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.Su X., Jiao R.，Liu Z., Xia Y, Cao Y*. Functional and characteristic analysis of an appressorium-specific promoter PMagas1 in Metarhizium acridum. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology.2021，182:107567
2.Su X, Yan X, Chen X, Guo M, Xia Y*, Cao Y*. Calcofluor white hypersensitive proteins contribute to stress tolerance and pathogenicity in entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium acridum. Pest Manag Sci 2021; 77: 1915–1924
3.Li J, Guo M, Cao Y*, Xia Y*. Disruption of a C69-family cysteine dipeptidase gene enhances heat shock and UV-B tolerances in Metarhizium acridum. Front Microbiol. 2020, 11:849.
4.Xie M, Zhou X, Xia Y*, Cao Y*. Mid1 affects ion transport, cell wall integrity, and host penetration of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium acridum. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2019,103(4):1801-1810.
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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.
10.Yu Y., Cao Y., (共同第一作者) Xia Y., Liu F. Wright–Giemsa staining to observe phagocytes in Locusta migratoria infected with Metarhizium acridum. J. Invertebr. Pathol.2016, 139: 19–24
11. 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
Twelve master students and one phD. student have been graduated. Currently there are three graduate students and one phD student.
Contact information
Email: yueqingcao@126.com
