The research team has 17 personnel,including 1 PI, 1 assistant researcher, 2 postdocs, 1 research assistant and 12 graduate students.
Fan Jiang (Email: jiangfan01@caas.cn) : Dr. Fan Jiang, research associate, is honored as “Shenzhen High-level Talent”. He has been engaged in studies of metagenomics for a long time, and the major achievements include: has completed the metagenomic researches on the chicken gut and full-scale biogas plants, and generated the first comprehensive chicken gut microbial gene catalog, constructed more than 200 circular metagenomic-assembled genomes using PacBio HiFi long reads, and provided a microbial gene catalog of anaerobic digestion. In addition, he also conducted researches on plant genomics, and finished the genomic studies for water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) and Ipomoea cairica. He has published 10 papers in SCI journals as (co-) first author, including Microbiome, GigaScience, Scientia Horticulturae, BMC Bioinformatics, and Frontiers in Microbiology.
Wei Zhang (zhangwei@caas.cn) : Wei Zhang, obtained a doctoral degree from Hunan Agricultural University in December 2021, has been dedicated to studying the effects of rhizosphere microbial-plant interactions on plant health in recent years. Since joining Prof. Cheng Xu's Lab at AGIS as a postdoctoral researcher in 2022, she has focused on transforming the existing concept of biological control, using multiple biocontrol strains to prevent multiple infections of potato caused by pathogens. She is well on her way to constructing some synthetic microbial community for the control of various soil-borne diseases in potatoes.
Bo Zhang( zhangbo06@caas.cn): Bo Zhang graduated from Yunnan Normal University with a Ph.D. degree in 2022. Her research Focuses on the dual-purpose staple crop potato, using a natural variation population of diploid potatoes to decipher the genetic mechanisms underlying the important nutritional quality metabolism and microbial community of potatoes. The aim is to construct an interaction network between potato genotypes, marker microbes, and metabolic secretions, in order to facilitate the breeding of potato crops by leveraging the metabolic and microbial communities.
Ph.D. students: Yuxiao Zeng; Lihong Yan; Fancheng Zeng; Weizheng Peng
MSc.students: Changsheng Yang; Tingting Xu; Hehui Su; Jiahui Fan ; Ziyun Fan; Zhihong Xue; Tao Yang; Rugang Yang;
Suai Luo