Associate Professor Mingyang Ma at the Institute of Emerging Agricultural Technology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, has long been engaged in research on algal ecology and biotechnology. He has led and participated in more than 10 research projects, including key R&D programs, international cooperation projects, general programs, and youth projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology, as well as the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Funding and the Hubei Province Postdoctoral Innovation Research Position Support.

He has published over 20 SCI papers and been granted 4 invention patents. He has received the Silver Award in the Shandong Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the Silver Award in the first Hubei Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the Outstanding Award in the second National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

Synthetic biology of microalgae

Resource utilization of microalgae

Chloroplast development of mixotrophs

Education Background

2014-2019,Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD

2010-2014,College of Innovation and Experiment, Northwest A & F University, Bachelor

Professional Experience

2025.01-to date, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology

2021.09-2024.12,Shenzhen University, Associate Researcher

2019.08-2021.08,Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Post-doctorate

2022-to date, Co-Mentor (with Prof. Qiang Hu) of Ph.D Sana Irshad, Shenzhen University,

2022-2023, Co-Mentor (with Prof. Qiang Hu) of Master Qingda Tian, Shenzhen University

2017-2019, Co-Mentor (with Dr. Yingchun Gong) of Master Fuchen Wang, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2022 Teaching Assistant, Applied Phycology, Shenzhen University

1.Mingyang Ma, Qiang Hu. Microalgae as feed sources and feed additives for sustainable aquaculture: Prospects and challenges. Reviews in Aquaculture, 2023：12869. (中科院一区，IF=11.1)

2.Mingyang Ma, Wentao Yang, Hong Chen, Wanwan Ke, Yingchun Gong, Qiang Hu. Transcriptional profile reveals the physiological responses to prey availability in the mixotrophic chrysophyte Poterioochromonas malhamensis. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024.

3.Mingyang Ma, Chaojun Wei, Wenjie Huang, Yue He, Qiang Hu. A systematic review of the predatory contaminant Poterioochromonas in microalgal culture [J]. Journal of Applied Phycology, 2023: 1-12.

4.Mingyang Ma, Fuchen Wang, Chaojun Wei, Jianping Chen, Hu Jin, Hongxia Wang, Qiang Hu, Yingchun Gong. Establishment of high-cell-density heterotrophic cultivation of Poterioochromonas malhamensis contributes to achieving biological control of Microcystis. Journal of Applied Phycology, 2022, 34:423-434.

5.Mingyang Ma, Chaojun Wei, Man Chen, Hongxia Wang, Yingchun Gong, Qiang Hu. Effects of nutritional mode on the physiological and biochemical characteristics of the mixotrophic flagellate Poterioochromonas malhamensis and the potential ecological implications. Microorganisms, 2022, 10(5):852.

6.Mingyang Ma, Yanhua Li, Jianping Chen, Fuchen Wang, Li Yuan, Yi Li, Baocai Zhang, Ding Ye, Danxiang Han, Hu Jin, Qiang Hu. High-cell-density cultivation of the flagellate alga Poterioochromonas malhamensis for biomanufacturing the water-soluble β-1, 3-glucan with multiple biological activities. Bioresource Technology, 2021, 337:125447.

7.Mingyang Ma, Chaojun Wei, Hongxia Wang, Cuicui Sha, Man Chen, Yingchun Gong, Qiang Hu. Isolation and evaluation of a novel strain of Chlorella sorokiniana that resists grazing by the predator Poterioochromonas malhamensis. Algal Research, 2019, 38, 101429.

8.Mingyang Ma, Danni Yuan, Yue He, Minsung Park, Yingchun Gong*, Qiang Hu*. 2017. Effective control of Poterioochromonas malhamensis in pilot-scale culture of Chlorella sorokiniana GT-1 by maintaining CO2-mediated low culture pH. Algal Research, 2017, 26: 436-444.

9.Mingyang Ma, Yingchun Gong*, Qiang Hu*. Identification and feeding characteristics of the mixotrophic flagellate Poterioochromonas malhamensis, a microalgal predator isolated from outdoor massive Chlorella culture. Algal Research, 2018, 29:142-153.

10.Hanwen Zhang, Qing He, Xiaoying Jiang, Hongxia Wang, Yulu Wang, Mingyang Ma, Qiang Hu, Yingchun Gong. A new algivorous heterolobosean amoeba, Euplaesiobystra perlucida sp. nov. (Tetramitia, Discoba), isolated from pilot-scale cultures of Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Microbiology Spectrum, 2023, e00817-23.

11.He Qing, Zhang Hanwen, Ma Mingyang, He Yue, Jia Jing, Hu Qiang, Gong Yingchun. Critical assessment of protozoa contamination and control measures in mass culture of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Bioresource Technology, 2022, 359, 127460.

12.Yue He, Mingyang Ma, Yingchun Gong, Qiang Hu. Assessment of NH4HCO3 for the control of the predator flagellate Poterioochromonas malhamensis in pilot-scale culture of Chlorella sorokiniana. Algal Research, 2021, 60: 102481.

13.Xianhui Wang, Huannan, Xueling Zhan, Mingyang Ma, Danni Yuan, Qiang Hu, Yingchun Gong. Development and application of quantitative real-time PCR based on the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene for early detection of the grazer Poterioochromonas malhamensis contaminating Chlorella culture. Algal Research, 2021, 53: 102133.

14.Wei Chaojun†, Wang Hongxia†, Ma Mingyang, Gong Yingchun*, Hu Qiang*. Factors affecting the mixotrophic flagellate Poterioochromonas malhamensis grazing on Chlorella cells. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2020, 67(2): 190-202.

15.Chen Man, Mingyang Ma, Hongxia Wang, Qiang Hu, Yingchun Gong. Re-description and phylogenetic analysis of the mixotrophic protist Poterioochromonas malhamensis [J]. Journal of Hydrobiology, 2020, 44(5): 1130-1142.

16.Lan Wang, Danni Yuan, Yanhua Li, Mingyang Ma, Qiang Hu*, Yingchun Gong. Contaminating microzooplankton in outdoor microalgal mass culture systems: An ecological viewpoint. Algal Research, 2016, 20, 258-266.

17.Fang Cheng, Mingyang Ma, Hong Ji, et al. Alterations of digestive enzyme activities, intestinal morphology and microbiota in juvenile paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, fed dietary probiotics. Fish Physiology & Biochemistry, 2015, 41(1):91-105.