All PIs

1.    Ru-Yi Zhang, Yan‑Ren Wang, Ru‑Long Liu, Sung‑Keun Rhee, Guo‑Ping Zhao and Zhe‑Xue Quan* . Metagenomic characterization of a novelnon-ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota from hadal . Microbiome, 2024, DOI:10.1186/s40168-023-01728-2.

2.    Ran Jiang, Wen-Jing Qin, Ru-Yi Zhang, Kai Zhang, Xing Huang, Yong Li, Chen-Hao Zhou, Ting Zhu, Yan Zhang, Bin Zou, Ming Nie, Sung-Keun Rhee, Zhe-Xue Quan*. Salinity changes the nitrification activity and community composition of comammox Nitrospira in intertidal sediments of Yangtze River estuary. mSystems, 2023, e01026-22.

3.    Ran Jiang, Wen-Jing Qin, Ru-Yi Zhang, Kai Zhang, Xing Huang, Yong Li, Chen-Hao Zhou, Ting Zhu, Yan Zhang, Bin Zou, Ming Nie, Sung-Keun Rhee, Zhe-Xue Quan*. Salinity changes the nitrification activity and community composition of comammox Nitrospira in intertidal sediments of Yangtze River estuary. mSystems, 2023, e01026-22.
4.    Bin Zou, Ying Huang, Pan-Pan Zhang, Xiao-Ming Ding, Huub J.M. Op den Camp, Zhe-Xue Quan* Horizontal gene transfer of genes encoding copper-containing membrane-bound monooxygenase (CuMMO) and soluble di-iron monooxygenase (SDIMO) in ethane- and propane-oxidizing Rhodococcus bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2021, 87(14): e00227-21.
5.    Ran Jiang, Jian-Gong Wang, Ting Zhu, Bin Zou, Dan-Qi Wang, Sung-Keun Rhee, Dong An, Zhi-Yuan Ji and Zhe-Xue Quan*. Use of newly designed primers for quantification of complete ammonia-oxidizing (comammox) bacterial clades and strict nitrite oxidizers in the genus Nitrospira. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2020, 86:e01775-20.
6.    Ting Zhu, Xing Liu, Fan-Qi Kong, Yuan-Yuan Duan, Alyson L. Yee, Madeline Kim, Carlos Galzote, Jack A. Gilbert, and Zhe-Xue Quan*. Age and mothers: potent influences of children’s skin microbiota, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2019, 139: 2497-2505.
7.    Fei Xia, Jian-Gong Wang, Ting Zhu, Bin Zou, Sung-Keun Rhee, Zhe-Xue Quan*. 2018. Ubiquity and diversity of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2018, 84:e01390-18.
8.    Zhe-Xue Quan, Wan-Taeck Im. Fimbriimonadia. In Book: Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2020 Sept. DOI: DOI:/10.1002/9781118960608.cbm00073.

1.    Enrichment of novel nitrifiers and evaluate its ecological contribution
2.    Combination of metagenomics and culturomics for human microbiome
3.    Development of methods for microbial population analysis

1.    Ru-Yi Zhang, Yan‑Ren Wang, Ru‑Long Liu, Sung‑Keun Rhee, Guo‑Ping Zhao and Zhe‑Xue Quan*  Metagenomic characterization of a novelnon-ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota from hadal. Microbiome, 2024, DOI:10.1186/s40168-023-01728-2.

2.    Ran Jiang, Wen-Jing Qin, Ru-Yi Zhang, Kai Zhang, Xing Huang, Yong Li, Chen-Hao Zhou, Ting Zhu, Yan Zhang, Bin Zou, Ming Nie, Sung-Keun Rhee, Zhe-Xue Quan* Salinity changes the nitrification activity and community composition of comammox Nitrospira in intertidal sediments of Yangtze River estuary. mSystems, 2023, e01026-22.
3.    Bin Zou, Ying Huang, Pan-Pan Zhang, Xiao-Ming Ding, Huub J.M. Op den Camp, Zhe-Xue Quan* Horizontal gene transfer of genes encoding copper-containing membrane-bound monooxygenase (CuMMO) and soluble di-iron monooxygenase (SDIMO) in ethane- and propane-oxidizing Rhodococcus bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2021, 87(14): e00227-21.
4.    Ran Jiang, Jian-Gong Wang, Ting Zhu, Bin Zou, Dan-Qi Wang, Sung-Keun Rhee, Dong An, Zhi-Yuan Ji and Zhe-Xue Quan*. Use of newly designed primers for quantification of complete ammonia-oxidizing (comammox) bacterial clades and strict nitrite oxidizers in the genus Nitrospira. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2020, 86:e01775-20.
5.    Ting Zhu, Xing Liu, Fan-Qi Kong, Yuan-Yuan Duan, Alyson L. Yee, Madeline Kim, Carlos Galzote, Jack A. Gilbert, and Zhe-Xue Quan*. Age and mothers: potent influences of children’s skin microbiota, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2019, 139: 2497-2505.
6.    Fei Xia, Jian-Gong Wang, Ting Zhu, Bin Zou, Sung-Keun Rhee, Zhe-Xue Quan*. 2018. Ubiquity and diversity of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2018, 84:e01390-18.
7.    Zhe-Xue Quan, Wan-Taeck Im. Fimbriimonadia. In Book: Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2020 Sept. DOI: DOI:/10.1002/9781118960608.cbm00073.