[Basic circumstance]

Cheng jun , male , mongol nationality , Doctor of Science , associated professor in College of Biotechnology, Beijing University of Agriculture, Master tutor.

He received his Bachelor degree on Science of Chinese Materia Medica in Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in 1991, master and Ph. D. degree on natural products chemistry in School of Pharmaceutical Science of Peking University in 1999, and 2004, respectively. Then he finished his postdoctoral research work at the University of the West Indies in Barbados in 2005, at Niigata University in Japan from 2005 to 2007, and at the Pharmacy, Biology, Biotectchnology Institute of Dusseldorf University in Germany in 2008. Now, he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture (North) Key Laboratory as leader of public research platform and vice chairman of Labour Union in the Biological Science and Engineering of Beijing University of Agriculture from 2009.

[Main courses]

Undergraduate:  biosafety

[Main research directions]

Focus on 1. Study on structure and function of secondary metabolites.

2.  Study on the cyclic reaction mechanism of squalene hopen cyclase (SHC)

[Representative results]

（1）       Caixia Ding, Lingling Zhao, Fuyong Liu, Jun Cheng*, Jingxia Gu, Shan Dan, Chenyang Liu, Xiaozhong Qu*, Zhenzhong Yang*. Dually Responsive Injectable Hydrogel Prepared by In Situ Cross-Linking of Glycol Chitosan and Benzaldehyde-Capped PEO-PPO-PEO. Biomacromolecules 2010, 11, 1043-1051. (IF 5.479)

（2）       Jun Cheng, Tsutomu Hoshino. Cyclization cascade of C33-bisnorheptaprenoid catalyzed by recombinant squalene cyclase, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1689–1699. (IF 3.696)

（3）       Wen-Bing Yin, Alexander Grundmann, Jun Cheng and Shu-Ming Li. Acetylaszonalenin biosynthesis in Neosartorya fischeri: Identification of the biosynthetic gene cluster by genomic mining and functional proof of the genes by biochemical investigation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2009, 284, 100-109. (IF 4.773)

（4）        Wen-Bing Yin, Jun Cheng and Shu-Ming Li. Stereospecific synthesis of aszonalenins. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2009, 7: 2202-2207. (IF 3.696)

（5）       Shuyu Zhang, Jun Cheng, Wenjing Chen，Xiaomei Liang, Yuying Zhao. Interactions between thrombin and natural products of Millettia nitita var.hirsutissima using capillary zone electrophoresis. Journal of Chromatography B, 2009;877:4107–4114. (IF 2.888)

 [Contact]

Address: Beinong Rd. 7, Huilong guan, Changping District, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing, 102206, P.R. China.

Zip: 102206

Office Telephone: 86-80797303

Email：chengjun@bac.edu.cn