Editorial feature: Meet the PCP editor—Yonghua Li-Beisson
Résumé
Yonghua Li-Beisson received a B.Sc. from Henan University of Technology, China, and a Ph.D. from the University of Hull (England), where her work highlighted the importance of reducing power for lipid synthesis in oleaginous fungi. She then conducted postdoctoral research at Michigan State University focusing on understanding seed oil biosynthesis as well as dissecting the molecular pathways of lipid polyester synthesis and assembly. Since 2009, Yonghua is a staff scientist at the French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission in France. Her current work focuses on dissecting lipid metabolism in microalgae, in particular using the model green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Li-Beisson et al. 2019). In addition to leading her research team, she is also a director of the lipidomics platform HelioBiotec (https://www.cite-des-energies.fr/biam/plateformes-technologiques/heliobiotec/). Since 2016, Yonghua is a serving editor for Plant and Cell Physiology and handles papers in the area of plant and algal lipid metabolism and physiology