machinery engineering facilitates metabolic engineering of the industrial yeast Pichia pastoris. Nucleic Acids Res., 2021, 49(13), 7791–7805
7. Jiaoqi Gao, Ning Gao, Xiaoxin Zhai, Yongjin Zhou*, Recombination machinery engineering for precise genome editing in methylotrophic yeast Ogataea polymorpha, iScience, 2021, 24(3), 102168.
8. Ruibing Chen, Shan Yang, Lei Zhang, Yongjin Zhou*, Advanced strategies for production of natural products in yeast. iScience, 2020, 23, 100879.
9. Tao Yu#, Yongjin Zhou#, Mingtao Huang, Quanli Liu, Rui Pereira, Florian David, Jens Nielsen*, Reprogramming yeast metabolism from alcoholic fermentation to lipogenesis. Cell. 2018, 174(6), 1549-1558.
10. Yongjin Zhou, Eduard Kerkhoven, Jens Nielsen*, Barriers and opportunities in bio-based production of hydrocarbons. Nature Energy, 2018, 3, 925-935.
