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Yingfei Ma Ph.D, Professor

Principal Investigator, Center for Synthetic Microbiome

Center for Synthetic Microbiome
E-mail: yingfei.ma@siat.ac.cn
Address: 1068 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen University Town, Shenzhen, China

I am a Professor in the Institute of Synthetic Biological, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I obtained a Ph.D in Microbiology from the institute of microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing, China, in 2009. And then I recieved Postdoc training in microbial metagenomics at the University of California, San Diego. In 2011, I was employed as a research scientist in studying the association of human microbiome and human disease at New York University, School of Medicine. In 2015, I became a Principal investigator runing microbiome lab. Currently, my lab focuses on phageome, phage synthetic biology and phage therapy in treating the infections of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Our studies are supported by various grants more than ten million Yuan from Shenzhen government and Chinese National Science Foundation.    


Experience for Education and work


Education

Sept. 2005-Apri. 2009, Ph.D., Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


Work

Sept. 2015-Now, Shenzhen Advanced Institute of Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lab PI. Associate Professor

Sept. 2012-Sept.2015, York University School of Medicine, Research Scientist

May. 2011-Sept.2012, York University School of Medicine, Postdoc

Jun. 2009-May.2011, University of California, San Diego, Postdoc scholar