Personal Data:

B.S. 1985 (Botany), Department of Biology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China.

M.S.  1988 (Hydrobiology), Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P. R. China.

Ph.D. 1998 (Biology), Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.

Research Experience:

Sep. 1988-Jul. 1993  Research Associate, Department of phycology, Institute of Hydrobiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.

Aug. 1994 - March 1998  Graduate Research Assistant in Dr. M. M. Watanabe’s Laboratory at the University of Tsukuba and National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan.

July 1999 - April 2001  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

May 2001 – Dec. 2003  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dec. 2003 – Sept. 2005  Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Tennessee.

Sept. 2005 – now  Professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, "Hundred Scientist Project"

1. Diversity and phylogeny of cyanobacteria, especially water bloom forming cyanobacteria

2. Molecular monitoring of toxic cyanobacteria in Chinese waters as a warning tool to drinking water system

3. Evolutionary history among cyanobacterial organisms using multi-genetic and genomic evidences.

Lin S., Wu Z., Yu G., Zhu M., Yu B. and Li R.* 2009. Genetic Diversity and Molecular Phylogeny of Planktothrix (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) Strains from China. Harmful Algae (In press).

Wu Z. and Li R*. 2009. Physiological comparison of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii with Microcystis aeruginosa and Aphanizomenon flos-aqaue. Harmful Algae (In press)

Shao J., Wu X. and Li R*. 2009. Physiological Responses of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806 to Nonanoic Acid Stress.Environmental Toxicology (in Press)

Shao J., Wu Z.,Yu G., Peng X. and Li R*. 2009.Allelopathic mechanism of pyrogallol to

Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806 (Cyanobacteria): From views of gene expression and antioxidant system. Chemosphere 75:924-928

Gao E., Yuan X., Li R*. and Zhang Q. 2009. Isolation of a novel cyanophage infectious

to the filamentous cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii (Cyanophyceae) from Lake Donghu, China. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 54:163-170

Li, R*., Wilhelm, S. W., Carmichael, W. W. and Watanabe, M. M. 2008. The

morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular characterization of two strains of Raphidiopsis (Cyanobacteria) from a fishpond in central China. Harmful Algae  7:146-153。

Wu, Z., Song, L. and Li, R*. 2008. Different tolerance and responses to low temperature

and  darkness between waterbloom forming cyanobacterium Microcystis and a green alga Scenedesmus. Hydrobiologia 596：47-55

Xu, Y., Wu, Z., Yu, B., Yu，G., Peng X.，Wang, G. and Li, R*. 2008. Microcystis

wesenbergii (Komarek)Komarek (Cyanobacteria) representing a main waterbloom forming species but non-microcystin-producer in China. Environmental Pollution 2156: 162-167

Li, R., Potters, M. B., Shi, L. and Shi and Kennelly. P. J. 2005. The protein phosphatases of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803: open reading frames sll1033 and sll1387 encode enzymes that exhibit both protein-serine and protein-tyrosine phosphatase activity in vitro. Journal of Bacteriology 187:5877-84