Areas of Focus
- Deep-sea microbiology
- Simulation of extreme deep-sea environments
- Adaptation mechanisms of extreme deep-sea microbial environments
- Microbial oceanography
Work Experience
- 2001-2008 Researcher: Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources
- 2009-present Distinguished Professor: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1990 Bachelor: Huazhong Agricultural University
- 1998 PhD: Huazhong Agricultural University
- 1999-2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow: University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Publications
- Cultivation and metabolic insights of an uncultured clade, Bacteroidetes VC2.1 Bac22 (Candidatus Sulfidibacteriales ord. nov.), from deep‐sea hydrothermal vents, Hao Leng, Weishu Zhao, and Xiang Xiao, 2022
- A methylotrophic origin of methanogenesis and early divergence of anaerobic multi-carbon alkane metabolism, Yinzhao Wang, Gunter Wegener, Tom A. Williams, Ruize Xie, Jialin Hou, Chen Tian, Yu Zhang, Fengping Wang, Xiang Xiao, 2021
- The upper temperature limit of life under high hydrostatic pressure in the deep biosphere, Yi Yang, Weishu Zhao, Xiang Xiao, 2021
- Hydrostatic pressure is the universal key driver of microbial evolution in the deep ocean and beyond, Xiang Xiao, Yu Zhang, Fengping Wang, 2021
- The origin and impeded dissemination of the DNA phosphorothioation system in prokaryotes, Huahua Jian, Guanpeng Xu, Yi Yi, Yali Hao, Yinzhao Wang, Lei Xiong, Siyuan Wang, Shun-zhang Liu, Canxing Meng, Jiahua Wang, Yue Zhang, Chao Chen, Xiaoyuan Feng, Haiwei Luo, Hao Zhang, Xingguo Zhang, Lianrong Wang, Zhijun Wang, Zixin Deng, Xiang Xiao, 2021
- Unexpectedly high mutation rate of a deep-sea hyperthermophilic anaerobic archaeon, Jiahao Gu, Xiaojun Wang, Xiaopan Ma, Ying Sun, Xiang Xiao, Haiwei Luo, 2021
- Diversity and distribution of viruses inhabiting the deepest ocean on Earth, Huahua Jian, Yi Yi, Jiahua Wang, Yali Hao, Mujie Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Canxing Meng, Yue Zhang, Hongmei Jing, Yinzhao Wang, Xiang Xiao, 2021
- Genomic and enzymatic evidence of acetogenesis by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea, Shanshan Yang, Yongxin Lv, Xipeng Liu, Yinzhao Wang, Qilian Fan, Zhifeng Yang, Nico Boon, Fengping Wang, Xiang Xiao, Yu Zhang, 2020
- Expanding anaerobic alkane metabolism in the domain of Archaea, Yinzhao Wang, Gunter Wegener, Jialin Hou, Fengping Wang, Xiang Xiao, 2019
- Methanotrophic archaea possessing diverging methane-oxidizing and electron-transporting pathways, Fengping Wang, Yu Zhang, Ying Chen, Ying He, Ji Qi, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Xinxu Zhang, Xiang Xiao, Nico Boon, 2014
Awards
- 1998: First DAAD Special Award for Biological Sciences
- 2007: Representative of China at the UN informal consultations on the conservation of deep-sea biological genetic resources in New York
- 2007: National Candidate for the New Century Talents Project
- 2008: Xiamen Labor Model
- 2008: Chief Scientist of the first biological leg of China's deep-sea expedition
