贾美荣，研究员，博士生导师。山东大学制药工程专业学士，山东大学药物化学专业硕士，美国Iowa State University生物化学专业博士，从事活性萜类生物合成研究。获得北京市科技新星计划等项目资助。
     院校引进人才，2021年加入院校，曾在美国University of California, Davis进行博士后研究工作，主要从事植物萜类合成生物学研究。

致力于药用植物活性物质的挖掘、生物合成和合成生物学研究。在国际上首次解析了中药抗生素“穿心莲内酯”的完整生源途径，结合人工智能，解析了多个萜类合酶的新催化机制，实现了众多萜类产物的高效生物合成。迄今承担10余项国家和省部级等科研课题，以第一或通讯作者在Angewandte Chemie International Edition、ACS Catalysis等国际期刊发表论文和论著30余篇。担任植物代谢专业委员会委员以及《Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines》《Engineering Microbiology》《中国医药生物技术》等期刊（青年）编委。

1. Wang S#, Liang M#, Chen W#, Wan H, Meng X, Zhu X, Lu Y, Shen Q, Jiang C, Xie N, Chen S∗, Jia M∗, Sun W∗, Completing the biosynthesis of the clinically important diterpenoid andrographolide in Andrographis paniculata. Angew Chem Int Ed. 2025: e202425303（IF = 16.1）

2. Li Y#, Mei Y, Schmidt-Dannert M, Lv Y, Peters R∗, Jia M∗, The pursuit of a hydroxylation switch uncovers a key residue for various product outcomes in the ent-kaurene synthase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Org Lett. 2025, 27, 3942−3946（IF = 4.9）.

3. Sun X#, Zhang H, Jia Y, Li J∗, Jia M∗, CRISPR-Cas9-based genome-editing technologies in engineering bacteria for the production of plant-derived terpenoids. Eng Microbiol. 2024,100154.

4. Mei Y#, Liang M, Li J∗, Jia M∗. Transcriptome-based mining and functional characterization of class II diterpene synthases from Isodon eriocalyx. Chin Med Biotech. 2024, 19(3):206-213.

5. Muchlinski A#, Jia M#, Tiedge K#, Fell J, Pelot K, Chew L, Davisson D, Chen Y, Siegel J, Lovell J, and Zerbe P*. Cytochrome P450-catalyzed biosynthesis of furanoditerpenoids in the bioenergy crop switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.). Plant J. 2021, 108: 1053–68 (IF = 6.417).

6. Jia M#, Zhang Y#, Siegel JB*, Tantillo DJ*, and Peters RJ*. Switching on a nontraditional enzymatic base–deprotonation by serine in the ent-kaurene synthase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum. ACS Catal. 2019, 9:8867-71 (IF = 11.406).

7. Jia M#, Mishra S, Tufts S, Jernigan R, and Peters RJ*. Combinatorial biosynthesis and the basis for substrate promiscuity in class I diterpene synthases. Metab Eng. 2019, 55:44-58 (IF = 7.875).

8. Jia M#, O’Brien TE, Zhang Y, Siegel JB, Tantillo DJ, and Peters RJ*. Changing face: A key residue for the addition of water by sclareol synthase. ACS Catal. 2018, 8:3133-7 (IF = 10.435).

9. Jia M#, Zhou K, Tufts S, Schulte S, and Peters RJ*. A pair of residues that interactively affect diterpene synthase product outcome. ACS Chem. Biol. 2017, 12(3):862-7 (IF = 5.139).

10. Jia M#, Potter KC, and Peters RJ*. Extreme promiscuity of a bacterial and a plant diterpene synthase enables combinatorial biosynthesis. Metab Eng. 2016, 37:24-34 (IF = 7.742).