1980年9月出生于山东省文登市，2004年和2007年在天津理工大学分别获学士和硕士学位，2011年3月在日本茨城大学获博士学位。2011年4月至2014年1月在日本茨城大学进行博士后研究，2014年2月至2018年12月在日本冈山大学任助理教授，2018年12月到中国科学院植物研究所工作，已发表SCI论文30余篇。

主要研究工作：

主要研究方向是光合生物参与光合作用及其代谢调控相关的一系列膜蛋白复合物的结构与功能。利用生物物理、生物化学和分子生物学等手段，在分子原子水平上阐明生物大分子之间错综复杂的相互作用网络，来进一步加深对光合作用的理解。近年来，在紫色光合细菌的核心捕光天线及反应中心复合体（LH1-RC）的结构与功能中取得重大突破。

发表论文

2019

Wang W*,Yu LJ*, Xu C, Tomizaki T, Zhao S, Umena Y,Chen X, Qin X, Xin Y, Suga M, Han G, Kuang T,Shen JR. 2019. Structural basis for blue-green light-harvesting and energy dissipation in diatoms.Science, in press.

2018

Yu LJ, Suga M, Wang-Otomo ZY, Shen J R. 2018. Structure of photosynthetic LH1-RC supercomplex at 1.9 A resolution. Nature,556 (7700), 209-213.

Yu LJ, Suga M, Wang-Otomo ZY, Shen JR. 2018. Novel features of LH1-RC from Thermochromatiumtepidum revealed from its atomic resolution structure. FEBSLett., 285, 4359-4366.

Chen JH*, Yu LJ*, Boussac A, Wang-Otomo ZY, Kuang T, Shen JR. 2018. Properties and structure of a low-potential, penta-heme cytochrome c552 from a thermophilic purple sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res.(DOI 10.1007/s11120-018-0507-y, *equal contribution)

Kimura Y, Kawakami T, Arikawa T, Li Y, Yu LJ, Ohno T, Madigan MT, Wang-Otomo ZY. 2018. C-terminal cleavage of the LH1 alpha-polypeptide in the Sr2+-cultured Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynth. Res., 135, 23-31.

2017

Yu J, Fu LM, Yu LJ, Shi Y, Wang P, Wang-Otomo ZY, Zhang JP.2017. Carotenoid singlet fission reactions in bacterial light harvesting complexes as revealed by triplet excitation profiles. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139 (44), 15984-15993.

Suga M, Akita F, Sugahara M, Kubo M, Nakajima Y, Nakane T, Yamashita K, Umena Y, Nakabayashi M, Yamane T, Nakano T, Suzuki M, Masuda T, Inoue S, Kimura T, Nomura T, Yonekura S, Yu LJ, Sakamoto T, Motomura T, Chen JH, Kato Y, Noguchi T, Tono K, Joti Y, Kameshima T, Hatsui T, Nango E, Tanaka R, Naitow H, Matsuura Y, Yamashita A, Yamamoto M, Nureki O, Yabashi M, Ishikawa T, Iwata S, Shen JR.2017. Light-induced structural changes and the site of O=O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL. Nature, 543 (7643), 131-135.

Nagashima KVP, Sasaki M, Hashimoto K, Takaichi S, Nagashima S, Yu LJ, Abe Y, Gotou K, Kawakami T, Takenouchi M, Shibuya Y, Yamaguchi A, Ohno T, Shen JR, Inoue K, Madigan MT, Kimura Y, Wang-Otomo ZY.2017. Probing structure–function relationships in early events in photosynthesis using a chimeric photocomplex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 114 (41), 10906-10911.

Ma F, Yu LJ, Llansola-Portoles MJ, Robert B, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R.2017. Metal cations induced alphabeta-bchl a heterogeneity in lh1 as revealed by temperature-dependent fluorescence splitting. Chemphyschem, 18 (16), 2295-2301.

Ma F, Yu LJ, Hendrikx R, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R. 2017. Excitonic and vibrational coherence in the excitation relaxation process of two lh1 complexes as revealed by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8 (12), 2751-2756.

Ma F, Yu LJ, Hendrikx R, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R. 2017. Direct observation of energy detrapping in lh1-rc complex by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139 (2), 591-594.

2016

Yu LJ, Kawakami T, Kimura Y, Wang-Otomo ZY.2016. Structural basis for the unusual qy red-shift and enhanced thermostability of the lh1 complex from Thermochromatium tepidum. Biochemistry,55 (47), 6495-6504.

Ma F, Yu L J, Ma XH, Wang P, Wang-Otomo ZY, Zhang JP.2016. Bacterial light-harvesting complexes showing giant second-order nonlinear optical response as revealed by hyper-rayleigh light scattering. J. Phys. Chem. B, 120 (35), 9395-401.

Kimura Y, Yura Y, Hayashi Y, Li Y, Onoda M, Yu LJ, Wang-Otomo ZY, Ohno T.2016. Spectroscopic and thermodynamic characterization of the metal-binding sites in the lh1-rc complex from thermophilic photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. J. Phys. Chem. B, 120 (49), 12466-12473.

Huo YL, Shi Y, Wang Q Y, Li L, Yu LJ, Wang P, Zhang JP, Wang ZY. 2016. Spectroscopic properties of LH2 from Thermochromatium tepidum in liposome and detergent micelles. Chem. J. Chin. Univ., 37 (9), 1678-1685.

Ma F, Yu LJ, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R. 2016. Temperature dependent LH1-->RC energy transfer in purple bacteria Tch. tepidum with shiftable LH1-Q band: A natural system to investigate thermally activated energy transfer in photosynthesis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta., 1857 (4), 408-414.

2015

Shi Y, Zhao NJ, Wang P, Fu LM, Yu LJ, Zhang J P, Wang-Otomo ZY.2015. Thermal adaptability of the light-harvesting complex 2 from Thermochromatium tepidum: Temperature-dependent excitation transfer dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. B,119 (47), 14871-14879.

Ma F, Yu LJ, Wang-Otomo ZY, van Grondelle R. 2015. The origin of the unusual Qy red shift in LH1-RC complexes from purple bacteria Thermochromatium tepidum as revealed by Stark absorption spectroscopy. Biochim. Biophys. Acta.,1847 (12), 1479-1486.

Kimura Y, Kawakami T, Yu LJ, Yoshimura M, Kobayashi M, Wang-Otomo ZY. 2015. Characterization of the quinones in purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. FEBS Lett., 589 (15), 1761-5.

2014

Niwa S*, Yu LJ*, Takeda K, Hirano Y, Kawakami T, Wang-Otomo ZY, Miki K.2014. Structure of the LH1-RC complex from Thermochromatiumtepidum at 3.0 ？. Nature, 508 (7495), 228-32. (*equal contribution)

2013

Yu LJ, Unno M, Kimura Y, Yanagimoto K, Oh-oka H, Wang-Otomo ZY.2013. Structure analysis and characterization of the cytochrome c-554 from thermophilic green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum. Photosynth. Res., 118 (3), 249-258.

Kimura Y, Inada Y, Yu L J, Ohno T, Wang Z. 2013. Strontium ions are functionally replaceable with calcium ions in the light-harvesting 1 reaction center core complex from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatiumtepidum. In Photosynthesis Research for Food, Fuel and the Future. (eds. Kuang, T. Y. et al.). 105-109 (Springer).

2012

Sekine F, Horiguchi K, Kashino Y, Shimizu Y, Yu LJ, Kobayashi M, Wang ZY. 2012. Gene sequencing and characterization of the light-harvesting complex 2 from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatiumtepidum. Photosynth. Res., 111 (1-2), 9-18.

2011

Yang F, Yu LJ, Wang P, Ai XC, Wang ZY, Zhang JP. 2011. Effects of Aggregation on the excitation dynamics of LH2 from Thermochromatiumtepidum in aqueous phase and in chromatophores. J. Phys. Chem. B, 115 (24), 7906-7913.

Kimura Y, Inada Y, Yu LJ, Wang ZY, Ohno T.2011. A Spectroscopic variant of the light-harvesting 1 core complex from the thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatiumtepidum. Biochemistry, 50 (18), 3638-3648.

2010及以前

Yu LJ, Kato S, Wang ZY.2010. Examination of the putative Ca2+-binding site in the light-harvesting complex 1 of thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatiumtepidum. Photosynth. Res., 106 (3), 215-220.

Yang F, Yu LJ, Wang P, Ai XC, Wang ZY, Zhang JP. 2010. Excitation Dynamics of the Light-Harvesting complex 2 from Thermochromatiumtepidum. Acta. Phys-Chim. Sin., 26 (7), 2021-2030.

Ma F, Kimura Y, Yu LJ, Wang P, Ai XC, Wang ZY, Zhang JP. 2009. Specific Ca2+-binding motif in the LH1 complex from photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatiumtepidum as revealed by optical spectroscopy and structural modeling. FEBS J., 276 (6), 1739-1749.

Kimura Y, Yu LJ, Hirano Y, Suzuki H, Wang ZY.2009. Calcium Ions are required for the enhanced thermal stability of the light-harvesting-reaction center core complex from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatiumtepidum. J. Biol. Chem., 284 (1), 93-99.

Kimura Y, Hirano Y, Yu LJ, Suzuki H, Kobayashi M, Wang ZY. 2008. Calcium ions are involved in the unusual red shift of the light-harvesting 1 Qy transition of the core complex in thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatiumtepidum. J. Biol. Chem.,283 (20), 13867-13873.