Research Project
1) National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Fund (42306057), Exploring the mechanisms of how physical and biological perturbations impact the iron-bound organic carbon in coastal sediment, 2024-2026, PI
2) Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, general program (23ZR1428500), Regulations of hydrological and biological forces on microbial community ecology and metabolism: a case study on coastal wetlands of the Yangtze River Estuary, 2023-2026, PI
3) Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, Pujiang Program A (22PJ1404800), Global distribution of marine benthic invertebrates and their contributions to carbon cycles, 2022-2024, PI
Publications
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13) Deng L.*, Fiskal A., Bölsterli D. et al. (2023). Differential impact of two major polychaete guilds on microbial communities in marine sediments: a microcosm study. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10:1119331.
12) Niu M.#, Deng L.#, Su, L. et al. (2022). Methane supply drives prokaryotic community assembly and networks at cold seeps of the South China Sea. Molecular Ecology, 00, 1–20.
11) Deng L.*, Meile C., Fiskal A. et al. (2022). Deposit-feeding worms control subsurface ecosystem functioning in intertidal sediment with strong physical forcing. PNAS Nexus, 1(4), pgac146.
10) Deng L.*, Bölsterli D., Kristensen E. et al. (2020). Macrofaunal control of microbial community structure in continental margin sediment. PNAS, 117(27), 15911-15922.
9) Deng L.*, Fiskal A., Han X., et al. (2019). Improving the accuracy of flow cytometric quantification of microbial populations in sediments: importance of cell staining procedures. Frontiers in microbiology, 10, 720.
8) Fiskal A.*, Deng L., Michel A. et al. (2020). Effects of eutrophication on sedimentary organic carbon cycling in five temperate lakes. Biogeosciences, 16 (19), 3725-3746.
7) Han X.*, Tolu J., Deng L. et al. (2022). Long-term preservation of biomolecules in lake sediments: potential importance of physical shielding by recalcitrant cell walls. PNAS Nexus, 1(3): pgac0766.
6) Lagostina L., Frandsen S., MacGregor B., Albert D., Deng L. et al. (2021). Interactions between temperature and energy supply drive microbial communities in hydrothermal sediment. Communications biology 4 (1), 1-14.
5) Fiskal A.*, Anthamatten E., Deng L. et al. (2021). Carbon sources of benthic fauna in temperate lakes across multiple trophic states; Biogeosciences, 18 (14), 4369-4388.
4) Zhu R.*, Tolu J., Deng L. et al. (2020). Improving the extraction efficiency of sedimentary carbohydrates by sequential hydrolysis. Organic Geochemistry 141:103963.
3) Møller M.H., Glombitza C., Lever M.A., Deng L. et al. (2018). D:L-amino acid modeling reveals fast microbial turnover of days to months in the subsurface hydrothermal sediment of Guaymas Basin. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 967.
2) Geilert S.*, Hensen C., Schmidt M. et al. (2018). On the formation of hydrothermal vents and cold seeps in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California. Biogeosciences, 15(18), 5715-5731.
1) Berndt C.*, Hensen C., Mortera-Gutierrez C. et al. (2016). Rifting under steam - how rift magmatism triggers methane venting from sedimentary basins. Geology, 44:767-770.
