Work Experience
Sep. 2014 to date Professor, Chongqing university, China
Sep. 2015-Sep. 2016 Visiting scholor, University of Maryand, USA
Sep. 2008-Aug. 2014 Research associate professor, Chongqing univeristy, China
Dec. 2007-Mar. 2009 Postdoc, Mississippi state University, USA,
Sep. 2005-Aug. 2008 Assistant professor, Chongqing University
Jul. 2000-Aug. 2002 Researcher,Hebei Yiling Pharmacetical Group Company, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
Education:
Sep. 2002-Jun. 2005 Chongqing University, China Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering
Sep.1999-Jun. 2000 Southwestern Agricultural University, China Master’s in Cell Biology
Sep.1993-Jun. 1997 Hebei University, China Bachelor’s in Microbiology
Research interests
I work on entomopathogenic fungi, and manly focus on the mechanisms of pathogenecity, conidiation, stress tolerance, interaction between fungi and host insect and interaction between engomopathogenic fungi and plants.
Courses
Microbiology in our life; Techniques for genetic engineering
Academic position
Member of Chongqing Society for Microbiology
Major achievement
Rescent Pulications:
1. Zhang E, Cao Y*, Xia Y* (2018) Ethanol dehydrogenase I contributes to growth and sporulation under low oxygen condition via detoxification of acetaldehyde in Metarhizium acridum. Front. Microbiol. 9:1932
2. Xie M., Xia Y., Cao Y.*(2018) The Rab GTPase activating protein Gyp2 contributes to UV stress tolerance in Metarhizium acridum. World J Microbiol Biotech (2018) 34:78
3. Li G., Fan A., Peng G., Keyhani NO., Xin J., Cao Y.*, Xia Y*. A bifunctional catalase-peroxidase, MakatG1, contributes to virulence of Metarhizium acridum by overcoming oxidative stress on the host insect cuticle. Environ Microbiol 2017, 19 (10): 4365–4378
4. Chen X., Liu Y., Keyhani NO., Xia Y.*, Cao Y.* The regulatory role of the transcription factor Crz1 in stress tolerance, pathogenicity, and its target gene expression in Metarhizium acridum. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2017, 101:5033–5043
5. Cao Y.*, Du M., Luo S., Xia Y*. Calcineurin modulates growth, stress tolerance, and virulence in Metarhizium acridum and its regulatory network. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2014, 98:8253–8265.
6.Yu Y., Cao Y., (Co-first author) Xia Y., Liu F. Wright–Giemsa staining to observe phagocytes in Locusta migratoria infected with Metarhizium acridum. J. Invertebr. Pathol.2016, 139: 19–24
7. Luo S., He M, Cao Y*. Xia Y*. The tetraspanin gene MaPls1 contributes to virulence by affecting germination, appressorial function and enzymes for cuticle-degradation in the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium acridium. Environmental Microbiology 2013, 15 (11): 2966-2979.
Postgraduate training
Ten graduate students under my supervision have been graduated. Four graduate students are in graduate school.
Contact information
Email: yueqingcao@126.com
