KAN Jinjun
Stroud Water Research Center; Associate Research Scientist
- Principal Investigator, Microbiology Group
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
B.S., 1994, Environment Sciences, Ocean University of China
M.Sc., 1997, Marine Ecology, First Institute of Oceanography, SOA
Ph.D., 2006, Marine, Estuarine and Environmental Sciences, University of Maryland
Postdoc, 2006-2010, Environmental Microbiology, University of Southern California
APPOINTMENTS
2017-Present: Associate Research Scientist. Stroud Water Research Center, PA, USA
2010-2017: Assistant Research Scientist. Stroud Water Research Center, PA, USA
2012-Present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, DE, USA
2012-Present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
2001-2006: Research Assistant, Marine and Estuary Environmental Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA
1999-2001: Research Assistant, Department of Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
1994-1999: Research Assistant, First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, China
Website: https://stroudcenter.org/people/kan/
Journal Papers
Closely Related Products
1 Mosher, J. J., E. L. Bernberg, O. Shevchenko, J. Kan, and L. A. Kaplan. 2013. Efficacy of a 3rd generation high-throughput sequencing platform for analyses of 16S rRNA genes from environmental samples. J Microbiol. Methods. 95: 175-181.
2 Kan, J., S. Clingenpeel, R. E. Macur, W. P. Inskeep, D. Lavalvo, J. Varley, Y. Gory, T. R. McDermott and K. H. Nealson. 2011. Archaea in Yellowstone Lake. ISME J. 5:1784-1795.
3 Clingenpeel, S., R. E. Macur, J. Kan, W. P. Inskeep, D. Lavalvo, J. Varley, E. Mathur, K. Nealson, Y. Gory, T. L. Fracois, and T. R. McDermott. 2011. Yellowstone Lake: High energy geochemistry and rich bacterial diversity. Environ. Microbiol. 13:2172-2185.
4 Kan, J., M. Suzuki, K. Wang, S.E. Evans, and F. Chen. 2007. High temporal but low spatialheterogeneity of bacterioplankton in the Chesapeake Bay. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73:6776-6789.
5 Kan, J., B. C. Crump, K. Wang, and F. Chen. 2006. Bacterioplankton community in Chesapeake Bay: Predictable or random assemblages. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51:2157-2169.
Other Significant Products
1 Kan, J., S. Clingenpeel, C. Dow, T. McDermott, R. Macur, W. P. Inskeep, and K. Nealson. 2016. Geochemistry and mixing drive the spatial distribution of free-living Archaea and Bacteria in Yellowstone Lake. Front. Microbiol. 7:210
2 Williamson, K. E., J. Kan, S. W. Polson, and S. J. Williamson. 2011. Optimizing the indirect extraction of prokaryotic DNA from soils. Soil Biol. Biochem. 43:736-748.
3 Kan, J., Y. Wang, A. Obraztsova, G. Rosen, J. Leather, K. Scheckel, K. H. Nealson, and Y. M. Arias-Thode. 2011. Bacterial community response to inorganic and organic amendments in marine sediments. Ecotoxicol Environ. Saf. 74:1931-1941.
4 Kan, J., L. Hsu, A. C. M. Cheung, M. Pirbazari, and K. H. Nealson. 2011. Current production by bacterial communities in microbial fuel cells enriched from wastewater sludge with different electron donors. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45:1139-1146.
5 Kan, J., S. E. Evans, F. Chen and M. T. Suzuki. 2008. Novel estuarine bacterioplankton in rRNA operon libraries from the Chesapeake Bay. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 51:55-66.
Research
Interests and Expertise
Environmental microbiology and molecular microbial ecology of aquatic ecosystems, particularly freshwater and estuaries, with focus on algal, bacterial, archaeal, and viral population dynamics, and interactions with local environments, including trophic interactions, nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry.