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Baofu Xu
（徐宝福）
Group Leader, Professor
E-mail: bfxu@simm.ac.cn Tel.: (+86)-0535-6821596
Baofu Xu obtained his B.S. in bioengineering from Shandong Agricultural University. He received his Ph.D. from CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences/Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology where he worked to elucidate the biosynthetic pathways of plant-derived natural products with multi-omics and biochemical techniques under the supervision of Prof. Youli Xiao (肖友利). He then started working as a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Jeffrey D. Rudolf at the University of Florida, focusing on bacterial natural product discovery, pathway elucidation, and enzymology. Currently, he is working as a Prof. at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (Yantai Advanced Research Institute), Chinese Academy of Sciences. The main research interests of his lab are natural product chemistry, genome mining, and biosynthesis-related studies. In his spare time, he enjoys biking, running, and meditation.