Delin Duan 
Prof. Institute of Oceanology, CAS
No.7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao 266071
P. R. China
Tel/Fax: 0532-82898556
Email:dlduan@qdio.ac.cn
Qualifications:
1996-1999 Post-doc, Tokyo University
1993 Ph.D. Institute of Oceanology, CAS
1991 M.Sc. Ocean University of China
1986 B.Sc. Ocean University of China
Positions held:
2013 Visiting scholar. Harvard University
2010 Visiting scholar. Hokkaido University
2009 Visiting scholar. Stanford University
2003 Visiting scholar. Tohoku University
2000- PI, Prof. Institute of Oceanology, CAS
Research interests:
Algal genetics and breeding, algal genome and functional gene, seaweeds development and culture, seaweeds cultivation and ecological & environmental function, seaweeds food and functional components.
Achievements:
So far, over 150 papers (of which 100 SCI papers) were published, three monographs were published, 3 scientific and technological progress awards were issued from the province and administrations in China.
Selected papers published:
1. Li JJ, Hu ZM, Duan DL 2014. Genetic data from the red alga Palmaria palmata reveal a mid-Pleistocene deep genetic split in the North Atlantic. J. Biogeography. doi:10.1111/jbi.124614.
2. Shao ZR, Zhang PY, Li QY, Wang XL and Duan DL, 2014. Characterization of mannitol-2-dehydrogenase in Saccharina japonica: evidence for a new polyol-specific long-chain dehydrogenases/reductase. Plos ONE. 9(5):e97935
3. Jin WH, Zhang WJ, Wang J, Yao JT, Xie EY, Liu DC, Duan DL, ZhangQB, 2014. A study of neuroprotective and antioxidant activities of heteropolysaccharides from six Sargassum species, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 67:336-3421. 4. Jin WH, Zhang WJ, Wang J, Ren SM, Song N, Duan DL and Zhang QB, 2014. Characterization of laminaran and a highly sulfated polysaccharide from Sargassum fusiforme, Carbohydrate Research 385: 58-642.
5. Groisillier A, ZR Shao, G Miche, S Goulitque, P Bonin, S Krahule, B Nidetzky, DL Duan, C Boyen and T Tonon. 2014. Mannitol metabolism in brown algae involves a new phosphatase. J. Exp. Botany. 65(2):559-570
6. Deng YY, Yao JT, Fu G, Guo H andDuan DL, 2013. Isolation, expression and characterization of blue light receptor AUREOCHROMEgene from Saccharina japonica (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae). Marine Biotechnology 16:135-143
7. Hu ZM, Zhang J, J Lopez-Bautista and Duan DL. 2013. Asymmetric genetic exchange in brown seaweed Sargassum fusiforme (Phaeophyceae) driven by oceanic currents. Marine Biology 160:1407-1414
8. Wang XL, Shao ZR, Fu WD, Yao JT, Hu QP and Duan DL. 2013. Chloroplast genome of one brown alga, Saccharina japonica (Laminariales, Phaeophyta): phylogenomic analysis with other photosynthetic chromists. Marine Genomics 10:1-9
9. Wang SS, Zhao FY, Wei XJ, Lu BJ, Duan DL, Wang GG, 2012. Preliminary study on flg22-induced defense responses in female gametophytes of Saccharina japonica (Phaeophyta). J. Appl. Phycol. 25(4):1215-1223
10. Liu FL, Wang XL, Yao JT, Wang XL, Repnikova A, Galanin DA and Duan DL. 2012. Genetic diversity and structure within and between wild and cultivated Saccharina japonica (Laminariales, Phaeophyta) revealed by SSR markers. Aquaculture. 358/359:139-145
11. Deng YY, Yao JT, Wang XL, Guo H, Duan DL. 2012. Transcriptome sequencing and comparative analysis of Saccharina japonica (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) under blue light illumination. PLoS ONE 7(6):e39704
12. Hu ZM, Uwai S, Yu, SH, Komatsu T, Ajisaka T and Duan DL, 2011. Phylogeographic heterogeneity of the brown macroalga Sargassum horneri (Fucaceae) in the northwestern Pacific in relation to late Pleistocene glaciations and tectonic configurations. Molecular Ecology. 20(18):3894–3909.
13. Hu ZM, Li W, Li JJ and DL Duan, 2011. Post-Pleistocene demographic history of the North Atlantic endemic Irish moss Chondrus crispus: glacial survival, spatial expansion and gene flow. J. Evol. Biol. 24:505-517
14. Cheang CC, Chu KH, Fujita D, Yoshida G, Hiraoka M, Critchley A, Choi HC, Duan DL, Matsuyama-Serisawa K and Jr. Put O. Ang. 2010. Low genetic variability of Sargassum muticum (Phaeophyceae) revealed by a global analysis of native and introduced populations. J. Phycol. 46:1063-1074
15. Hu ZM, Guiry M, Critchley, A and Duan DL, 2010. Phylogeographic patterns indicate trans-Atlantic migration from Europe to North America in red seaweed Chondrus crispus (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). J. Phycol. 46:889-900
16. Wang GL, G Zhao, YB Feng, JS Xuan, JW Sun, BT Guo, GL Jiang, ML Weng, ML Weng, JT Yao, B Wang, DL Duan, T Liu, 2010. Cloning and comparative studies of seaweed trehalose-6-phosphate synthase gene. Marine Drugs. 8:2065-2079
17. Liu FL, Shao ZR, Zhang HN, Liu JD, Wang XL and Duan DL, 2010. QTL mapping for frond length and width in Laminaria japonica Aresch (Laminarales, Phaeophyta) using AFLP and SSR markers. Marine Biotechonlogy 12(4):386-394
18. Zhao FJ, Zhao ZG, Wang AH, Liu JD, Duan DL, 2010. Carpospore early development and callus-like tissue induction of Chrysymenia wrightii (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) under laboratory conditions. J. Appl. Phycol. 22:195-202
19. Liu FL, Wang XL, Liu JD, Yang YX, Fu WD and Duan DL, 2009. Genetic mapping of the Laminaria japonica Aresch (Laminarales, Phaeophyta) using AFLP markers. J. Phycol. 45:1228-1233
20. Fu WD, JT Yao, XL Wang, FL Liu, G Fu and DL Duan, 2009, Molecular cloning and expression analysis of a cytosolic Hsp70 gene from Laminaria japonica (Laminariaceae, Phaeophyta), Marine Biotechnology, 11:738-747.
21. Fu WD, Han BQ, Duan DL, Liu WS, Wang CH, 2008, Purification and characterization of agarases from a marine bacterium Vibrio sp. F-6, J Ind Microbiol & Biotechnol 35:915-922
22. FJ Zhao, FL Liu, JD Liu, Put O Ang and DL Duan, 2008, Genetic structure analysis of natural Sargassum muticum (Fucales, Phaeophyta) populations with RAPD and ISSR markers, J. Appl. Phycol 20:191-198.
23. ZG Zhao, FJ Zhao, JT Yao, JM Lu, Put. O. Ang, DL Duan, 2008, Early development of germinglings of S. thunbergii (Fucales, Phaeophyta) under laboratory conditions, J. Appl. Phycol. 20:925-931.
24. XL Wang, FJ Zhao, ZM Hu, AT Critchely, SL Morrell and DL Duan, 2008, Inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) analysis of genetic variation of Chondrus Stackhouse (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) populations from North Atlantic, Aquatic Botany. 88:154-159
25. Sun JW, Guo BT, Jin DM, Weng ML, Feng YB, Xu P, Duan DL and Wang B. 2006, Development of SSR primers from EST sequences and their application in germplasm identification of Porphyra lines (Rhodophyta), Eur. J. Phycol, 41(3):329-336
