Location:
Xuxiang Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Environment
Nanjing University
Tel：+86-25-8968-0368
Email: [email protected]
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Education
Sept. 2001 - June 2006: School of Environment, Nanjing University (China), PhD
Sept. 1997 - Jul. 2001: Department of Biology, (), BSc
Professional Experience
Jul. 2020 – present: Full Professor, Vice Dean, School of Environment, Nanjing University; Associate Director, State Key Lab of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse Research, China
Jan. 2013 – present: Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University
Dec. 2009 – Dec. 2012: Associate Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University
May 2010 – Aug. 2011: Postdoc Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Jul. 2006 – Dec. 2009: Assistant Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University
Research Interests
Environmental microbiology
Wastewater biological treatment technologies
Environmental health risk assessment and control
Teaching
Environmental Biotechnology (for undergraduate students)
Experimental Manipulation for Environmental Biotechnology (for undergraduate students)
Environmental Bio-omics (for doctoral students)
Selected Publications
He X., Qi Z., Gao J., Huang K., Li M., Springael D., Zhang X.X.* (2020) Nonylphenol ethoxylates biodegradation increases estrogenicity of textile wastewater in biological treatment systems. Water Research 184: 116137.
Wang D., Zheng Q., Huang K., Springael D., Zhang X.X.* (2020) Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic insights into the complex nitrogen metabolic pathways in a single-stage bioreactor coupling partial denitrification with anammox. Chemical Engineering Journal 398: 125653.
Ye L.*, Mei R., Liu W.T., Ren H., Zhang X.X.* (2020) Machine learning-aided analyses of thousands of draft genomes reveal specific features of activated sludge processes. Microbiome, 8:16.
He X., Qi Z., Hou H., Gao J., Zhang X.X.* (2020) Effects of chronic cadmium exposure at food limitation-relevant levels on energy metabolism in mice. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 388:121791.
He X., Qi Z., Hou H., Qian L., Gao J., Zhang X.X.* (2020) Structural and functional alterations of gut microbiome in mice induced by chronic cadmium exposure. Chemosphere, 246 (2020) 125747.
He X., Gao J., Hou H., Qi Z., Chen H., Zhang X.X.* (2019) Inhibition of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation contributes to development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease induced by environmental cadmium exposure. Environmental Science & Technology, 53, 13992-14000.
Jia S., Wu J., Ye L., Zhao F., Li T., Zhang X.X.* (2019) Metagenomic assembly provides a deep insight into the antibiotic resistome alteration induced by drinking water chlorination and its correlations with bacterial host changes. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 379:120841.
Wang D., Li T., Huang K., He X., Zhang X.X.* (2019) Roles and correlations of functional bacteria and genes in the start-up of simultaneous anammox and denitrification system for enhanced nitrogen removal. Science of the Total Environment, 655: 1355-1363.
Wang D., He Y., Zhang X.X.* (2019) A comprehensive insight into the functional bacteria and genes and their roles in simultaneous denitrification and anammox system at varying substrate loadings. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 103:1523-1533.
Zhao F., Ju F., Huang K., Mao Y., Zhang X.X.*, Ren H., Zhang T.* (2019) Comprehensive insights into the key components of bacterial assemblages in pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plants. Science of the Total Environment 651: 2148-2157.
Selected Awards
Dec. 2016, 1st Winner, Natural Science Award (II) of China.
Dec. 2015, 1st Winner, Natural Science Award (I) of Ministry of Education, P. R. China.
