Name:YANG Zhen-Nai
Gender: Male
Degree: Ph.D
Title: Professor
Organization: School of Food Science, Beijing Technology and Business University
Education Experience:
Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Finland, 2000
M. S., Northeast Agricultural College, China, 1988
B.S., Jiangxi Agricultural University, China, 1985
Work Experience:
March 2012 – present, Professor of School of Food Science, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
August 2005 – January 2006, Professor of College of Food Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
February 2006 – February 2012, Research Professor of Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
February 2003 - July 2005, Research Scholar of Biomolecular Science Center of the University of Central Florida, USA
May 2002 – January 2003, Research Scholar of Biotechnology Research Center of the Ohio State University, USA
July 2000 – May 2002, Postdoctoral Fellow of Peking University, China
July 1999 – December 1999, Research Scholar of Arrhenius Laboratory of the Stockholm University, Sweden
March 1992 – September 1992, Research Scholar of Food Research Institute of the Agriculture and Agrifood Research Center, Finland
July 1988 – March 1992, Assistant Researcher of Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Rewards:
Nuoren tutkijan apuraha (Scholarship), University of Helsinki, 1995
Top Ten Prominent People in China Dairy Industry, 2006
Middle-aged Professional Technological Talent with Outstanding Contribution in Jilin Province, 2006
Candidate for the “National Talent Project in the New Millennium”, 2009
Innovative Talent in the “Chang Bai Hui Gu Project”, 2012
Prominent Postdoctoral Advisor of Jilin Province, 2012
Second Prize for National Science Development of Shandong Province, 2010
Second Prize for the Academic Achievements in Science of Jilin Province, 2012
Research Area:
Biotechnology of lactic acid bacteria
Enzymes and enzymatic properties in dairy industry
Dairy safety and controlling technology
Research and application of clotting properties of raw milk
Publication:
Representative papers:
1. Zhang L., Liu C., Li D., Zhao Y., Zhang X., Zeng X., Yang Z.*, Li S.*, Antioxidant activity of an exopolysaccharide isolated from Lactobacillus plantarum C88, Int. J. Biol. Macromol, 54:270-275, 2013
2. Zhang L., Zhang X., Liu C., Li C., Li S., Li T., Li D., Zhao Y., Yang Z.*, Manufacture of Cheddar cheese using probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum K25 and its cholesterol-lowering effects in a mice model, World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol, 29:127-135, 2013
3. Yu Z., Zhang X., Li S., Li C., Li D., Yang Z.*, Evaluation of probiotic properties of Lactobacillus plantarum strains isolated from Chinese Sauerkraut, World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol, 29:489-498, 2013
4. Li S., Zhao Y., Zhang L., Zhang X., Huang L., Li D., Niu C., Yang Z.* and Wang Q.*, Antioxidant Activity of Lactobacillus plantarum strains Isolated from Traditional Chinese Fermented Foods, Food Chemistry, 135:1914-1919, 2012
5.Li T., Wang J., Li Y., Zhang L., Zheng L., Li Z., Yang Z.*,Luo Q.*, Structure of the complex between Mucor pusillus pepsin and the key domain of κ-casein for site-directed mutagenesis: a combined molecular modeling and docking approach, J. Mol. Modeling, 17(7):1661-1668, 2011
6. Zhang T., Zhang C., Li S., Zhang Y., Yang Z.*, Effect of cultural conditions on exopolysaccharide production by Streptococcus thermophilus ST1, Brazilian J. Microbiol, 42:1470-1478, 2011
7. Zhang Y., Li S., Zhang C., Luo Y., Zhang H., Yang Z.*, Effects of culture conditions on growth and exopolysaccharide production by Lactobacillus fermentum F6, Afr. J. Biotechnol., 10(11):2080-2091, 2011
8. Yang Z.*, Li S, Zhang X, Zeng X, Li D, Zhao Y, Zhang J., Capsular and slime-polysaccharide production by Lactobacillus rhamnosus JAAS8 isolated from Chinese sauerkraut: Potential application in fermented milk products, J. Biosci. Bioeng, 110(1): 53-57, 2010
9. Säwén E., Huttunen E., Zhang X., Yang Z, Widmalm G.*, Structural analysis of the exopolysaccharide produced by Streptococcus thermophilus ST1 solely by NMR spectroscopy, J. Biomol. NMR, 47: 125- 134, 2010
10. Yang Z., Rogers M. L, Song Y., Guo W., Kolattukudy P.E.*, Homoserine and asparagine are host signals that trigger in planta expression of a pathogenesis gene in Nectria haematococca, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. , 102:4197-4202, 2005 (SCI, IF 10.27)
11. Urbina F., Nordmark E.-L., Yang Z., Andrej W., Scheutz F., Widmalm G.*, Structural elucidation of the O-antigenic polysaccharide from the enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strain 180/C3 and its immunochemical relationship with Escherichia coli O5 and O65, Carbohydrate Research,340: 645-650, 2005
12. Nordmark E. L., Yang Z., Huttunen E., Widmalm G.*, Structural studies of an exopolysaccharide produced by Streptococcus thermophilus THS, Biomacromolecules,6:105-108, 2005
13. Nordmark E.-L., Yang Z., Huttunen E., Widmalm G.*, Structural studies of an exopolysaccharide produced by Propionibacterium shermani JS, Biomacromolecules, 6:521-523, 2005
14. Larsson E.A., Urbina F., Yang Z.,Andrej W., Widmalm G.*, Structural and immunochemical relationship between the O-antigenic polysaccharides from the enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strain396/C1 and Escherichia coli O126, Carbohydrate Research,339:1491-1496, 2004
15. Landersjö C., Yang Z., Huttunen E., Widmalm G.*, Structural studies of an exopolysaccharide produced by Lactobacillus rhamnosus strain GG (ATCC 53103), Biomacromolecules,3:880-884, 2002
16. Staaf M., Yang Z., Huttunen E., Widmalm G.*, Structural elucidation of a viscous exopolysaccharide produced by Lactobacillus helveticus Lb161, Carbohydrate Research,326:113-119, 2000
17. Yang Z., Huttunen E., Staaf M., Widmalm G.*, Structure of a viscous exopolysaccharide produced by Lactobacillus helveticus K16, Carbohydrate Research, 329:465-469, 2000
Major work:
"New Technologies in Dairy Processing", 2013
Coauthored works:
"Handbook of Modern Dairy Industry", 2012
"Development of Milk Cows Industry in Year 2011", 2012
