Bao-Jian Ding
What I work with
My research spans from moth pheromone biosynthesis genes to plant expression insect derived genes. I have cloned a terminal fatty-acyl-CoA desaturase gene from winter moth, the first desaturase with such special activity. I'm currently working with moth pheromone production by using plants.
Background
I was born in 1982, in a small city in northeast of China, and spent 7 years in Harbin for my Bachelor degree in forestry and Master degree in forest tree genetics and breeding, in Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China. In 2008 I started as PhD student in the Pheromone group, studying pheromone variation and speciation in moths. My thesis was defended in Feb 2014.

Publications
Retrieved from Lund University's publications database
Publications
- 2016
- Sequence variation determining stereochemistry of a delta-11 desaturase active in moth sex pheromone biosynthesis
(2016) Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Journal article - The Yeast ATF1 Acetyltransferase Efficiently Acetylates Insect Pheromone Alcohols: Implications for the Biological Production of Moth Pheromones.
(2016) Lipids
Journal article - Two fatty acyl reductases involved in moth pheromone biosynthesis
(2016) Scientific Reports
Journal article
- Sequence variation determining stereochemistry of a delta-11 desaturase active in moth sex pheromone biosynthesis
- 2015
- Analysis of the Agrotis segetum pheromone gland transcriptome in the light of sex pheromone biosynthesis
(2015) BMC Genomics
Journal article
- Analysis of the Agrotis segetum pheromone gland transcriptome in the light of sex pheromone biosynthesis
- 2014
- A plant factory for moth pheromone production
(2014) Nature Communications
Journal article - On the way of making plants smell like moths - a synthetic biology approach
(2014)
Dissertation
- A plant factory for moth pheromone production
- 2011
- Terminal fatty-acyl-CoA desaturase involved in sex pheromone biosynthesis in the Winter Moth (Operophtera brumata)
(2011) Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Journal article
- Terminal fatty-acyl-CoA desaturase involved in sex pheromone biosynthesis in the Winter Moth (Operophtera brumata)

Research group
Projects
- Evolutionary mechanisms of pheromone divergence in moths and butterflies – pheromone-mediated assortative mating and speciation
- The pheromone brewery: Production of insect pheromones in plants and yeast cell factories
Postdoc host
Downloads & links
Thesis (pdf, 4 MB)