Areas of Focus
- Physiological and biochemical characteristics of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox) and their role in ecosystems
- Exploration of deep-sea microbial resources
- Human skin microbiome research
- Development of new methods to pursue 'overlooked' microorganisms
Work Experience
- 2005-2011 - Fudan University - Lecturer and Associate Professor
- 2011-Present - Fudan University - Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- Bachelor's Degree: Peking University, Chemistry
- Doctorate: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Biological Sciences
- Editorial Board Member: PLoS ONE, Journal of Microbiology
- Review Editor: Frontiers in Microbiology
- Committee Member: Teaching Work Committee of the Chinese Society for Microbiology
- Academic Secretary: Major Research Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Publications
- Abundance and niche specificity of different types of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox) in salt marshes covered by different plants, Dan-Qi Wang, Cheng-Hao Zhou, Ming Nie, Ji-Dong Gu, Zhe-Xue Quan, 2021
- Use of newly designed primers for quantification of complete ammonia-oxidizing (comammox) bacterial clades and strict nitrite oxidizers in the genus Nitrospira, Ran Jiang, Jian-Gong Wang, Ting Zhu, Bin Zou, Dan-Qi Wang, Sung-Keun Rhee, Dong An, Zhi-Yuan Ji, Zhe-Xue Quan, 2020
- Ubiquity and diversity of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox), Xia F, Wang J-G, Zhu T, Zou B, Rhee S-K, Quan Z-X, 2018
- An improved protocol with a highly degenerate primer targeting copper-containing membrane-bound monooxygenase genes for community analysis of methane- and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, Jian-Gong Wang, Fei Xia, Jemaneh Zeleke, Bin Zou, Sung-Keun Rhee, Zhe-Xue Quan, 2018
- 追寻全程硝化菌之路:基因序列驱动的新功能微生物的发现, 全哲学, 2018
- Diversity of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in a granular sludge anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) reactor, Zhe-Xue Quan, Sung-Keun Rhee, Jian-E Zuo, Yang Yang, Jin-Woo Bae, Ja Ryeong Park, Sung-Taik Lee, Yong-Ha Park, 2008
- Dynamics of skin mycobiome in infants, Ting Zhu, Yuan-Yuan Duan, Fan-Qi Kong, Carlos Galzote, Zhe-Xue Quan, 2020
- Age and mothers: potent influences of children’s skin microbiota, Ting Zhu, Xing Liu, Fan-Qi Kong, Yuan-Yuan Duan, Alyson L. Yee, Madeline Kim, Carlos Galzote, Jack A. Gilbert, Zhe-Xue Quan, 2019
- The influence of age and gender on skin-associated microbial communities in urban and rural human populations, Shi Ying, Dan-Ning Zeng, Liang Chi, Yuan Tan, Carlos Galzote, Cesar Cardona, Simon Lax, Jack Gilbert, Zhe-Xue Quan, 2015
- Fimbriimonadia, Zhe-Xue Quan, Wan-Taeck Im, 2020
- Description of Fimbriimonas ginsengisoli gen. nov., sp. nov. within the Fimbriimonadia class nov., of the phylum Armatimonadetes, W-T Im, Z-Y Hu, K-H Kim, S-K Rhee, H Meng, S-T Lee, Z-X Quan, 2012
- Design of targeted primers based on 16S rRNA sequences in meta-transcriptomic datasets and identification of a novel taxonomic group in the Asgard archaea, Ru-Yi Zhang, Bin Zou, Yong-Wei Yan, Che Ok Jeon, Meng Li, Mingwei Cai, Zhe-Xue Quan, 2020
- Modified RNA-seq method for microbial community and diversity analysis using rRNA in different types of environmental samples, Yong-Wei Yan, Bin Zou, Ting Zhu, Wael N. Hozzein, Zhe-Xue Quan, 2017
- Analysis of microbial diversity by pyrosequencing the small-subunit ribosomal RNA without PCR amplification, X-R Li, Y Lv, H Meng, J-D Gu, Z-X Quan, 2014
- Coverage evaluation of universal bacterial primers using the metagenomic datasets, D-P Mao, Q Zhou, C-Y Chen, Z-X Quan, 2012