Dr. Li Rui

Associate Researcher

Coconut Research Institute (CRI)

Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS)

Address: 496 Wenqing Road, Wenchang Hainan 571339 P.R. China

Phone: +86-898-63331201

Fax: +86-898-63330673

E-mail: Ruilihn@catas.cn

Dr. Li achieved her Master’s degree in January 2006 from Jiagnan University, and obtained her PhD in December 2016 from Deakin University. She worked at Coconut Research Institute since July 2006. She was mainly engaged in the processing of virgin coconut oil (VCO), palm oil, industrial production of VCO, oil quality control and their functional property analysis and activity evaluation from 2006 to2012. Her PhD project is about chemical synthesis, characterization and applications in regenerative medicine of self-assembling peptide scaffold. During her PhD, she won Coltman Prize: Medical Researcher of the year awarded by Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University and Early Career Researcher Award (up to 5 years post PhD) awarded by Royal Australian Chemical Institute. Now her research focused on functional food and post-harvest physiology, storage and transport technology and betel nut processing. She has published 25 papers, in which 7 SCI papers. She has undertaken or participated 10 national, provincial and ministerial-level and key horizontal cooperation projects, won the 3rd prize awarded by China Grain and Oil Association.

Publications:

1.     San Seint Aye*, Rui Li*, Mitchell Boyd-Moss, Ben Long, Sivapryia Pavuluri, Kiara Brugemann, Yi Wang, Colin Barrow, David Nisbet, Richard Williams. Scaffolds formed via the non-equilibrium supramolecular assembly of the synergistic ECM peptides RGD and PHSRN demonstrates improved cell attachment in 3D cell culture. Polymers, 2018, 10(7),690-702.

2.     Rui Li, Natasha L. McRae, Daniel R. McCulloch, Mitchell Boyd-Moss, Colin J. Barrow, David R. Nisbet, Nicole Stupka, Richard J. Williams. Large and Small assembly: Combining functional macromolecules with small peptides to control the morphology of skeletal muscle progenitor cells. Biomacromolecules. 2018, 19, 825-837.

3.     Rui Li, Mitchell Boyd-Moss, Benjamin Long, Anne Martel, Andrew Parnell, Steven Parnell, Andrew J.C. Dennison, Colin J. Barrow, David R. Nisbet, Richard J. Williams. Facile control over supramolecular ordering of self-assembled peptide scaffolds by simultaneous assembly with a polyelectrolyte polysaccharide. Scientific Reports. 2017, 7, 1-8.

4.     Qiuyu Xia, Bo Wang, Taiwo Akanbi, Rui Li, Wenrong Yang, Benu Adhikari, Colin J Barrow. Microencapsulation of lipase produced omega-3 concentrates resulted in complex coacervates with unexpectedly high oxidative stability. Journal of functional foods. 2017, 35, 499-506.

5.     Minmin Tang, Qiuyu Xia, Brendan J. Holland, Hui Wang, Yufeng Zhang, Rui Li, Hongxing Cao. Effects of different pretreatments to fresh fruit on chemical and thermal characteristics of crude palm oil. Journal of Food Science. 2017, 82(12), 2857-2863.

6.     Conor C. Horgan, Alexandra L. Rodriguez, Rui Li, Kiara F. Bruggeman, Nicole Stupka, Jared K. Raynes, Li Day, John W. White, Richard J. Williams, David R. Nisbet. Characterisation of minimalist co-assembled fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl self-assembling peptide systems for presentation of multiple bioactive peptides. Acta Biomaterialia. 2016, 38, 11-22.

7.     Rui Li, Sivapriya Pavuluri, Kiara F. Bruggeman, Benjamin M. Long, Andrew J. Parnell, Anne Martel, Steven R. Parnel, Frederick M. Pfeffer, Andrew J.C. Dennison, Kevin R. Nicholas, Colin J. Barrow, David R. Nisbet and Richard J. Williams. Coassembled bioscaffold reduces the expression of proinflammatory cytokines to induce apoptosis in epithelial cancer cells. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. 2016, 12(5), 1397-1407.

8.     Alexandra L. Rodriguez, Ting-Yi Wang, Kiara F. Bruggeman, Rui Li, Richard J. Williams, Clare L. Parish, and David R. Nisbet. Tailoring minimalist self-assembling peptides for localised viral vector gene delivery. Nano Research, 2016, Nano Research. 2016, 9(3): 674-684.  

9.     Rui Li, Conor Horgan, Benjamin Long, Alexandra L. Rodriguez, Colin J. Barrow, David R. Nisbet, Richard J. Williams. Tuning the mechanical and morphological properties of self-assembled peptide hydrogels via control of ionic strength and rate of pH change. RSC Advances. 2015, 5, 301-307.

10.    Shane M. Hickey, Shani K. Tripcony, Rui Li, Richard J. Williams, Frederick M. Pfeffer. Organogelators based on the norbornane scaffold. Supramolecular Chemistry. 2015, 27 (5-6), 425-435.

11.    Vengama N. Modepalli, Alexandra L. Rodriguez, Rui Li, Sivapriya Pavuluri, Kevin R. Nicholas, Colin J. Barrow, David R. Nisbet, Richard J. Williams. In vitro response to functionalized self-assembled peptide scaffolds for three-dimensional cell culture. Peptide Science. 2014, 102, 197-205. 

12.    Alexandra L. Rodriguez, Ting Y. Wang, Kiara F. Bruggeman, Conor Horgan, Rui Li, Richard J. Williams, Clare L. Parish, David R. Nisbet.In vivo assessment of grafted cortical neural progenitor cells and host response to functionalized self-assembling peptide hydrogels and the implications for tissue repair. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2014, 2, 7771-7778.

13.    Yong Zhou, Chengsheng Jia, Rui Li, Xiaoming Zhang, Wensen He, Jingjing Li, Biao Feng, Qiuyu Xia. An efficient and expeditious synthesis European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology of phytostanyl esters in a solvent-free system. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology. 2012, 114(8), 896-904.

14.    Rui Li, Qiuyu Xia, Minmin Tang, Songlin Zhao, Weijun Chen, Xintao Lei, Xinpeng Bai. Chemical composition of Chinese palm fruit and chemical properties of the oil extracts. African Journal of Biotechnology. 2012, 11(39), 9377-9382.

15.    Qiuyu Xia, Rui Li, Songlin Zhao, Weijun Chen, Hua Chen, Bo Xin, Yulin Huang, Minmin Tang. Chemical composition changes of post-harvest coconut inflorescence sap during natural fermentation. African Journal of Biotechnology. 2011, 10(66), 14999-15005.

16.    Rui Li, Chengsheng Jia, Lin Yue, Xiaoming Zhang, Qiuyu Xia, Songlin Zhao, Biao Feng, Fang Zhong, Weijun Chen.Lipase-catalyzed synthesis of conjugated linoleyl β-sitosterol and its cholesterol-lowering properties in mice. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 2010, 58 (3): 1898–1902.