Director :Prof. Liqiu Xia

College of Life Science

Hunan Normal University

Changsha, Hunan 410081, P. R. China

Email: xialq@hunnu.edu.cn

Phone: 86-731-88872298

Introduction of the lab:

There are 50 researchers in our laboratory, including 18 full professors and 16 associate professors. Among them, there are 9 doctoral supervisors.

The research of our laboratory mainly focuses on the following aspects:

1. Microbe Genetic Engineering and Microbial Pharmaceutical Engineering:The methods for directly cloning large gene cluster, screening wild-type microbes with anti-insect and anti-cancer activities, construction of recombinant microbes with higher yield of active components against insect pests and cancer cells, redesign and produce novel microbial pharmaceuticals utilizing microbial factories, functional genome and proteome research on beneficial microbes.

2. Molecular Virology:Development of novel influenza virus vaccines, including DNA vaccines, subunit vaccines and VLP to improve the present influenza vaccines and search for universal vaccines against various influenza viruses, evaluation of vaccine adjuvants mainly among natural materials, investigation of the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of CMV glycoprotein complex DNA or protein vaccine.

3. Modern Microbiological Technology:To build microbiological molecular diagnosis technologies for bacteria such as ETEC, Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus based on fimbriae/flagellum proteins, virulence islands and other marking proteins or nucleic acids, to remove toxic heavy metals and metalloids from wastewaters by combining with microorganism and chemical technology.