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Wei Niu is a Synthetic Biologist and an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She currently holds three degrees including a Ph.D in Bioorganic Chemistry (Michigan State), M.S. in Biophysics (Tsinghua University), and a B.S. in Chemistry (Tsinghua University).<ref name="UNL Faculty"/> Her research focuses on the metabolic engineering principles that are used for biological microbial-synthesis of industrial additive chemicals from sustainable feedstocks, which also entails the development of enzymes and auxiliary proteins that are used to develop pharmaceutical and other energy-applied molecules.<ref name="UNL Faculty"/>
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