At the invitation of Prof. Gou Xiaohua and Prof. Yang Xiaoyan from the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Lanzhou University and the Key Laboratory of Western Environment of the Ministry of Education, Associate Professor Zhou Youping from Southern University of Science and Technology will visit our university and give a lecture on 17 April 2023, all students and teachers are welcome to attend!
Speaker:Associate Professor Zhou Youping
Title:Position-Specific Isotope Analysis
Time:17 April 2023 (Monday) 14:30-16:30
Venue:Room 502, Qilian Hall
Speaker Introduction:
ZhouYouping is an Associate Professor at the Department of Marine Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUST). He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Geosciences from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2005. He has exploited the small differences in isotopic abundances and abundance ratios of elements (C, H, O, N, S) present in natural (organic) molecules and specific sites within molecules to reconstruct elemental and material sources, synthesis and metabolic pathways, transport and transformation, and environmental and climate information, and to develop new frontiers of application of natural abundance isotopes in human nutrition, health, and disease diagnosis, and metabolic pathway analysis of key biochemical molecules. In recent years, his team in China has developed a number of new isotopic methods, such as (1) the intramolecularly specific O isotope analysis of glucose at the center of metabolism; (2) the intramolecularly specific O isotope analysis of lignin, which carries important plant physiological and climatic information; (3) an ultra-sensitive simultaneous N and O isotope analysis method for nitrate and nitrite with important environmental and health indications; (4) an intramolecular site-specific C isotope analysis method for fatty acids with important biochemical and biogeochemical implications. His research has been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation under the "Original Exploration Program" and "Surface Program". His original results have been published in Analytical Chemistry, Plant, Cell and Environment, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Phytochemistry, and Organic Geochemistry.
