YANG Yuchun

Basic information 

Associate Professor / Doctoral supervisor
Direction: Sustainability and Restoration
Research Area: Microbial Ecology and Pollution Ecology
Email: yangych55@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Address: Room 1207, Building 2, Shenzhen Medical Park, Sun Yat-sen University,
Links: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FRQktU4AAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

General Information

Male
Associate Professor
Doctoral supervisor
PhD
We are seeking to recruit postdoctoral fellows, master and doctoral students with backgrounds in microbiology, environmental science, earth science, bioinformatics, or related disciplines. Interested applicants are welcome to contact us via email.

Research Interests

Direction 1: Focus on microorganisms in natural water bodies and forest soils, utilizing bioinformatics and biogeochemical techniques to investigate the mechanisms and ecological effects of microbe-driven elemental cycling under global change.
 

Direction 2: Address the issue of water eutrophication caused by excessive reactive nitrogen emissions from human activities, using microbial culturomics approaches to develop nitrogen removal microbial resources and explore their applications in ecological restoration.

Education Experience

2015.11-2019.12, The University of Hong Kong, Environmental Microbiology, PhD
2018.2-2019.5, University of Vienna, Microbial Ecology, PhD exchange
2011.9-2014.1, Jiangnan University, Bioengineering, Master
2007.9-2011.7, Qingdao Agricultural University, Bioengineering, Bachelor

Working Experience

2020.6 to now, Sun Yat-sen University, “Hundred Talents Program” Associate Professor
2019.11-2020.3, The University of Hong Kong, Research Assistant

Selected Publications (first or corresponding author only)

Pengfei Hu, Youfen Qian, Jinye Liu, Lin Gao, Yuxin Li, Yanbin Xu, Jiapeng Wu, Yiguo Hong, Tim Ford, Adi Radian, Yuchun Yang*, Ji-Dong Gu*. Delineation of the complex microbial nitrogen-transformation network in an anammox-driven full-scale wastewater treatment plant[J]. Water Research, 2023, 235. (IF=12.8)

Yuchun Yang#, Zhongyi Lu#, Mohammad Azari, Boran Kartal, Huan Du, Mingwei Cai, Craig W. Herbold, Xinghua Ding, Martin Denecke, Xiaoyan Li, Meng Li, Ji-Dong Gu*. Discovery of a new genus of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria with a mechanism for oxygen tolerance[J]. Water Research, 2022, 226. (IF=12.8)

Zhiman Lin, Kayan Ma, Yuchun Yang*. Nitrous Oxide Emission from Full-Scale Anammox-Driven Wastewater Treatment Systems[J]. Life, 2022, 12

Yuchun Yang, Mohammad Azari, Craig W. Herbold, Meng Li, Huaihai Chen, Xinghua Ding, Martin Denecke, Ji-Dong Gu*. Activities and metabolic versatility of distinct anammox bacteria in a full-scale wastewater treatment system [J]. Water Research, 2021, 206. (IF=12.8)

Yuchun Yang, Craig W Herbold, Man-Young Jung, Wei Qin, Mingwei Cai, Huan Du, Jih-Gaw Lin, Xiaoyan Li, Meng Li*, Ji-Dong Gu*. Survival strategies of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in a full-scale WWTP treating mixed landfill leachate containing copper ions and operating at low-intensity of aeration [J]. Water Research, 2021, 191. (IF=12.8)

Huaihai Chen,* Kayan Ma, Yu Huang, Yuchun Yang,* Zilong Ma, and Chengjin Chu. Salinity Drives Functional and Taxonomic Diversities in Global Water Metagenomes [J]. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021,12: 719725. (IF=5.640)

Yuchun Yang, Holger Daims, Yang Liu, Craig W Herbold, Petra Pjevac, Jih-Gaw Lin, Meng Li*, Ji-Dong Gu*. Activity and metabolic versatility of complete ammonia oxidizers in full-scale wastewater treatment systems [J]. mBio, 2020, 11: e03175-19. (IF=7.867)

Yuchun Yang, Jie Pan, Zhichao Zhou, Jiapeng Wu, Yang Liu, Jih-Gaw Lin, Yiguo Hong, Xiaoyan Li, Meng Li*, Ji-Dong Gu*. Complex microbial nitrogen-cycling networks in three distinct anammox-inoculated wastewater treatment systems [J]. Water Research, 2020, 168: 115-142. (IF= IF=12.8)

Yuchun Yang, Meng Li*, Zhong Hu, Hojea Shim, Jih-Gaw Lin, Xiao-Yan Li, Ji-Dong Gu*. Deep insights into the green nitrogen removal by anammox in four full-scale WWTPs treating landfill leachate based on 16S rRNA gene and transcripts by 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing [J]. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020. (IF=11.07)

Yuchun Yang, Meng Li*, Hui Li, Xiao-Yan Li, Jih-Gaw Lin, Martin Denecke, Ji-Dong Gu*. Specific and effective detection of anammox bacteria using PCR primers targeting the 16S rRNA gene and functional genes [J]. Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 734: 139387. (IF=10.76)

Yuchun Yang, Meng Li*, Xiao-Yan Li, Ji-Dong Gu*. Two identical copies of the hydrazine synthase gene clusters found in the genomes of anammox bacteria [J]. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2018, 132: 236-240. (IF=4.320)

Yuchun Yang, Zhengbing Guan, Yanrui Ding, Xiangru Liao, Yujie Cai*. Fermentation optimization, and cloning and sequence analysis of the laccase gene from Shiraia sp. SUPER-H168 [J]. Annals of Microbiology, 2015, 65: 575-583.

Yuchun Yang, Yanrui Ding, Xiangru Liao, Yujie Cai*. Purification and characterization of a new laccase from Shiraia sp. SUPER-H168 [J]. Process Biochemistry, 2013, 48: 351-357.