Ph.D. in Microbial Ecology
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences · advised by Prof. Ye Deng
CV & Experience
Profile
Microbial ecologist and bioinformatics researcher completing a Ph.D. at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I study microbial interactions through ecological networks, metagenomics, metabolic models, and quorum-sensing inference.
Education
International Scholar
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven · co-supervised by Dr. Karoline Faust
B.Sc. in Biological Sciences
China Agricultural University
Research Experience
Quorum-sensing interaction networks
KU Leuven and Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
Classified quorum-sensing functions from metagenome-assembled genomes using a KEGG-based reference of 41 pathways and 18 signal molecule types, then developed a sender–receiver model for directional microbial communication networks.
Metabolic complementarity and co-occurrence
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Integrated genome-scale metabolic complementarity with random-matrix-theory co-occurrence networks to study microbial interactions across a hot-spring temperature gradient. The work led to first-author papers in Nature Communications and iMeta.
Metagenomic workflow and platform development
Integrated Network Analysis Pipeline and Galaxy platform
Contributed to iNAP and developed practical experience in quality control, assembly, mapping, and genome binning for shotgun and Nanopore metagenomic data.
Bohai Sea interdomain ecological networks
Changxing Island monitoring area, Bohai Sea
Combined amplicon analysis, interdomain ecological networks, centrality measures, and beta-diversity analysis to compare microbial communities and inferred interactions in sediment and seawater.
Methods & Tools
Microbial interaction modelling
Interdomain and co-occurrence networks, metabolic complementarity, quorum-sensing sender–receiver inference
Metagenomics
Amplicon and shotgun sequencing, Nanopore data, quality control, assembly, mapping, and genome binning
Research infrastructure
Galaxy, iNAP, DMAP, Linux, Shell/Bash, Python, and R
Laboratory methods
DNA extraction, PCR, gel electrophoresis, aseptic technique, and microbial culturing
Honors & Awards
President Scholarship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Grand Award
China National Scholarship for Doctoral Students
Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
First Prize Scholarship
Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology
Research Output
Author or co-author of 19 peer-reviewed publications, including four first-author papers and work published in Nature Communications, iMeta, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Water Research, Microbiome, and The ISME Journal.