Faculty Members



Dr. Ke Chen 

Assistant Professor at The Laboratory for Functional Metabolomics Science, SCSB, SJTU. 


Academic Profile

Dr. Ke Chen is an assistant professor from Haitao Lu Group in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Dr. Chen is a scientist working on molecular biology, cell biology, and microorganism metabolism over 6 years. During last a few years, as the first author she published three high quality papers (The plant Journal, Planta et al) in molecular biology field. She has rich experience on analyzing metabolites by using LC/MS QTOF, LC/MS QQQ and GC/MS QQQ.

Professional and Educational Experience

Assistant Professor (2016- ) Laboratory for Functional Metabolomics Science, Shanghai Center for Biosystems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

Ph.D. (2012-2016) Institute of Molecular Biology of Plants (IBMP, CNRS), Strasbourg University, France

M.Sc. (2009-2012) Fermentation Engineering, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Jiang Nan University

B.Sc. (2005-2009) Biology Engineering, South-Central University for Nationalities

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Ke Chen, François Dorlhac de Borne, Emilie Julio, Julie Obszynski, Patrick Pale, Léon Otten. Root-specific expression of opine genes and opine accumulation in naturally occurring GMO tobacco cultivars. The Plant Journal. (2016). Epub ahead of print.

Ke Chen, Léon Otten. Morphological analysis of the 6b oncogene-induced enation syndrome. Planta. (2016) 243:131-48.

Ke Chen, Francois Dorlhac de Borne, Erno Szegedi and Léon Otten. Deep sequencing of the ancestral tobacco species Nicotiana tomentosiformis reveals multiple T-DNA inserts and a complex evolutionary history of natural transformation in the genus Nicotiana. The Plant Journal. (2014) 80, 669-682.

 

 

Graduate Students


Guan Xu

Master Student

Email: guan.xu@hotmail.com

Guan earned a B.SC. in Pharmaceutical Science, at the China Pharmaceutical University in 2013, and he joined the Lu Group in September 2014. 

He is combining metabolomics and genetic methods to identify and characterize novel siderophores biosynthesized by high pathogenicity island in E. coli.



Hao Guo 


PhD Student 

Email: hao.guo1982@hotmail.com 

Hao earned a B.SC. in Applied Chemistry, at the Shenyang University of Chemical Technology in 2004. He entered Analytical Chemistry Program, conducted Master Thesis at the National Police University of China, and he joined the Lu Group in September 2015 as a PhD Student.  

He is working on Metabolic phenotyping of Acute Intake of Alcohol implicated in the healthy risk.


Qiao Su

Master Student 

Email: qiao.su@hotmail.com

Qiao earned a B.SC. in Pharmaceutical Science at the China Pharmaceutical University in 2013, and she joined the Lu Group in September 2014. 

Her research concentrates on the regulatory mechanisms of siderophore biosynthesis on the virulence associated interactive metabolome in E. coli.  



Mengpei Feng

Master Student

Email: mengpeifeng@hotmail.com

Pengpei earned a B.SC. in Chinese Materia Medica, at the Hebei University in 2014, and she joined the Lu Group in September 2014. 

She is developing biochemical and metabolomics methods to investigate the systems effects of AA in HK-2 cell line that involve therapeutic and toxic mechanisms. 



Lab Alumni 

Qiang Li (M.S., 2016), Pending 

Xiaojuan Guo (M.S., 2016), Pending 

Tainbing Guan (M.S., 2016), Associate Lecturer at Chongqing University of Sci and Tech 

Leyu Yan (M.S., 2015),  Scientist at the West China Hospital in Chongqing, China

Wenna Nie (M.S., 2015), Scientist at the China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute in Zhengzhou, China

Jiaoyan Chen (B.SC., 2014), Scientist at Hangzhou Bio-sincerity Pharma-tech Corp., Ltd, Hangzhou, China

Hui Zhang (B.SC., 2015), Master Student at the Tianjing University, Tianjing, China