Areas of Focus
- Microbiome, Earth, Climate
- Microbes evolution in extreme environments
- Microbial community dynamics
Work Experience
- 2020 - Present: Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher in Geological/Marine Microbiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2020 - Present: Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher in Geological/Marine Microbiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2016: PhD in Geobiology, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2015: Visiting Scholar at Kennedy Space Center's Space Life Sciences Lab, USA
- 2010: Bachelor of Biological Sciences, Northwest University
Publications
- Expanding anaerobic alkane metabolism in the domain of Archaea, Yinzhao Wang, Gunter Wegener, Jialin Hou, Fengping Wang*, Xiang Xiao*, 2019
- Diverse anaerobic methane- and multi-carbon alkane-metabolizing archaea coexist and show activity in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediment, Yinzhao Wang, Xiaoyuan Feng, Vengadesh Perumal Natarajan, Xiang Xiao*, Fengping Wang*, 2019
- Genomic evidence of the illumination response mechanism and evolutionary history of magnetotactic bacteria within the Rhodospirillaceae family, Yinzhao Wang*, Giorgio Casaburi, Wei Lin, Ying Li, Fengping Wang, Yongxin Pan, 2019