Feiyan Liang

Feiyan Liang serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in the Section for Plant Biochemistry. Her research integrates biochemical, enzymatic, and metabolic approaches to investigate critical plant processes with biotechnological applications.

Her core research domains include:

• Plant Biochemistry and Natural Product Biosynthesis
• Photosynthetic Mechanisms and Regulation
• Metabolic Engineering of Plant Pathways
• Enzymology of Cytochrome P450 Systems
• Metabolic Flux Analysis in Microorganisms

Current investigations focus on elucidating taxol biosynthesis pathways for anti-cancer drug development and dissecting Photosystem II water-access channels through advanced mutagenesis and mass spectrometry techniques. Her work demonstrates strong interdisciplinary collaboration across biochemistry, biophysics, and synthetic biology, targeting both fundamental mechanisms and biotechnological applications in plant systems.

Dr. Liang maintains active research output with publications in high-impact journals including Nature Synthesis, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Photosynthesis Research, reflecting significant contributions to plant biochemistry and metabolic engineering fields.