Zhao Guoping, molecular microbiologist, born in Shanghai in 1948, is a professor of Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (IPPE), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Currently, his major administrative positions are executive director of the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai (CHGCS) and director of the National Engineering Center for BioChip at Shanghai. He is also a professor and director of the Department of Microbiology and Microbial Engineering, School of Life Science, Fudan University. He obtained his B.S. of Microbiology from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 1982 and Ph.D. of Biochemistry from Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, USA in 1990. He was the first production manager of Shanghai Promega Biological Products, Ltd. when he returned back to China in 1992. He joined the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, CAS in 1995 as a professor, director of the Microbiology Laboratory and later the deputy director of the institute. He was the director of Shanghai Research Center of Biotechnology, CAS from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he was the vicepresident of SIBS responsible for research and planning. From 2002, he left his post at the SIBS headquarter and gradually moved to the current positions. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for Biotechnology of the State High Technology Development Program (863) from 1996 to 2005 and was elected the academician of the CAS in 2005.

    Prof. Zhao has been working on the structurefunction relationship and reaction mechanisms of microbial enzymes since his graduate studies. Based on these studies, he is also interested in developing microbial and/or protein engineering technology for industrial application of these enzymes. He developed molecular genetics manipulation systems for studying rifamycin production in a rare actinomycete, Amycolotopsis mediterranei and has been working on cloning and characterizing genes related to the bacterial global regulation, coordinating the primary and secondary metabolisms. 

      
Other members

Huanchun Chen, Zixin Deng, Jian Chen, Fu Gao, Nianzhi Jiao, Peng Li, Min Lin, Shuangjiang Liu, Zihe Rao, Yuhui Sun, Tianwei Tan, Shengli Yang