Education/Working Experience

2005-2007, Colorado State University, USA

Jan-Mar, 2013, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Research Direction

Microbiology, mainly focus on the combat against the pathogen of Mycobacteria by molecular biological techniques

Thesis or Articles Published

1.         Zhang W, Ma L, Xin Y, Xu Y, Ren F, Ma Y. Application of bioinformatics in achieving polyclonal antibody of EmbB in M.smegmatis. Chinese journal of biochemical pharmaceutics. 2012, 33 (6), 732-735

2.         Li S, Kang J, Yu W, Zhou Y,Zhang W, Xin Y, Ma Y. Identification of M. tuberculosis Rv3441c and M. smegmatis MSMEG_1556 and essentiality of M. smegmatis MSMEG_1556. PLoS One. 2012; 7(8): e42769.

3.         Zhang W, Ma L, Xin Y, Xu Y, Ren F, Ma Y. EmbB and EmbC functional Domains exert Anchoring and Catalyzation in Biosynthesis of Mycobacterial Arabinan. Chinese Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 2011, 27 (11), 1051-1060

4.         Wenli Zhang, Victoria C. Jones, Michael S. Scherman, Sebabrata Mahapatra, Dean Crick, Suresh Bhamidi, Yi Xin, Michael R. McNeil, and Yufang Ma. Expression, essentiality, and a microtiter plate assay for mycobacterial GlmU, the bifunctional glucosamine-1-phosphate acetyltransferase and N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology，2008;40(11):2560-71

Scientific Research Project

结合分枝杆菌中羧基肽酶Rv3627c在肽聚糖成熟中作用机制的研究，2010-2013（主持人）LT2010026