Education

1989, B.Sc., School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University，China;

1994, M.Sc., School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University，China;

2002, Ph.D., Environmental Science Research Center, Xiamen University.

Professional Experience

2004-2005, Post Doc., Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Korea;

2005-2012, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University；

2012- present, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

Research Area

Environmental Microbiology, Microbial physiology, Microbial ecology.
My laboratory seeks to understand the ecology, physiology, and genetics/genomics underlying important microbial processes in nature. This theme unifies our research in several project areas, all of which have basic research components; several have considerable public interest and some have an applied component. In earlier years our research focused on microbial processes and the environmental factors controlling those processes; but as molecular methods improved, we began to use these methods to understand the populations, communities and eventually the genes responsible for those processes; and now we are using microbial targeted-culturomic, genomic, transcriptomic, metabolomic and bioinformation approaches to identify and predict the physiological functions of microbial population, community-driven carbon and nitrogen cycle and degradation of typical organic pollutants at species, gene expression network and community metabolic function level, and apply them to practices such as improving human health, controlling water eutrophication, greenhouse gas emission reduction, and bioremediation of polluted environments.

Selected Publications

1. Li Yixin^#, Wang Yuezhou^#, Lin Xiaolan^#, Sun Shuqian, Wu Anan, Ge Yintong, Yuan Menghui, Wang Jianhua, Deng Xianming^*, Tian Yun^* Algicidal bacteria-derived membrane vesicles as shuttles mediating cross-kingdom interactions between bacteria and algae. Science Advances 2024, 10(32):eadn4526
2. Lin Xiaolan, Qiao Baoyi, Chang Ruirui, Li Yixin, Zheng Wei, He Zhili and Tian Yun^* Characterization of two keystone taxa, sulfur-oxidizing, and nitrate-reducing bacteria, by tracking their role transitions in the benzo[a]pyrene degradative microbiome. Microbiome 2023, 11:139
3. Lin Xiaolan^#, Ma Jiaxin^#, Zhou Zanhu, Qiao Baoyi, Li Yixin, Zheng Wei, Tian Yun^* Oil-contaminated sites act as high-risk pathogen reservoirs previously overlooked in coastal zones. Water Research 2023, 242:120225
4. Li Yuqian, Liang Jiaqing, Yang Shuyue, Yao Jiebing, Chen Kai, Yang Luxi, Zheng Wei, Tian Yun^* Finding novel chemoreceptors that specifically sense and trigger chemotaxis toward polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Novosphingobium pentaromativorans US6-1. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2021, 416: 126246
5. Dai Yujie^#, Lin Xiaolan^#, Luo Yi, Sun Jing, Tian Yun^* Molecular analysis of microbial nitrogen transformation and removal potential in mangrove wetlands under anthropogenic nitrogen input. Science of the Total Environment 2021, 773: 145632
6. Liang Jiaqing^#, Xu Jiantao^#, Zhao Weijun, Wang Jiaofeng, Chen Kai, Li Yuqian, Tian Yun^* Benzo[a]pyrene might be transported by a TonB-dependent transporter in Novosphingobium pentaromativorans US6-1. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2021, 404:124037
7. Liao Hu, Lin Xiaolan, Li Yuqian, Qu Mingming, Tian Yun^* Reclassification of the Taxonomic Framework of Orders Cellvibrionales, Oceanospirillales, Pseudomonadales and Alteromonadales in Class Gammaproteobacteria through Phylogenomic Tree Analysis. mSystems 2020, (5) 5 e00543-20
8. Zhang Manping, Dai Peiliang, Lin Xiaolan, Lin Li’an, Zhang Yangmei, Tian Yun^* Nitrogen loss by anaerobic ammonium oxidation in a mangrove wetland of the Zhangjiang Estuary, China. Science of the Total Environment 2020, 698: 134291
9. Lei Xieqian, Zheng Wei, Ding Hongyan, Zhu Xiaoying, Chen Qiuliang, Xu Hong, Zheng Tianling, Tian Yun^*. Effective harvesting of the marine microalga Thalassiosira pseudonana by Marinobacter sp. FL06. Bioresource Technology 2018, 269: 127-133
10.Zhang Manping, Luo Yi, Lin Li’an, Lin Xiaolan, Hetharua Buce, Zhao Weijun, Zhou Mengkai, Zhan Qing, Xu Hong, Zheng Tianling, Tian Yun^* Molecular and stable isotopic evidence for the occurrence of nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane-oxidizing bacteria in the mangrove sediment of Zhangjiang Estuary, China. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2018，102: 2441-2454