Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Assistant Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Qin, W., Tagliabue, A., Hou, L., Xu, M., Bian, X., Moran, D. M., Zhao, D., Li, Q., McIlvin, M. R., Zheng, Y., Kao, S.-J., Zhang, Y., Saito, M. A., John, S. G., Fu, F.-X., & Hutchins, D. A. (2026). Ocean warming enhances iron use efficiencies of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(10). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2531032123

Gou, X., Ji, Y., Zhang, P., Liu, Z., Qiu, J., Song, X., Qin, W., Jiang, J., Liu, X., & Wang, B. (2025). Virus-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes fuel the metabolism of organic pollutants in long-term contaminated groundwater. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 498, Article 139940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.139940

Ji, Y., Liu, X., Zhao, S., Zhou, S., Yang, Y., Zhang, P., Shi, Y., Qin, W., Zhu, G., Zhu, Y., Gao, Y., Jiang, J., & Wang, B. (2025). Unveiling Global Diversity of Patescibacteriota and Functional Interactions with Host Microbes. Advanced Science, 13(11), Article e09416. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202509416

Myllykallio, H., Qin, W., & Berg, I. A. (2025). Editorial: The metabolic pathways of archaea. Frontiers in Microbiology, 16, Article 1648560. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1648560

Su, Y., Guo, X., Gao, Y., Feng, J., Wu, L., Lei, J., Liu, S., Gao, Q., Zeng, Y., Qin, W., Shi, Z., Liang, Z., Ye, Z., Yuan, M., Ning, D., Wu, L., Zhou, J., & Yang, Y. (2025). Warming stimulates cellulose decomposition by recruiting phylogenetically diverse but functionally similar microorganisms. ISME Communications, 5(1), Article ycae152. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae152

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