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    Dr Yin Chen


    Yin Chen

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    NERC Research Fellow
    Assistant Professor

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    Life Sciences
    Room B121
    University of Warwick
    Coventry
    CV4 7AL
    Tel: 024 76528976
    Email: Y.Chen.25@warwick.ac.uk
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    RESEARCH GROUPS


    • Environmental Microbiology

    BACKGROUND


    Assistant Professor (2012- )
    NERC research fellow (2010- )
    BSc, MSc (Tsinghua, 2002/2005)
    PhD (Warwick, 2008)
    Postdoc (Warwick, 2008-2010)
    Members of Society for Applied Microbiology
    Editorial Board Member of Frontiers in Terrestrial Microbiology

    CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


    • Anaerobic quaternary amine degradation: from single bacterium to salt marsh ecosystem., with Dr Kevin J Purdy - Life Sciences - Professor Colin Murrell - Biological Sciences, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/10/2011 Project End Date: 30/09/2014
    • Towards a systematic understanding of aerobic methylated amine metabolism in the ocean, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/10/2010 Project End Date: 30/09/2013
    • Utilization of methylated amines as alternative nitrogen sources by marine microorganisms, Funded by: Royal Society, Project Start Date: 01/11/2011 Project End Date: 31/10/2012

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    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


    • Y Chen(2012) 'Comparative genomics of methylated amine utilization by marine Roseobacter clade bacteria and development of functional gene markers (tmm, gmaS)' Environmental Microbiology in press (1462-2912) [article]
    • Y Chen, N Patel, A Crombie, J Scrivens, J C Murrell(2011) 'Bacterial flavin-containing monooxygenase is trimethylamine monooxygenase' Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences (USA) 108 (43), 17791 - 17796 (0027-8424) [article]
    • Chen, Y. and Murrell, J. C.(2010) 'Methanotrophs in moss' Nature Geoscience 3 (9), 595 - 596 (1752-0894) [article]
    • Chen, Y. and Murrell, J. C.(2010) 'When metagenomics meets stable-isotope probing: progress and perspectives' Trends In Microbiology 18 (4), 157 - 163 (0966-842X) [article]
    • Chen, Y., Wu, L., Boden, R., Hillebrand, A., Kumaresan, D., Moussard, H., Baciu, M., Lu, Y. and Murrell, J. C.(2009) 'Life without light: microbial diversity and evidence of sulfur- and ammonium-based chemolithotrophy in Movile Cave' The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology 3 (9), 1093 - 1104 (1751-7362) [article]

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    RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

    • Trimethylamine metabolism by marine microbes, Date of Completion: 2014
    • Microbial metabolism of isoprene in terrestrial environments, Date of Completion: 2013

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    School of Life Sciences, Gibbet Hill Campus, The University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
    Email: life dot sciences at warwick dot ac dot uk Tel: +44 (0)24 765 74251 Fax: +44 (0)24 765 23568
    Warwick Crop Centre is located on our Wellesbourne campus.

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