Mengyi Wang
Contact
Tel: 0711-459-22223
Fax: 0711-459-22238
Mail
Research interests
"I am interested in the control of c-di-AMP homeostasis in the Gram-positive human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. In my PhD thesis, I will try to figure out how the activity of the essential diadenylate cyclase CdaA is regulated."
Education - professional experience
10/2018 - present, PhD thesis, University of Göttingen, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, University of Hohenheim, Germany
09/2015 - 06/2018, Master degree (M. Sc.), Sichuan Agricultural University, China
09/2011 - 06/2015, Bachelor degree (B. Sc.), Sichuan Agricultural University, China
Publications
Schwedt I, Wang M, Gibhardt J, Commichau FM (2023) Cyclic di-AMP, a multifaceted regulator of central metabolism and osmolyte homeostasis in Listeria monocytogenes. µLife, 4: uqad005.
Wang M, Wamp S, Gibhardt J, Holland G, Schwedt I, Schmidtke KU, Scheibner K, Halbedel S, Commichau FM (2022) Adaptation of Listeria monocytogenes to perturbation of c-di-AMP metabolism underpins its role in osmoadaptation and identifies a fosfomycin uptake system. Environ Microbiol. 24: 4466-4488.
Gibhardt J Hoffmann G Turdiev A Wang M Lee VT Commichau FM (2019) c-di-AMP assists osmoadaptation by regulating the Listeria monocytogenes potassium transporters KimA and KtrCD. J Biol Chem 294: 16020-16033.
Liu M Tian X Wang M Zhu D Wang M Jia R Chen S Zhao X Yang Q Wu Y Zhang S Huang J Tian B, Chen X Liu Y Zhang L Yu Y Biville F Pan L Rehman MU Cheng A (2019) Development of a markerless gene deletion strategy using rpsL as a counterselectable marker and characterization of the function of RA0C_1534 in Riemerella anatipestifer ATCC11845 using this strategy. PLoS One 14: e0218241.
Wang M Zhang P Zhu D Wang M Jia R Chen S Sun K Yang Q Wu Y Chen X Biville F Cheng A Liu M (2017) Identification of the ferric iron utilization gene B739_1208 and its role in the virulence of R. anatipestifer CH-1. Vet Microbiol 201: 162-169.
Liu M Wang M Zhu D Wang M Jia R Chen S Sun K Yang Q Wu Y Chen X Biville F Cheng A (2016) Investigation of the TbfA in Riemerella anatipestifer using plasmid-based methods for gene overexpression and knockdown. Sci Rep 6: 37159.