Journal of Probiotics & Health
Open Access

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore

Biography

Yuan Kun Lee is working in Photosynthesis remains the only mean for recycling of carbon dioxide. To achieve a realistic productivity and carbon dioxide removal for industrial application, we use genetic engineering and physiological approaches to enhance the rate of carbon dioxide fixation, channelling of fixed carbon to high carbon products of photosynthetic algae, and release of the carbon products into the culture media. Through over expression of genes encoding for rate-limiting enzymes in Calvin recycle and glycerol cycle, the photosynthetic efficiency of alga Duniella was increased by 4-folds, and the total glycerol yield increased by 10-folds.

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Personalized Probiotics Based on Phenotypes and Dietary Habit: A Critical Evaluation
  Author(s): Yuan Kun Lee*
  
  It is now established that probiotics are strain-dependent, to further advance the concept of probiotic in the maintenance of health and treatment of dysbiosis, the scope of personalized probiotics need to be defined. Currently, probiotic products are marketed worldwide, with the assumption that probiotics with demonstrated health effects work on all people, irrespective of the genetic (ethnicity), environment (geographical location), dietary habit and life style. The effectiveness of probiotics are determined by 1) interactions with prevailing gastrointestinal (GI) commensal microbes, in promoting the establishment of beneficial microbes and elimination of pathogens, 2) Interaction with the host, in achieving a desirable probiotic effect, 3) Interaction with diet, to survive, proliferate and colonize GI, albeit temporary, and in the production of beneficial bioactive metabolites, such a.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-8901.1000205

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