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Fengping WANG
  • Profile
    Distinguished Professor, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universty
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  • Educational Background

    1992  HuaZhong Normal University, Biology, B.S. 

    1998  HuaZhong Agricultural University, Molecular Biology, Ph.D. 

  • Research Interests

    Deep Biosphere, Microbial Geochemical Cycles

  • Work Experience

    2022-present  Vice Dean,School of Oceanography

    2015-present Distinguished Professor, Shanghai JiaoTong University

    2009-2015      Professor, Shanghai JiaoTong University

    2006 Visiting professor at University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    2003-2009      Senior Researcher, TIO, SOA 

    1999-2002      Post-Doc, Osnabrueck University, Germany

    1998-2003       Assistant Researcher, Third Institute of Oceanography (TIO), State Oceanic Administration (SOA), China

  • Research Project

    Projects in charge in recent 5 years:

    A comparative study on the function, flux and scale of microbial carbon metabolism in typical marine sedimentary environment, NSFC, 2,720,000 CNY, 2023.01 – 2027.12

    Geochemical element cycle mediated by deep-sea benthic organisms and its environmental effects, The Senior User Project of RV KEXUE, 2,000,000 CNY, 2019.02-2021.12

    Acquisition and potential evaluation of hard-to-culture archaeal resources in deep sea, COMRA, 2,600,000 CNY, 2018.06-2020.12

    Archaea-mediated carbon cycle mechanism in marine sediments, NSFC, 3,200,000 CNY, 2018.01-2021.12

    Microbial-mediated iron release in the deep (methanogenic zone) of deep-sea sediments reduction research, NSFC-ISF, 1,800,000 CNY, 2017.01-2019.12


    Attended Cruises:

    August 2006. Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrates. R/V Seaward Johnson II and Johnson Sea-Link Submersible

    November 2009. Guaymas Cruise. R/V Atlantis and Alvin submersible

    September to November 2011. IODP North Pond Expedition. R/V Joides Resolution

    November 2014. East Pacific Rise. R/V Atlantis and Alvin submersible


  • Publications

    Publications:

    More than 90 peer reviewed publications in high-impact international journals including Nat Microbiol, ISME J, PNAS, Environ Microbiol, Appl Environ Microbiol, Geobiology, Sci Rep, Fron Microbiol.


    List of representative publications:

    Xie, R., Wang, Y., Huang, D., Hou, J., Li, L., Hu, H., ... & Wang, F.* (2022). Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Science China Life Sciences, 65(4), 818-829.

    Hou, J., Sievert, S. M., Wang, Y., Seewald, J. S., Natarajan, V. P., Wang, F.*, & Xiao, X.* (2020). Microbial succession during the transition from active to inactive stages of deep-sea hydrothermal vent sulfide chimneys. Microbiome, 8(1), 1-18.

    Zhuang, G. C., Xu, L., Liang, Q., Fan, X., Xia, Z., Joye, S. B., & Wang, F. * (2019). Biogeochemistry, microbial activity, and diversity in surface and subsurface deep‐sea sediments of South China Sea. Limnology and Oceanography, 64(5), 2252-2270.

    Wang, Y., Wegener, G., Hou, J., Wang, F.,* & Xiao, X.* (2019). Expanding anaerobic alkane metabolism in the domain of Archaea. Nature microbiology, 4(4), 595-602.

    Yu, T., Wu, W., Liang, W., Lever, M. A., Hinrichs, K. U., & Wang, F. *  (2018). Growth of sedimentary Bathyarchaeota on lignin as an energy source. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(23), 6022-6027.

    Niu, M., Fan, X., Zhuang, G., Liang, Q., & Wang, F. * (2017). Methane-metabolizing microbial communities in sediments of the Haima cold seep area, northwest slope of the South China Sea. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93(9).

    He, Y., Li, M., Perumal, V., Feng, X., Fang, J., Xie, J., ... & Wang, F. * (2016). Genomic and enzymatic evidence for acetogenesis among multiple lineages of the archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota widespread in marine sediments. Nature microbiology, 1(6), 1-9.

    Wang, F. P.*, Zhang, Y., Chen, Y., He, Y., Qi, J., Hinrichs, K. U., ... & Boon, N. (2014). Methanotrophic archaea possessing diverging methane-oxidizing and electron-transporting pathways. The ISME journal, 8(5), 1069-1078.

    Meng, J., Xu, J., Qin, D., He, Y., Xiao, X., & Wang, F.* (2014). Genetic and functional properties of uncultivated MCG archaea assessed by metagenome and gene expression analyses. The ISME journal, 8(3), 650-659.

    Xie, W., Wang, F. (co-first author), Guo, L., Chen, Z., Sievert, S. M., Meng, J., ... & Xu, A. (2011). Comparative metagenomics of microbial communities inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimneys with contrasting chemistries. The ISME journal, 5(3), 414-426.

    Chen, Y., Wang, F.(co-first author), Xu, J., Mehmood, M. A., & Xiao, X. (2011). Physiological and evolutionary studies of NAP systems in Shewanella piezotolerans WP3. The ISME journal, 5(5), 843-855.

    Wang, S., Xiao, X., Jiang, L., Peng, X., Zhou, H., Meng, J., & Wang, F. * (2009). Diversity and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in hydrothermal vent chimneys of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75(12), 4216-4220.

    Wang, F., Zhou, H., Meng, J., Peng, X., Jiang, L., Sun, P., ... & Xiao, X. (2009). GeoChip-based analysis of metabolic diversity of microbial communities at the Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal vent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(12), 4840-4845.

    Meng, J., Wang, F. (co-first author), Wang, F., Zheng, Y., Peng, X., Zhou, H., & Xiao, X. (2009). An uncultivated crenarchaeota contains functional bacteriochlorophyll a synthase. The ISME journal, 3(1), 106-116.

  • Teaching

    Undergradate Courses: Geobiology; Microbial Oceanography and extremophiles

  • Part-time Academic Job

    Executive Dean of International Center for Deep Life Investigation

     Secretary-General of RDOC-FLUX

    European community for ocean research drilling (ECORD), Facility Board Member 

    ISME Ambassador, International board member  

    Scientific Committee member of IODP-China

    Associate editor for [Frontiers in marine molecular biology and ecology] 

    Editor for  [Applied and Environmental Microbiology], [mLife], [Environment Microbiology]

  • Honors and Awards

    2009   Nominee of Award for Outstanding Young Woman Scientist in China

    2015   Outstanding Young Scientist Award by Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

    2018   Jizhong Zhou Outstanding Scientist Award by Chinese Association of Microbial Ecology 

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