Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Food safety, Biodegradation of pollutants

　　Zhang L., Gan L., Xu Z., Yang F., Li Y., Fan X., Liu X., Tian Y., Dai Y.* (2018) Pedobacter chitinilyticus sp. nov., a chitin-degrading bacterium isolated from the leaf tissues of wheat, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68: 3713-3719. (*通讯作者)

　　Dai Y.*, Zhang L., Li Y., Li Y., Deng X., Wang T., Yang F., Tian Y., Li N., Zhou X., Liu X., Li W.(2018) Characterization of Trichococcus paludicola sp. nov., and Trichococcus alkaliphilus sp. nov. isolated from Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, China, by phenotypic and genomic analyses, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68: 99-105.

　　Li Y., Zhang L., Liu, L., Tian Y., Liu X., Li W., Dai Y.*(2017) Paludicola psychrotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant chitinolytic anaerobe of the family Ruminococcaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 67: 4100-4103.

　　Wang, M., Zhang, X., Zhou, J., Yuan, Y., Dai, Y., Li, D., Li, Z., Liu, X. and Yan, Z. (2017) The dynamic changes and interactional networks of prokaryotic community between co-digestion and mono-digestions of corn stalk and pig manure. Bioresource Technology 225: 23-33.

　　Dai Y*., Yan Z., Jia L., Zhang S., Gao L., Wei X., Mei Z., Liu X.(2016) The composition, localization and function of low-temperature-adapted microbial communities involved in methanogenic degradations of cellulose and chitin from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau wetland soils. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 121:163-176.

　　Dai Y., Toley B, Swoffold C and Forbes N. (2013) Construction of an inducible cell-communication system that amplifies Salmonella gene expression in tumor tissue. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 110: 1769-1781.

　　Fan Y., Dai Y., Cheng Q., Zhang G., Zhang D., Fang P., Wu H., Bai L., Deng Z., Qin Z. (2012) A self-ligation method for PCR-sequencing the telomeres of Streptomyces and Mycobacterium linear replicons. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 90 (2): 105-107.

　　Dai Y., Normand M. Weiss J. and Peleg M. (2010) Modeling of efficacy of triplet antimicrobial combinations: yeast suppression by lauricarginate, cinnamic acid, and sodium benzoate or potassium sorbate as a case study. Journal of Food Protection, 73: 515–523.

　　Dai Y., McLandsborough L, Weiss J, and Peleg M. (2010) Concentration and application order effects of sodium benzoate and eugenol mixtures on the growth inhibition of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Zygosaccharomyces bailii. Journal of Food Science, 75: M482-488.

　　The discovery and function study of microbial cold-adapted chitinases resources in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. 2019-2022. National Natural Science Foundation of China. (PI)

　　Developing chitinase-related strategies to prevent wheat fungal pathogen infection. 2017-2019. Chengdu Science and Technology Huimin project. (PI)

　　Chitinolytic microbes in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau and their antagonistic function to the plant pathogenic fungi 2017-2019. The Open Fund of the Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science. (PI)

　　Development and application of low-temperature-adapted microbial cellulase and chitinase. 2015-2017. Science and Technology Project of Sichuan Province. (PI)

　　Enrichment of psychrophilic biogas-producing bacteria in the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau fens by solid surface adhesion, and the mechanism of their methane productivity at low temperatures. 2014-2016. National Natural Science Foundation of China. (PI)

　　Developing multi-functional microbial inocula to improve the performance of biogas fermentation at low temperatures. 2013-2015. West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (PI)

　　Amplified, persistent drug production in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium as a delivery system for breast cancer therapy. 2010. Rays of Hope, United States. (co-PI)

　　Anticancer drug transport and apoptosis-inducing dynamics in tumor microenvironment gradient mimicking microfluidic device. 2010. Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Center of Excellence in Apoptosis Research, United States. (Awardee)