Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Assistant Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Flinkstrom, Z., Hunt, K. A., Abrahamson, B., Harvell, P., Li, X., Wilson, J., Cooper, Z. S., Valenzuela, J. J., Baliga, N. S., Stahl, D. A., Qin, W., & Winkler, M. K. H. (2026). Comparative physiological and genomic characterization of a novel Nitrobacter vulgaris strain from a nitrate-contaminated subsurface. Applied and environmental microbiology, 92(4). https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00130-26
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), Article e2531032123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2531032123
Wang, B., Gao, P., Zhang, P., Zheng, Y., Liu, X., Ling, N., Shan, J., Yao, R., Zhao, S., Zhang, Z., Zhu, G., Jung, M. Y., Zou, J., Yan, X., Lee, S., Hazard, C., Nicol, G. W., Zhou, J., Yang, Y., ... Qin, W. (2026). Elevated temperature simulating heatwaves restructures active nitrifying communities and associated viruses in tidal flats and agricultural soils. ISME Journal, 20(1), Article wrag037. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrag037
Zhang, L., Qin, W., Ishii, S., Stahl, D. A., & Winkler, M. K. H. (2026). Oxygen dependent nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide (N2O) dynamics during aerobic ammonia oxidation. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 248, Article 107628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2026.107628
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