Pengfei Cheng, Ph.D.

  Associate Professor

  Department of Marine Pharmacy

  College of Food and Pharmaceutical Sciences

  Ningbo University

  Email: [email protected]

Professional Background

Ph.D., Biochemical Engineering with Specialization in Microalgae cultivation and production for functional value-added products, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2011-2014 (Advisor: Prof. Tianzhong Liu).

Postdoc, School of Water Resource and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, 2016-2018 (Advisor: Prof. Defu Liu).

Visiting scholar, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), 2019-2020 (Advisor: Roger Ruan).

Summary

Our research mainly engaged in microalgae culture and algae stress resistance biology research. In recent years, some progress has been made in using microalgae to treat all kinds of wastewater and produce high value chemicals. The future direction will mainly focus on the aquaculture wastewater treatment with microalgae and the production of high-value products. We have presided over more than 10 projects and our research have published more than 20 papers.

Research Interests

· Microalgae culture and production for functional value-added products

· Algal ecology and resource utilization

· Biology study of high value algae for stress

· Comparative study of wastewater treatment and nutrient recycle via microalgae

Main Teaching

Course Instructor, Marine medicinal biological resources (392P22B)

Course Instructor, Ocean and human civilization (134TS2C)

Selected Publications

(1) Cheng PF, Ji B, Gao LL, Zhang W, Wang JF, Liu TZ. The growth, lipid and hydrocarbon production of Botryococcus braunii with attached cultivation. Bioresource Technology. 2013, 138, 95-100.

(2) Cheng PF, Wang JF, Liu TZ. Effects of nitrogen source and nitrogen supply model on the growth and hydrocarbon accumulation of immobilized biofilm cultivation of B.braunii. Bioresource Technology. 2014, 166, 527-533.

(3) Cheng PF, Wang JF, Liu TZ. Effect of cobalt enrichment on growth and hydrocarbon accumulation of B.braunii with immobilized biofilm attached cultivation. Bioresource Technology. 2015, 177, 204-208.

(4) Cheng PF, Wang Y, Yang QY, Liu TZ. Comparison of growth, hydrocarbon accumulation and metabolites of Botryococcus braunii between attached cultivation and aqueous-suspension cultivation. Int J Agric & Biol Eng. 2017, 10(1): 134-141.

(5) Cheng PF, Wang YZ, Liu TZ, Liu DF. Biofilm attached cultivation of Chlorella Pyrenoidosa is a developed system for swine wastewater treatment and lipid production. Frontiers in plant science. 2017, 8 :1594.

(6) Cheng PF, Wang Y, OSEI-WUSU D, Liu TZ, Liu DF. Development of nitrogen supply strategy for Scenedesmus rubescens attached cultivation toward growth and lipid accumulation. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering. 2018, 41 (3) :435-442.

(7) Cheng PF, Zhou CX, Wang Y, Xu ZH, Xu JL, Zhou DQ, Zhang YH, Wu HZ, Zhang XZ, Liu TZ, Tang M, Yang QY, Yan XJ, Fan JH. Comparative transcriptome analyses of oleaginous Botryococcus braunii race A reveal signifcant diferences in gene expression upon cobalt enrichment. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2018, 11:333.

(8) Cheng PF, Okada S, Zhou CX, Chen P, Huo SH, Li K, Addy M, Yan XJ, Ruan R. High-value chemicals from Botryococcus braunii and their current applications–A review. Bioresource Technology, 2019, 291: 121911.   (9) Cheng PF, OSEI-WUSU D, Zhou CX, Wang Y, Xu ZH, Chang T, Huo SH. The effects of refractory pollutants in swine wastewater on the growth of Scenedesmus sp. with biofilm attached culture. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 2019, 9: 1-10.

(10) Cheng PF, Muylaert K, Cheng J, Liu H, Chen P, Addy M, Zhou CX, Yan XJ, Ruan R. Cobalt enrichment enhances the tolerance of Botryococcus braunii to high concentration of CO2. Bioresource Technology, 2020, 122385.

(11) Cheng PF, Cheng J, Cobb K, Zhou CX, Zhou N, Addy M, Chen P, Yan XJ, Roger R. Tribonema sp. and Chlorella zofingiensis co-culture to treat swine wastewater diluted with fishery wastewater to facilitate harvest. Bioresource Technology, 2020, 122516.

(12) Cheng PF, Chen DJ, Liu W,Cobb K, Zhou N, Liu YH, Liu H, Wang Q, Chen P, Zhou CX, Ruan R. Auto-flocculation microalgae species Tribonema sp. and Synechocystis sp. with T-IPL pretreatment to improve swine wastewater nutrient removal. Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 138263.