About Yuguang Du’s work
Based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuguang Du held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Baptist University from October 2000 to February 2001.
Biography
Yuguang Du graduated from the Department of Biology of Shaanxi Normal University in 1985, and in the same year, he engaged in the research of microbial ecology in the microbiology group of the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and obtained a master’s degree in microbial ecology in 1990. From 1994 to 2013, he worked at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and served as the head of the natural products and sugar engineering course.
In 2016, he was elected as a leading talent in science and technology in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and in 2021, he was elected as a Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. His main research interests include the research of glycan chain synthetic biology, nutritional sugar biology and glycobioengineering technology, revealing the absorption, metabolism and functional regulation process of oligosaccharide signals in vivo, researching the new technology of preparing functional oligosaccharides of medicinal and edible homologous Chinese herbal medicines.