Meiying Xu, PhD, Professor, PhD advisor

 Dr. Xu is currently the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, deputy director and member of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Microbiology of Guangdong Academy of Sciences. 

She is also serving as the vice chairman of the Guangdong Genetic Association, member of the National Science and Technology Leaders Alliance Council, member of the National Technical Committee on Bio-specimen of Standardization Administration of China, member of the Subcommittee 1 on Chemicals Toxicity Inspection of National Technical Committee 251 on Dangerous Chemicals Management of Standardization Administration of China, member of the Subcommittee of the Environmental Microbiology of the Chinese Society for Microbiology, Expert of the Advisory Committee of the Environmental Protection Department of Guangdong Province. 

Dr. Xu has been committed to environmental microbiology research for a long time with many innovative scientific outcomes in the theory and technology of bioremediation. She undertaken more than 40 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects such as the "973", "863" programs, and funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She established the research framework for studying the response of microbial ecological network, and discovered a variety of novel metabolic pathways and electron-transfer mechanisms of the electroactive microorganisms. Dr. Xu’s lab employs synthetic biology techniques to construct a number of high-efficiency degradation functional microbiomes and invented a number of microbial enhanced degradation technologies for toxic organic pollutants.

Yet, Dr. Xu has about 200 publications (130 on SCI indexed journals), listed as the first or corresponding author on more than 90, including journals such as Nat Commun, ISME J, Environ Sci Technol. She is also the patent holder of 56 national inventions of China and 1 US patent, with another 34 pending patents. As the main technical person in charge, she has completed a number of microbial wastewater treatment projects, and won the first prize (2018) and second prize (2014) of the Guangdong Science and Technology Award (The first contributor).

Representative publications (selected from 230 papers) 

(* Corresponding author)

Liu F. F., Wang Z. Y., Wu B., Bjerg J. T., Hu W. Z., Guo X., Guo J., Nielsen L. P., Qiu R. L.*, Xu M. Y.*, Cable bacteria extend the effects of elevated dissolved oxygen into anoxic sediments, The ISME Journal, DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-00869-8

Xu M. Y.*, Zhang Q., Xia C., Zhong Y., Sun G., Guo J., Yuan T., Zhou J., He Z.*, Elevated nitrate enriches microbial functional genes for potential bioremediation of complexly contaminated sediments, The ISME Journal, 2014, 8:1932-44.

Xu M. Y., Wu W-M, Wu L., He Z., van Nostrand J. D., Deng Y., Luo J., Carley J., Ginder-Vogel M., Gentry T., Gu B., Watson D., Jardine P. M., Marsh T. L., Tiedje J. M., Hazen T., Criddle C. S., Zhou J.*，Responses of microbial community functional structures to pilot-scale uranium in situ bioremediation, The ISME Journal, 2010, 4: 1060-1070.

He Z. L. #, Xu M. Y.#, Deng Y., Kang S., Kellogg L., Wu L. Y., Van Nostrand J., Hobbie S. E., Reich P. B., Zhou J. Z. *, Metagenomic analysis reveals a marked divergence in the functional structure of belowground microbial communities at elevated CO2, Ecology Letters. 2010, 13: 564-575. (# Contributed equally)

Luo Y. S. #, Liu F. #, Li E. Z., Fang Y., Zhao G., Dai X., Li J. J., Wang B., Xu M. Y.*, Liao B.*, and Sun G. P., FRET-based fluorescent nanoprobe platform for sorting of active microorganisms by functional properties, Biosensor and Bioelectronics, 2020, 148:111832. (# Contributed equally)

Xu M. Y. *, He Z., Zhang Q., Liu J., Guo J., Sun G. P., Zhou J., Responses of aromatic-degrading microbial communities to elevated nitrate in sediments, Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49: 12422?12431.

Yang Y. G., Xiang Y. B., Sun G. P., Wu W-M, Xu M. Y.*, Electron acceptor-dependent respiratory and physiological stratifications in biofilms. Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49:196-202.

Liu F., Xu M. Y.*, Chen X. J., Yang Y. G., Wang H. J., Sun G. P., Novel strategy for tracking the microbial degradation of azo dyes with different polarity in living cells, Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49: 11356–11362.

Wang B. #, Zhang H. #, Yang Y. G.*, Xu M. Y.*, Diffusion and filamentous bacteria jointly govern the spatiotemporal process of sulfide removal in sediment microbial fuel cells, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021: 126680. (# Contributed equally)

Qian Y. F., Xu M. Y.*, Deng T. C., Hu W. Z., He Z. L., Yang X. N., Wang B., Song D., Chen L. T., Huang Y. D., Sun G. P., Synergistic interactions of Desulfovibrio and Petrimonas for sulfate-reduction coupling polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 124385.

Yang X. N., Li E. Z., Liu F. F., Xu M. Y.*, Interactions of PAH-degradation and nitrate-/sulfate-reducing assemblages in anaerobic sediment microbial community, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 388: 122068.

Hu W. Z., Pan J., Wang B., Guo J., Li M.*, Xu M. Y.*, Metagenomic insights into the metabolism and evolution of a new Thermoplasmata order (Candidatus Gimiplasmatales), Environmenal Microbiology, doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15349

Yang Y. G., Lu Z. J., Lin X. K., Xia C. Y., Sun G. P., Xu M. Y.*, Enhancing the bioremediation by harvesting electricity from the heavily contaminated sediments, Bioresource Technology, 2015, 179: 615-618.

Yang Y. G.#, Xiang Y. B.#, Xia C. Y., Wu W-M, Sun G. P., Xu M. Y.*, Physiological and electrochemical effects of different electron acceptors on bacterial anode respiration in bioelectrochemical systems, Bioresource Technology, 2014, 164: 270-275. (# Contributed equally)

Fang Y#., Liu J. #, Kong G. N. #, Liu X. D., Yang Y. G., Li E. Z., Chen X. J., Song D., You X. J., Sun G. P., Guo J., Xu M. Y.*, Adaptive responses of Shewanella decolorationis to toxic organic extracellular electron acceptor azo dyes in anaerobic respiration, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2019, 85(16): e00550-19. (# Contributed equally)

Liu F., Du J., Song D., Xu M. Y.* and Guoping Sun，A sensitive fluorescent sensor for the detection of endogenous hydroxyl radicals in living cells and bacteria and direct imaging with respect to its ecotoxicity in living zebra fish, Chemical Communications, 2016, 52: 4636. 

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