Professor Li Wenjun has long been focusing on the direction of microbial resources and ecology. He is mainly engaged in systematic classification, resource utilization and ecological research of actinomycetes. His innovative achievements include: (1) Establishing a system for radioactive bacteria in various special habitats. Methods for isolating actinomycetes. Systematic isolation of actinomycete resources in western my country and preservation of more than 50,000 actinomycetes; (2) 4 new orders of bacteria and actinomycetes have been discovered, established and validated, and new subjects have been published. 10, more than 30 new genera, and more than 300 new species, which have significantly improved my country's international status in this field; (3) Extensive cooperation with scientific research institutes and enterprises, sharing of resources, and promoting the release of special habitats Active screening of bacterial resources and research on secondary metabolites, enzymology, etc.; (4) Conducted in-depth research on the origin and molecular evolution of the shikimate pathway in prokaryotic microorganisms, and the ecological adaptability mechanism of microorganisms in extreme environments and made positive progress
Has undertaken research on more than 20 national or provincial projects, including the "973" sub-project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the early stage of 973, the key international cooperation projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation, etc., and is currently the research director of 1 A special international cooperation project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a provincial key project and some horizontal cooperation projects. He has published more than 450 academic papers in domestic and foreign journals (including more than 350 papers in SCI original journals) and 3 monographs. He was invited to write 6 chapters in the new version of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and the new version of Prokaryotic Bacteriology. 2 chapters on Microorganisms (The Prokaryotes) and 19 patent applications. In addition, he has also won the first prize of Yunnan Province Natural Science Award (twice, ranking first and third respectively), the second prize of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education (ranking first), and the third prize of Yunnan Province Natural Science Award (ranking third). ), Yunnan Province Youth Science and Technology Award, Yunnan University Wu Daguan Outstanding Teacher Award, Yunnan Province Ten Outstanding Youth Nomination Award, "Yunnan Province Youth May 4th Medal" Nomination Award, Yunnan Province Outstanding Contribution Professional and Technical Talents and more than 20 awards.