Seminar

Actinobacteria play a quite important role in natural ecological system and they are also prolific  producers of antibiotics, antitumor agents, enzymes, enzyme inhibitors and immunomodifiers. In the past 15 years, Dr. Wen‐Jun Li and his group has isolated, identified and validly published many new prokaryotic taxa in international journals, including 1 new class (Thermoflexia), 5 new suborders/orders (Actinopolysporineae, Kineosporiineae, Jiangellineae, Thermoflexales, Kallotenuales), 10 new families (Kallotenuaceae, Thermoflexaceae, Actinopolysporaceae, Kineosporiaceae, Beutenbergiaceae, Cryptosporangiaceae, Jiangellaceae, Ruaniaceae, Yaniaellaceae, Sinobacteraceae), over 38 new genera and 330 new species, from diverse terrestrial extremophilic environments, such as hot springs, salt lakes, saline mines, as well as traditional Chinese medicinal plant endophyte and marine ecosystems. His presentation will specially introduce his experience on the research of biodiversity of Actinobacteria in those unusual environments and the unique mechanisms of extremophilic actinobacteria to adapt those unusual environments based on biomics methods.