About Yahui Gao’s work
From October 2004 to April 2005, Yahui Gao held a Croucher Visitorship at the Open University of Hong Kong. At the time, Gao was based at Xiamen University.
Biography
Yahui Gao received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Xiamen University in 1984, 1987 and 1990, respectively, and was a visiting scholar at Gakuun University in Japan from 1996 to 1998. From 1999 to 2003, he served as the Vice Dean of the School of Life Sciences and the Director of the Anti-Cancer Research Center of Xiamen University.
Gao has been committed to the research of diatom biology and algae utilization for a long time, mainly studying the classification and diversity of diatoms, undertook the compilation and research of the spore flora of China, discovered 15 new diatom species and 150 new recorded species in China. In recent years, the diversity and ecological roles of important diatom groups such as red tide diatoms and biological epigenetic diatoms, the characteristics and mechanisms of important cellular activities such as the formation/deformation of diatom siliceous shells, epiphysitics and toxinization, the physiological ecology and molecular biological mechanisms of phytoplankton response to environment and climate change have been studied.