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Li Yuanyou

  • Li Yuanyou

    Name: Li Yuanyou

    Position: Head of Department of Aquatic Animal Nutrition and Feed Science

    Title: Professor

    Contact: yyli16@scau.edu.cn

Personal profile:

Li Yuanyou: male, doctor, second-level professor, doctoral tutor, head of aquatic animal nutrition and feed, national modern agricultural industrial technology system post scientist, enjoys special government allowance experts. He used to be deputy dean of the School of Science at Shantou University, director of the Institute of Marine Biology and director of the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology. 
    The main research direction: aquatic animal nutrition and feed science. He has presided over more than 20 research projects at the provincial and ministerial level including the National Fund's key international cooperation research projects, including 8 national-level projects. He has published more than 110 papers in domestic and international academic journals including the international top comprehensive scientific journal PNAS (Journal of the Academy of Sciences), including 44 SCI papers; 2 editorial works; 10 national invention patents, authorized 5 pieces; 2 scientific and technological achievements were identified, and 1 third prize of provincial scientific and technological progress was awarded (ranked first).    


work experience:

    1989.6-1995.8: Assistant Professor and Lecturer, Department of Fisheries, College of Animal Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University; Secretary of the Party 
    Branch 1998.7-2016.12: Work of the Institute of Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology; Professor of Promotion in 2004, 2011 Hire a second-level professor. 2007.12-2016.12, served as director of the Institute of Marine Biology and director of the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, head of the Marine Biology Department; 2007.12-2009.4, also served as the director of the Department of Biology; 2010.11-2014.3, also served as the deputy dean of the School of Science. 
    2000.11-2002.11: Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Oceanography, University of Tokyo. 
        2014.7-2014.8: Visiting Professor, Institute of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, University of Tokyo. 
          2016.12-present: Professor of Marine Science, South China Agricultural University, second-level professor, head of aquatic animal nutrition and feed discipline.


Education experience:

1982.9-1989.6: Bachelor and Master of Science in Hunan Normal University, Master of Science and Master's Degree, Master of Academician Liu 
Wei, 1995.9-1998.6: Ph.D. student, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Ph.D., Academician Lin Haoran


Awards, honorary titles:

The results of the Research and Application of Integrated Prevention and Control of Green Crab Diseases and Healthy Aquaculture Technology won the third prize of the 2016 Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award (the first person to be completed) and the 
    special government allowance of the State Council (2016) 
    Guangdong Province Sail Plan Cultivate high-level talents (2013) 
    Guangdong Province Higher Education Institute “Thousand Hundred and Ten Projects” Provincial Advanced Training Individuals (2012) 
    Guangdong Higher Education System Excellent Communists (2011) 
    Guangdong Provincial Higher Education School “Thousand Hundred and Ten Projects” Provincial Training Objects (2008) The 
    first “Top Ten Innovative Figures in Shantou City” (2010) 
    Outstanding Talents in Shantou City (2009) 
    Outstanding Academic and Technological Activities of Shantou University Students “Excellent Instructor Award” (2012)


Research areas:

Aquatic animal nutrition and feed science; fish physiology and molecular biology; aquaculture ecology


Research projects:

    He has presided over more than 20 scientific research projects at the provincial and ministerial level, including 8 national-level projects. Representative projects are as follows: 
        1. National Natural Science Foundation of China's key international cooperative research project: molecular interpretation and regulation mechanism of fish HUFA synthesis ability diversity. Project number: 31110103913; implementation period: 2012.1-2017.12; funding: 2.7 million yuan. 
        2. National Fund Project: The mechanism of feed ω3 polyunsaturated fatty acids affecting the reproductive performance of P. sinensis. Project number: 30070599; implementation period: 2001.1-2003.12; funding: 140,000 yuan. 
        3. National Fund Project: The impact of environmental salinity and feed nutrition on HUFA biosynthesis in fish and its mechanism. Project number: 30671629; implementation period: 2007.1-2009.12; funding: 280,000 yuan. 
        4. National Fund Project: Study on the molecular regulation mechanism of the synthesis of highly unsaturated fatty acids in blue mullet. Project number: 30972266; implementation period: 2010.1-2012.12; funding: 310,000 yuan. 
        5. National Fund Project: The mechanism of digestion and utilization of large seaweed by herbivorous marine fish and the feed utilization of seaweed resources. Project number: 41276179; implementation period: 2013.1-2016.12; funding: 820,000 yuan. 
        6. National Fund Project: The mechanism of endocrine disruptors affecting the biosynthesis of fish steroid hormones and its relationship with environmental salinity. Project number: 30570325; implementation period: 2006.1-2008.12; funding: 280,000 yuan. 
        7. National Fund Sino-British International Cooperation and Exchange Project: Analysis and analysis of the regulation of the fatty acid desaturase gene in blue carp. Project number: 31011130156; implementation period: 2010.4 - 2012.3; funding: 47,000 yuan.
        8. National Science and Technology Support Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology: The effective use of seaweed mechanism and application technology for herbivorous marine animals (“Sub-project of ecological restoration of coastal zones near the South China Sea and large-scale seaweed utilization technology and demonstration”). Project number: 2012BAC07B05; implementation period: 2012.1-2015.12; funding: 300,000 yuan. 
        9. Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Research Team Project: The mechanism of marine fish utilization of large seaweed and its application research (2nd core member, 5 in total). Project number: S2011030005257; implementation period: 2011.10-2016.12; funding: 2.5 million yuan. 
        10. Special Research Fund for Doctoral Programs in Higher Education Institutions of Higher Education: Molecular Basic Research on the Functional Specificity of Blueberry Fish Fatty Acid Desaturase Project number: 20104402110002; implementation period: 2011.1-2013.12; funding: 60,000 yuan. 
        11. Key projects of the Guangdong Science and Technology Plan: research and application demonstration of low-value, residual seaweed feed and high-value utilization technologies. Project No.: 2010B030600006; Implementation period: 2010.10-2012.9; Funding: 200,000 yuan. 
        12. Guangdong Province Ministry of Education Industry-University-Research Project: Research and development and application of high-efficiency, low-cost marine fish compound feed. Project No.: 2011B090400039; Implementation period: 2011.10-2013.9; Funding: 200,000 yuan. 
        13. Guangdong Science and Technology Plan Agricultural Research Project: The impact of salinity on the demand for essential fatty acids in fish and the development of feed formulations for broad-salt fish. Project No.: 2005B20301013; Implementation period: 2006.1-2008.12; Funding: 100,000 yuan. 
        14. Guangdong Province “Sailing Plan” to train high-level talents: fish HUFA anabolic regulation mechanism and its application research. Project number: 40010209; implementation period: 2013.10-2016.9; funding: 200,000 yuan.
        15. High-level talent project of higher education institutions in Guangdong Province: HUFA synthesis regulation mechanism and application research of marine fish. Project No.: Guangdong Teacher Letter [2010] No. 79; Implementation Period: 2010.10-2013.12; Funding: 150,000 yuan. 
        16. Major projects for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the demonstration bases of production, study and research in Guangdong universities: demonstration and promotion of disease prevention and control and healthy aquaculture technology application. Project number: cgzhzd0812; implementation period: 2009.1-2011.12; funding: 1 million yuan. 
        17. Guangdong Province “Innovation and Strong School” major scientific research project cultivation project: the regulation mechanism of fish fat metabolism and the development of high-efficiency low-cost marine fish formula. Project number: 2050205 (2051099); implementation period: 2014.1-2016.12; funding: 150,000 yuan. 
        18. Guangdong Province University Innovation Team Construction Project: Aquatic Animal Nutrition Feed and Healthy Breeding. Project No.: 2015KCXTD017; Implementation period: 2016.1-2018.12; Funding: 700,000 yuan.    



        Participated in the compilation of 2 works: 1. Li Yuanyou, Xu Shude. Effective use of blue sea fish for seaweed. Offshore environmental ecological restoration and utilization of large seaweed resources. p. 234-263 (about 45,000 words). Yang Yufeng waiting, Science Press. 2016. 
        2. Li Yuanyou. HUFA synthesis ability and evolution of fish. 10000 scientific problems agricultural science volume, p.789-792. “10000 scientific problems” Editorial Committee of Agricultural Science. Science Press, 2011.


Published papers:

He has published 107 papers in important academic journals at home and abroad, including the international top comprehensive scientific journal PNAS (Professor of the American Academy of Sciences), including 44 SCI papers. Representative papers are as follows: 
          1.Yuanyou Li*, Monroig, O., Zhang, L., Wang, S., Zheng, X., Dick, JR, You, C., Tocher, DR 2010. Vertebrate fatty acyl desaturase with ∆4 activity. PNAS, 107(9): 16840-16845.  
        2.Cuihong You, Danli Jiang, Qinghao Zhang, Dizhi Xie, Shuqi Wang, Yewei Dong, Yuanyou Li*. 2017. Cloning and expression characterization of peroxisome proliferator-activated Receptors (PPARs) with their agonists, dietary lipids, and ambient salinity in rabbitfish Siganus canaliculatus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B, 206: 54–64. 
        3.XIE Dizhi, XU Shude, WU Qingyang, Chen Fang, WANG Shuqi, YOU Cuihong, LI Yuanyou*. 2017. Changes of visceral properties and digestive enzymes in the herbivorous marine teleost Siganus canaliculatus fed on different diets. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, ( In press) 
          4.Shuqi Wang, Xuebing Liu, Shude Xu, Qingyang Wu, Cuihong You, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou Li*. 2017. Total Replacement of Dietary Fish Oil with a Blend of Vegetable Oils in the Marine Herbivorous Teleost Siganus canaliculatus . Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, (in press)
          5.Qinghao Zhang, Shuqi Wang, Cuihong You, Yewei Dong, Óscar Monroig, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou Li*. 2016. The miR-33 gene is identified in a marine teleost: a potential role in regulation of LC-PUFA biosynthesis In Siganus canaliculatus. Scientific Reports, 6, 32909; doi: 10.1038/srep32909.    
        6.Yewei Dong, Shuqi Wang, Junliang Chen, Qinghao Zhang, Yang Liu, Cuihong You, Óscar Monroig, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou Li*. 2016 Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4α (HNF4α) Is a Transcription Factor of Vertebrate Fatty Acyl Desaturase Gene as Identified in Marine Teleost Siganus canaliculatus. PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160361. 
        7.Qinghao Zhang, Cuihong You, Fang Liu, Wendi Zhu, Shuqi Wang, Dizhi Xie, Óscar Monroig, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou Li*. 2016. Cloning and Characterization of Lxr and Srebp1, and Their Potential Roles in Regulation of LC ‐PUFA Biosynthesis in Rabbitfish Siganus canaliculatus. Lipids. 51:1051-1063.  
        8.Dizhi Xie, Fang Chen, Siyuan Lin, Cuihong You, Shuqi Wang, Qinghao Zhang, Óscar Monroig, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou Li*. 2016. Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in the euryhaline herbivorous teleost Scatophagus argus: Functional characterization, tissue expression and and healthy regulation of two fatty acyl elongases. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B. 198: 37-45.
        . 9.Dizhi Xie, Shude Xu, Wang Shuqi, Cuihong by You, Yuanyou of Li * Cloning, expression The Tissue, and Nutritional Regulation of Gene theα-amylase from herbivorous in The Marine teleost Siganus canaliculatus 2016. Aquaculture 454:... 229-236 
        10 .Dizhi Xie, Shuqi Wang, Cuihong You, Fang Chen, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou Li*. 2015. Characteristics of LC-PUFA biosynthesis in marine herbivorous teleost Siganus canaliculatus under different ambient salinities. Aquaculture Nutrition, 21: 541-551. 
        11.Shuqi Wang, Óscar Monroig, GuoxiaTang, Liang Zhang, Cuihong You, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou Li*. 2014. Investigating long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in teleost fish: Functional characterization of fatty acyl desaturase (Fads2) and Elovl5 Elongase in the catadromous species, Japanese eel Anguilla japonica. Aquaculture, 434: 57-65.  
        12.Dizhi Xie, Fang Chen, Siyuan Lin, Shuqi Wang, Cuihong You, Óscar Monroig, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou Li*. 2014. Cloning, functional characterization and nutritional regulation of ∆6 fatty acyl desaturase in the herbivorous euryhaline teleost Scatophagus argus. PLOS ONE, 9 (3): e90200 
        13.Qinghao Zhang, Dizhi Xie, Shuqi Wang, Cuihong You, Óscar Monroig, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou Li*. 2014. miR-17 is involved in the regulation of LC-PUFA biosynthesis in vertebrates: effects on liver expression of a Fatty acyl desaturase in the marine teleost Siganus canaliculatus. BBA - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1841: 934-943.  
        14.YOU Cuihong, ZENG Fangui, WANG Shuqi, and LI Yuanyou*. 2014. Preference of the herbivorous marine teleost Siganus Canaliculatus for different macroalgae. Journal of Ocean University of China, 13(3): 516-522. 
        15.Cuihong You, Wentao Zhang, Shuqi Wang, Christopher HK Cheng, Yuanyou Li*. Evaluation of Green Alga Ulva Pertusa as a Dietary Ingredient for Rabbitfish Siganus Canaliculatus Juveniles. Jacobs Journal of Aquaculture and Research. 2014, 1(1):005 .  
        . 16.Óscar Monroig, Shuqi Wang, Zhang Liang, Cuihong by You, Douglas R. Tocher, Yuanyou of Li * 2012. Elongation of Long-catena alberghiera fatty Acids in rabbitfish Siganus canaliculatus: Cloning, Functional Characterization and Tissue Distribution of ELOVL5-and ELOVL4 -like elongases. Aquaculture, 350-353:63-70. (doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2012.04.017) 
        17.Shude Xu, Shuqi Wang, Liang Zhang, Cuihong You, Yuanyou Li*. 2012. Effects of replacement of dietary fish oil with soybean oil on growth performance and tissue fatty acid composition in marine herbivorous teleost Siganus canaliculatus. Aquaculture Research, 43( 9): 1276-1286 (doi: 10.111/j.1365-2109.2011.02931.x)  
        18.Shude Xu, Liang Zhang, Qingyang Wu, Xuebing Liu, Shuqi Wang, Cuihong You, Yuanyou Li*. 2011. Evaluation of dried Seaweed Gracilaria lemaneiformis as an ingredient in diets for teleost fish Siganus canaliculatus. Aquaculture International, 19: 1007-1018 (DOI: 10.1007/s10499-011-9418-z)
        19. Fang Yan, Yueling Zhang, Ruiping Jiang, Mingqi Zhong, Zhong Hu, Hong Du, Jingsheng Lun, Jiehui Chen, Yuanyou Li*. 2011. Identification and Agglutination Properties of Hemocyanin from the Mud Crab (Scylla serrata). Fish & Shellfish Immunology, 30: 354-360. (10.1016/j.fsi.2010.11.004)  
        20.Yueling Zhang, Fang Yan, Zhong Hu, Xianliang Zhao, Shaoying Min, Zhiheng Du, Shan Zhao, Xiangqun Ye, Yuanyou Li*. 2009 Hemocyanin from Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Shows Hemolytic Activity. Fish & Shellfish Immunology, 27: 
        330-335 .  21.XU Wenju, LI Yuanyou*, WU Qingyang. 2009. Effects of phenanthrene on hepatic enzymatic activities in tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus ♀ × O Aureus ♂). Journal of Environmental Sciences, 21(6): 854-857. 
        22.Li YY*, Xia XA, Wu QY, Liu WH, Lin YS. 2008. Infection with Hematodinium sp. in mud crabs Scylla serrata cultured in low salinity water in southern China. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 82: 145-150. 
        23.Yuanyou Li*, Changbo Hu, Yijun Zheng, Xiaoan Xia, Wenju Xu, Weizhou Chen, Zewei Sun, Junhui Huang. 2008. The effects of dietary fatty acids on liver fatty acid composition and Δ6-desaturase expression differ with ambient salinities in Siganus canaliculatus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Parts B. 151: 183-190.  
        24.Chen, W., Li, Y*., Sun, Z. et al. 2006. Effects of Dietary n-3 HUFA Levels on Lipid Content And Fatty Acid Composition in Tissues of Plectorhynchus cinctus Broodstock. Journal of South China Agricultural University, 27(1): 96-100.
        25.Yuanyou Li, Weizhou Chen, Zewei Sun, Jiehui Chen, Kegang Wu. 2005. Effects of n-3 HUFA content in broodstock diet on spawning performance and fatty acid composition of eggs and larvae in Plectorhynchus cinctus. Aquaculture, 245: 263- 272.  
        26. You Cuihong, Lin Siyuan, Wang Shuqi, Li Yuanyou*.2016. The appropriate amount of fat for juvenile larvae. Journal of Huazhong Agricultural University, 35(5): 90-96. 
        27. Lin Siyuan, You Cuihong, Wang Shuqi Li Yuanyou*.2015. Study on the appropriate requirement of protein for juvenile larvae. Marine Science, 39(6): 39-47. 
        28. Wang Shuqi, Xu Shude, Wu Qingyang, Zhang Liang, Zhang Tao, You Cuihong, Zheng Huaiping, Li Yuanyou* 2010. Study on the appropriate requirements for protein and fat in juvenile blue-spotted juveniles. Marine Science, 34 (11): 18-22. 
        29. Li Yuanyou, Sun Zewei, Chen Weizhou, Chen Jiehui, Wu Kegang, 2004. The broodstock nutritional status on the tail Plectorynchus affect larval survival of Shantou University (Natural Science), 19 (4): 33-37 
        30. Sun Zewei, Liyuan You, Chen Weizhou, Yunxia, Xie Kai Shou, 2004. Cui Yi Bo feed protein content. Effect of non-fish grown in freshwater and seawater Shantou University (Natural Science), 19 (3): 33-37.