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ZHANG Chuanlun

2018-04-27

Chuanlun Zhang (张传伦)

Chair Professor, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

Professor Dr. Chuanlun Zhang received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1994, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1994 to 1998, taught as an assistant professor in the Department of Geology at University of Missouri from 1998 to 2002 and as an associate and full professor (tenured) at the University of Georgia from 2002 to 2014. He also served as a chair professor at the State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology in Tongji University in China from 2008 to 2012. He was invited to join the Southern University of Science and Technology of China in 2017 to lead a program in Microbial Oceanography and Geomicrobiology and serves as the vice chair of the Department of Ocean Science and Engineering.

Professor Zhang has been dedicating his career to biogeochemical and geomicrobiological research as well as student training for nearly 20 years. His research interests include the role that microorganisms play in the environment and energy transfer, life evolution and global climate change. His research strength lies in integration of lipid biomarkers, stable isotopes and molecular DNA to study microbial (particularly archaeal) activities in carbon and nitrogen cycles. Major research topics include, but are not limited to, geomicrobiology in ocean trenches, deep subsurface, hot springs and other extreme environments; biogeochemistry associated with marine gas hydrates; genomics of marine and terrestrial archaea; and development and application of climate and environmental proxies.

Prof. Zhang has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in international journals of earth and life sciences (eg. “Science”, “PNAS”, “Geology”, “Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta”, “ISME J”,“Environ. Microbiol.” ), in which over 180  were indexed by SCI, with over 8380  citations and an H-index of 55.

Dr. Zhang had served on the editorial board of the Applied and Environmental Microbiology, and is currently the Section Chief Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology-Biology of Archaea and on editorial boards for Archaea and SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences. In June of 2016, he was elected as the Vice Chair (2018) and Chair (2020) of the Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Biogeochemistry.

Website： http://www.tiagor.org/

 

Academic degrees:

            B.S., Geology.   East China Petroleum Institute, People's Republic of China, 1984.

            M.S., Geology.  Texas A&M University, 1989. 

            Ph.D., Geology. Texas A&M University, 1994.

Academic positions:

2017-present  Chair Professor and vice departmental chair, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, South University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

2012-2016      Professor, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

2011-2014      Professor, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia.

2008-2011     Lecturer Professor, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

2002-2011      Associate Professor, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia.

2002-2007     Associate Research Scientist, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Univ. Georgia.

1998-2002     Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri.

1994-1998     Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.

 

Journal Papers

Publications:

Zhang *L., Lin J., Li S., Dong H., Wang F., Xie S. 2018. Tectonomicrobiology: A new paradigm for geobiological research. Science China-Earth Sciences. doi: 10.1007/s11430-017-9159-y.

Chen Y., Zheng F., Chen S., Liu H., Zhang* C.L. Branched GDGT production at elevated temperatures in anaerobic soil microcosm incubations. Organic Geochemistry. 117:12-21.

Xie* W., Luo H., Murugapian S.K., Dodsworth J.A., Chen S., Sun Y., Hedlund B.P., Wang P., Fang H., Deng M., Zhang* C. L. Localized high abundance of Marine group II archaea in the subtropical Pearl River Estuary: implications for their niche adaptation. Environmental microbiology, 20(2), 734-754. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14004.

Zhang *L., Dang H.Y., Azam F., Benner R., Legendre L., Passow U., Polimene L., Robinson C., Suttle C.A.,  Jiao N.Z. 2018. Evolving Paradigms in Biological Carbon Cycling in the Ocean. National Science Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwy074.

Zhang* C.L. 2017. Untangling the role that microbes play in ocean carbon cycle ─ A new paradigm in marine biogeochemistry. Science China-Earth Sciences. 60(2):409-412.

Mou S.l., Zhang* Y.Y, Li G., Li H.M., Liang Y.T., Tang L.L., Tao J.C., Xu J.J., Li J., Zhang C.L., Jiao*  N.Z. 2017. Effects of ocean acidification and nitrogen supply on the growth and photosynthetic physiology of the marine cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp. PCC7002. Journal of Applied Phycology. 29:1755–1763.

Wang* H.Y., Liu W.G., Lu H.X., Zhang C.L. 2017. Potential degradation effect on paleo-moisture proxies based on the relative abundance of archaeal vs. bacterial tetraethers in loess-paleosol sequences on the Chinese Loess Plateau. 436: 173-180.

Shao L., Cui* Y.C., Qiao P.J., Zhang D.J., Liu X.Y., Zhang C.L. 2017.Sea-level changes and carbonate platform evolution of the Xisha Islands  (South China Sea) since the Early Miocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 485:504-516.

Liu H., Zhang* C.L., Yang C., Chen S., Cao Z., Zhang Z. and Tian J. 2017. Marine Group II dominates planktonic archaea 1 in water columns of the northeastern South China Sea: Linkage to water mixing processes. Frontiers in Microbiology. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01098.

Xie* W., Jiao N., Ma C., Fang S., Zhu* R.X, Zhang C.L. 2017. The response of archaeal species to seasonal variables in a subtropical aerated soil: insight into the low abundant methanogens. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. DOI 10.1007/s00253-017-8349-7.

Zhang* Y., Liang P., Xie X., Dai X., Liu H., Zhang C.L., Kao S.J., Jiao N. 2017. Succession of bacterial community structure and potential significance along a sediment core from site U1433 of IODP expedition 349, South China Sea. Marine Geology. DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2017.06.010.

Wang J.X., Xie W., Zhang Y.G., Meador T., Zhang* C.L. 2017. Evaluating production of cyclopentyl tetraethers by Marine Group II Euryarchaeota in the Pearl River estuary and coastal South China Sea: Potential impact on the TEX86 paleothermometer. Frontiers in Microbiol. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02077.

Guo W.T., Xie W., Li X.Y., Wang P., Hu A., Zhang* C.L. 2017. Environmental factors shaping the archaeal community structure and ether lipid distribution in a subtropic river and estuary, China. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. DOI: 10.1007/s00253-017-8595-8.

He M.Q., Cai L.L., Zhang C.L., Jiao* N.Z., Zhang* R. 2017. Phylogenetic Diversity of T4-Type Phages in Sediments from the Subtropical Pearl River Estuary. Frontiers in Microbiol. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00897.

Li* X.X., Zhang Z.R., Wade T.L., Knap A.H., Zhang* C.L. 2017. Sources and compositional distribution of organic carbon in surface sediments from the lower Pearl River to the coastal South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. DOI:10.1002/2017JG003981

Li F.Y., Zheng F.F., Wang Y.L., Liu W.G., Zhang* C.L. 2017. Thermoplasmatales and Methanogens: Potential Association with the Crenarchaeol Production in Chinese soils. Frontiers in Microbiology. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01200.

Wang H., Guo Z., Feng H., Chen Y., Chen X., Li Z., Hernández-Ascencio W., Dai X., Zhang Z., Zheng X., Mora-López M., Fu Y., Zhang C.L., Zhu P., Huang L. 2017. A novel Sulfolobus virus with an exceptional capsid architecture. J. Virol. DOI:10.1128/JVI.01727-17.

Xie* W., Luo H., Murugapian S.K., Dodsworth J.A., Chen S., Sun Y., Hedlund B.P., Wang P., Fang H., Deng M., Zhang* C L. 2017. Localized high abundance of Marine group II archaea in the subtropical Pearl River Estuary: implications for their niche adaptation. Environ. Microbiol. DOI:10.1111/1462-2920.14004.

Research

Academic Projects:

  1. National Key Laboratory of Global Change and Response, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2018YFA0605802, Research on the biological genesis and environmental effects of marine inert organic carbon, 2011.05-2023.04, 2.48 million, under research,the second project leader.
  2. Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation-Key Project, 2018B030311016, Molecular mechanism and ecological significance of marine archaea II degradation of organic matter, 2018.05.01-2021.04.30, 500,000, under research, hosted.
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 41673073, Study on the mechanism of the change of bacteria and archaeal ether compounds in the sediments of the East China Sea, 2017/01-2020/12, 720,000, under research, hosted.
  4. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 41530105, Interactions and sedimentary records of marine autotrophic archaea (MGI) and heterotrophic archaea (MGII) during the South China Sea carbon cycle, 2016/01-2020/12, 3.52 million, under research, hosted.
  5. Ministry of Science and Technology Global Change and Response Key Project, 2016YFA0601101, Ocean Carbon Storage Mechanism and Regional Carbon and Nitrogen Sulfur Cycle Coupling Response to Global Change, 2016/07-2021/06, 830,000, under research, participation.
  6. National Natural Science Foundation project major research and development plan, 91428308, South China Sea carbon cycle and biological carbon storage mechanism integration research, 2015/01-2018/12, 400,000, under research, participation.
  7. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 41373072, Identification of Microbial Sources and Geochemical Processes of Branched Tetraether Membrane Compounds (bGDGT) in Tengchong and Tibetan Hot Springs, 2014.1-2017.12, 700,000, completed, hosted.
  8. Shanghai Science and Technology Commission Scientific Research Project, 13JC1405200, the contribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea to the soil carbon budget and its role in the soil carbon cycle, 2014.1-2017.12, 460,000, completed, hosted.
  9. 973 basic project: research on carbon storage process and mechanism of marine micro-bio-carbon pump, third topic: change law of MCP carbon storage effect on environmental gradient, 2013CB955703, 2013.1-2017.7, 3.05 million, completed, third subject people.
  10. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 91082005, Distribution and biogeochemical function of the archaeal bacteria in the South China Sea, 2011/01-2014/12, 3.5 million, completed, hosted.
  11. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 40972211, Research on lipid markers of hot spring archaea in Tengchong and surrounding areas: environmental factors, biogeography and microbial functional significance, 2010/01-2012/12, 560,000, completed, hosted.

Teaching

Teaching:

Since 1998, he has served as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri in the United States. He began his 20-year teaching career. During the period (1998-2002), he taught courses in geological microbiology and evolution of the earth’s history. From 2002 to 2012, he was an associate professor and professor of marine science at the University of Georgia in the United States. His courses include: Geological Microbiology, Extreme Environmental Life Course, and Introduction to Marine Science. From 2012 to 2016, he returned to China as a professor at the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences of Tongji University. His courses include biogeochemistry, marine science and geological microbiology. From January 2017, he served as the vice chair of the Department of Ocean Science and Engineering,  Chair Professor, the founder of Shenzhen Key Laborary of Marine Archaea Geo-Omics. The courses include: Introduction to Marine Ecosystems, Microbiology and Oceanography.