Yunpeng Wang

Dr Yunpeng Wang is a Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews. His research focuses on marine microbial chemistry, antibiotic discovery, and viral-microbe interactions. He collaborates extensively on projects involving microbial metabolites, enzymatic mechanisms, and the metabolic impacts of viral infections on aquatic organisms.

Key research areas include the isolation and synthesis of novel marine natural products, genetic dissection of antibiotic biosynthetic pathways, and understanding viral influences on cyanobacteria's metabolic processes. His work bridges organic chemistry, microbiology, and environmental science, with applications in drug discovery and marine biotechnology.

Dr Wang has contributed to high-impact studies published in journals like Marine Drugs, Biomolecules, and Nature Chemistry. His recent research emphasizes the exploration of marine viruses as sources of novel bioactive enzymes and the development of heterologous expression systems for antibiotic production.