Research Interests

The EMBLab conducts interdisciplinary research in the fields of Environmental Sciences and Biology. Its research interests include:

1) Environmental Microbiome &Synthetic Microbiology;

2) Environmental Resistome & Pathobiome Research;

3) Biochemical Degradation of Emerging Contaminants;

4) Meta-omics & Bioinformatics for Microbiome Analysis.

Environmental Microbiome & Synthetic Microbiology
1.1. Microbiome Assembly and Function in Engineered Systems
1.1.1. Microbiome Assembly in Large Water Diversion Canal
1.2. Microbiome Engineering - To Create mBio with Desired Function
1.2.1. Top-down Design of EBPR Microbiome for P Recovery
Environmental Resistome & Pathobiome Research
Urban WWTPs are Reservoirs and Sources of ARGs and HBPs
2.1. Expression, Selection and Host Traits of ARGs in WWTPs
2.2. Diversity, Fate & Host of Culture-Enriched β-Lactam Resistome
Summary 总结
Biochemical Degradation of Emerging Contaminants
3.1. Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of PVC Plastics
3.2. Transformation and Byproducts of Metformin in Urban Waters
Meta-omics & Bioinformatics for Microbiome Analysis
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)-based Microbiome Analysis
4.1. Marker Gene Analysis - Basic and Advanced Analyses
4.1.1. Microbiome-Wide Nexus & Assembly Mechanism Analysis
4.2. Metagenomics & Bioinformatics of Microbiome Function
4.2.1. Quantitative Meta-omics of Resistome and Microbiome