Academic Career

Seit 03/2024	Research Assistant (Postdoc) at the Professorship for Fungal Biotechnology in Wood Science (Prof. Dr. J. Philipp Benz)
03/2022 – 12/2023	Postdoc at the HZI (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Research Area Novel Antibiotics, Braunschweig, Germany) (Prof. Dr. Marc Stadler)
03/2021 - 02/2022	Postdoc at the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Laboratory of Fungal Genetics and Metabolism) (Miroslav Kolařík, PhD.)
10/2016 - 09/2020	PhD in natural product chemistry, (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Research Area Novel Antibiotics, Braunschweig, Germany) (Prof. Dr. Marc Stadler)
09/2013 - 06/2016	M.Sc. Biophysics, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China
09/2009 - 06/2013	B.Sc. Biology, Yuncheng University, Yuncheng, China

Research Areas

• Identification of bioactive metabolites, evaluation of bioactivities of secondary metabolites, genome assembly and analysis, investigation of biosynthesis of secondary metabolites

• PhD: "Tropical Basidiomycota–a prolific source of novel natural products with prominent biological activities"

• M.Sc.: "Identification and comparative genomics study of the TPS family of cruciferous plants"

Publications

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3540-8247

• Cedeño-Sanchez M, Cheng T, Lambert C, Kolarík M, Kuhnert E, Cox R, Kalinowski J, Verwaaijen B, Stadler M. Unraveling intragenomic polymorphisms in the high-quality genome of Hypoxylaceae: a comprehensive study of the rDNA cistron. Mycological Progress. 2024, 23: 5. 

• Cheng T, Veselská T, Křížková B, Švec K, Havlíček V, Stadler M, Kolařík M. Insight into the genomes of dominant yeast symbionts of European spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus. Front. Microbiol. 2023, 14: 930. 

• Cheng T, Kolařík M, Quijada L, Stadler M. A re-assessment of Taxomyces andreanae, the alleged taxol-producing fungus, using comparative genomics. IMA Fungus. 2022, 13 (1): 17. 

• Mapook A, Hyde KD, Hassan K, Kemkuignou BM, Čmoková A, Surup F, Kuhnert E, Paomephan P, Cheng T, et al. Ten decadal advances in fungal biology leading towards human well-being. Fungal Divers. 2022, 116 (1): 547-614. 

• Cheng T, Chepkirui C, Decock C, Matasyoh JC, Stadler M. Heimiomycins A–C and calamenens from the African Basidiomycete Heimiomyces sp. J.Nat.Prod. 2020, 83: 2501-2507. 

• Cheng T, Chepkirui C, Decock C, Matasyoh JC, Stadler M. Sesquiterpenes from an eastern African medicinal mushroom belonging to the genus Sanghuangporus. J.Nat.Prod. 2019, 82: 1283-1291.