Position: Associate Professor
School/Academic Group: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Email：zengxb@whu.edu.cn

Education:

1993.09 – 1997.06 Huazhong Agricultural University, Bachelor

1997.09 – 2002.07 Huazhong Agricultural University, Ph.D.

Working Experience:

From August 2002 to July 2004, Sun Yat-sen University, Postdoc

From August 2004 to present, Wuhan University, Associate Professor

From August 2007 to August 2008, University of Western Ontario, Canada, Visiting scholar

From March 2015 to February 2016, Augusta University, the United States, Visiting scholar

Current Teaching Interests/Responsibilities:

Fermentation Engineering, Experiment of Fermention Engineering

Research Interests:

Currently mainly engaged in the research of physiologically active substances from natural sources, screening, separating and analyzing natural physiologically active compounds from microorganisms, animals and plants, and studying their structures, physical and chemical properties, pharmacological effects, biosynthesis, etc.

Research on the processing and development of agricultural and sideline products, as well as the development, preservation and processing of corresponding functional foods with active functions.

Research on the biocompatibility of bio-based materials with mammalian cells and the application research of tissue repair.

Research on the drug delivery routes based on nanomaterials.

Publications:

1. Xiaobo Zeng, Darcy P. Small and Wankei Wan. Statistical optimization of culture conditions for bacterial cellulose production by Acetobacter xylinum BPR 2001 from maple syrup. Carbohydrate Polymers, in press,  doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2011.02.034
2. Zeng Xiaobo, Wang haiying, He Linyu, Lin Yongcheng, Li Zhongtao. Medium optimization of carbon and nitrogen sources for the production of eucalyptene A and xyloketal A from Xylaria sp. 2508 using response surface methodology. Process Biochemistry. Process Biochemistry, 41 (2006) 293–298
3. Wang Hai-Ying, Zeng Xiao-Bo, Guo Si-Yuan, Li Zong-Tao. Effects of magnetic field on the antioxidant defense system of recirculation-cultured Chlorella vulgaris. Bioelectromagnetics. 2008, 29(1): 39-46
4. Jing Liu, Haiying Wang, Mengdan Fang, Xuexin Chen And Xiaobo Zeng(通讯作者). A human cell polarity protein Lgl2 regulates influenza A virus nucleoprotein exportation from nucleus in MDCK cells, Journal of Biosciences, volume 45, Article number: 67 (2020)