1.生物制药: 抗菌活性物; 生物表面活性剂；绿色生物农药

2.抗生素生物转化

3.合成生物学：人工混菌系统

本科生课程：生物制药工艺学；细胞生物学

研究生课程：细胞培养工程

(1)教育部新世纪优秀人才计划获得者（2011）；

(2)主持国家重点研发计划课题2项、国家“973”计划子课题2项、国家自然科学基金项目5项、天津市自然科学基金（重点项目）1项。

(3)以通讯作者在Chemical Engineering Journal、Metabolic Engineering、Journal of Hazardous Materials、Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry、ACS Synthetic Biology等国内外高水平期刊发表SCI收录论文60余篇，第一发明人授权国家发明专利16项。

 Tian-Xu Duan, Kai-Ge Song, Hui-Zhong Sun, Wei Shang, Jing-Sheng Cheng*. Intensifying bioconversion of rich-capsaicinoids food waste into fengycin by the tolerant-artificial consortium. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 505:159389.

 Zheng-Jie Hou, Hai-Meng Lai, Chun-Yang Cao, Qiu-Man Xu*, Jing-Sheng Cheng*. Targeted knockout and plasmid-based transfer of NRPS/PKS for improving lipopeptide iturin A synthesis. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2025, 302:140610.

 Si-Yu Wei, Geng-Rong Gao, Ming-Zhu Ding, Chun-Yang Cao, Zheng-Jie Hou, Jing-Sheng Cheng*, Ying-Jin Yuan. An Engineered Microbial Consortium Provides Precursors for Fengycin Production by Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Natural Products, 2024, 87(1):28-37.

 Hui-Zhong Sun, Si-Yu Wei, Qiu-Man Xu*, Wei Shang, Qing Li, Jing-Sheng Cheng*, Ying-Jin Yuan. Enhancement of polymyxin B1 production by an artificial microbial consortium of Paenibacillus polymyxa and recombinant Corynebacterium glutamicum producing precursor amino acids. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 2024, 9(1): 176-185. doi.org/10.1016/j.synbio.2024.01.015

 Zheng-Jie Hou, Chun-Yang Cao, Geng-Rong Gao, Ming-Zhu Ding, Qiu-Man Xu*, Jing-Sheng Cheng*. Improved iturin A production of engineering Bacillus amyloliquefaciens by knockout of endogenous plasmid and rap phosphatase genes. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2024, 72(20):11577-11586.

 Hui-Zhong Sun, Qing Li, Wei Shang, Bin Qiao, Qiu-Man Xu*, Jing-Sheng Cheng*. Combinatorial metabolic engineering of Bacillus subtilis for de novo production of polymyxin B. Metabolic Engineering, 2024, 83:123-136.

 Yu-Miao Zhang, Bin Qiao, Wei Shang, Ming-Zhu Ding, Qiu-Man Xu, Tian-Xu Duan, Jing-Sheng Cheng*. Improving salt-tolerant artificial consortium of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens for bioconverting food waste to lipopeptides. Waste Management, 2024, 181:89-100.

 Chun-Yang Cao, Zheng-Jie Hou, Ming-Zhu Ding, Geng-Rong Gao, Bin Qiao, Si-Yu Wei, Jing-Sheng Cheng*. Integrated biofilm modification and transcriptional analysis for improving fengycin production of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. Probiotics Antimicrob Proteins, 2024, doi: 10.1007/s12602-024-10266-8.

 Jia-Xuan He, Zheng-Jie Hou, Bin Qiao, Ming-Zhu Ding, Chun-Yang Cao, Yu-Miao Zhan, Qiu-Man Xu*, Jing-Sheng Cheng*. Integration of engineering microbial consortium and boosting extracellular amylase of B. amyloliquefaciens for intensifying bioconversion of food waste into lipopeptides . Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2024, 12: 113161.

 Wei Shang; Yu-Miao Zhang; Ming-Zhu Ding; Hui-Zhong Sun; Jia-Xuan He; Jing-Sheng Cheng*. Improved engineered fungal-bacterial commensal consortia simultaneously degrade multiantibiotics and biotransform food waste into lipopeptides. Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, 371, 123177.

 Geng-Rong Gao, Si-Yu Wei, Ming-Zhu Ding, Zheng-Jie Hou, Dun-Ju Wang, Qiu-Man Xu, Jing-Sheng Cheng*, Ying-Jin Yuan. Enhancing fengycin production in the co-culture of Bacillus subtilis and Corynebacterium glutamicum by engineering proline transporter. Bioresource Technology, 2023, 383:129229.

 Song Bai, Bin Qiao, Zheng-Jie Hou, Geng-Rong Gao, Chun-Yang Cao, Jing-Sheng Cheng*, Ying-Jin Yuan. Mutualistic microbial community of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and recombinant Yarrowia lipolytica co-produced lipopeptides and fatty acids from food waste. Chemosphere, 2023, 310:136864.