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Joining the University of California, San Diego, Yanran Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Previously, Li was an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at UC Riverside from 2016 to 2023. Li earned Bachelor's degrees in Chemistry from Nankai University and Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University in 2007. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2012, followed by postdoctoral training at Caltech, and Stanford from 2013 to 2016. Li's research focuses on synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, plant metabolism, and chemical biology, blending chemistry and biology to study plants using engineering techniques. Her group specializes in creating microbial cell factories to gain insights into plant metabolism and immunity, with the goal of cultivating sturdier plants equipped to withstand a range of challenges, including pests and changing environmental conditions due to climate change. Her work has been recognized with the NIH Director's New Innovator Award and the NSF CAREER Award.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).