Dr. ZHANG Li 張莉 |
| Assistant Lecturer |
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| Education: |
- Ph.D. Geomicrobiology, Miami University, 2019
- B.S. Geology, Peking University, 2012
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| Academic Employments: |
- 2023 – present: Assistant Lecturer, Earth and Environmental Sciences Programme, Faculty of Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2019 – 2022: Research Affiliate (Bioinformatician), Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
- 2012 – 2014: Teaching Assistant, Miami University
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| Research Fields and Current Research Interests: |
- Impact of environmental factors such as salinity on microbial communities
- Mineral-microbe-metal(iron) interactions
- Microbial remediation of nitrate
- Nitrogen biogeochemical cycling
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| Honours and Awards: |
- 2018: Student Oral Presentation Award (top six), 55th Annual International Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society
- 2015: Ph.D. Dissertation Scholarship for the outstanding doctoral student, Miami University
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| Selected Recent Publications: |
- Zhao, L., Shao, H., Zhang, L., Panno, S.V., Kelly, W.R., Lin, T.Y., Liu, W.T., Flynn, T.M. and Berger, P. (2022). Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA. Environmental Microbiology, 24(12), 6112-6127. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16241
- Dong H., Huang L., Zhao L., Zeng Q., Liu X., Sheng Y., Shi L., Wu G., Jiang H., Li F., Zhang L., Guo D., Li G., Hou W. and Chen H. (2022). A critical review of mineral–microbe interaction and co-evolution: mechanisms and applications. National science review, 9(10), nwac128. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwac128
- Zhang L., Dong H., Kukkadapu R. K., Jin Q. and Kovarik L. (2019) Electron transfer between sorbed Fe(II) and structural Fe(III) in smectites and its effect on nitrate-dependent iron oxidation by Pseudogulbenkiania sp. strain 2002. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 265, 132–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.08.042
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