since 03/2023
Scientist, Department of Environmental Microbiology
Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig
2018 - 2022
Post-doc fellow, Colorado State University, United States
2013 - 2018
PhD Xiamen University, China
2014 - 2017
Joint PhD program Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
2009 - 2012
MS Nanjing University of Technology, China
2005 - 2009
BS Huanggang Normal University, China
2023
- T. Cao*, Y. Bai*, P. Buschbeck, Q. Tan, M. Cantrell, Y. Chen, Y. Jiang, R. Liu, N. Ries, X. Shi, Y. Sun, M.Ware, F. Yang, H. Zhang, J. Han, L. Zhang, J. Huang, M. Lohr, G. Peers, X. Li (2023)
An unexpected hydratase synthesizes the green light-absorbing pigment fucoxanthin.
The Plant Cell. DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad116
2022
- Y. Bai*, T. Cao*, O. Dautermann*, P. Buschbeck, M. Cantrell, Y. Chen, C. Lein, X. Shi, M. Ware, F Yang, H. Zhang, L. Zhang, G. Peers, X. Li, and M. Lohr (2022)
Green diatom mutants reveal an intricate biosynthetic pathway of fucoxanthin.
PNAS. Vol. 119, No.38 e2203708119
2018
- Y. Bai, T Chen, T. Happe, Y. Lu and A. Sawyer (2018)
Iron-sulphur cluster biogenesis via the SUF pathway.
Metallomics. 10: 1038-1052. (Journal cover article)
2017
- A. Sawyer*, Y. Bai*, Y. Lu, A. Hemschemeier and T. Happe (2017
Compartmentalisation of [FeFe]-hydrogenase maturation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Plant J., 90:1134-1143
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