Our lab member Jiong Wang has successfully completed and defended her master’s thesis on November 19, 2021 entitled: “The impact of copper oxide nanoparticles on bacterial community assembly”.
Congratulations and we wish you all the best as you embark on a new chapter in your life!
Xian Yang recently published her work on the effects of forest fragment size on leaf litter decomposition and the mechanisms underlying the litter decomposition-island area relationship in CATENA and her collaborative work with our visiting scholar Dr. Weixing Liu entitled “Long-term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland” in Global Change Biology.
Find her work at:
Yang, X., Y. Wang, Q. Xu, W. Liu, L. Liu, Y. Wu, L. Jiang, and J. Lu. 2021. Soil fertility underlies the positive relationship between island area and litter decomposition in a fragmented subtropical forest landscape. CATENA 204:105414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105414
Liu, W., Liu, L., Yang, X., Deng, M., Wang, Z., Wang, P., Yang, S., Li, P., Peng, Z., Yang, L. and Jiang, L. 2021. Long-term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland. Glob Change Biol. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15681
Qianna Xu also published her meta-analysis on the relationship between species diversity and temporal stability in Ecology Letters:
Xu, Q., X. Yang, Y. Yan, S. Wang, M. Loreau, and L. Jiang. 2021. Consistently positive effect of species diversity on ecosystem, but not population, temporal stability. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13777
Congratulations everyone!
On October 31, 2019, our lab member Xian Yang defended her dissertation and earned her doctoral degree.
Congrats Dr. Yang!
Every year Georgia Tech hosts the Earth Day Festival on campus to celebrate our planet Earth. Our lab members were excited to participate again this year to share our knowledge on the biodiversity and the ecological importance of freshwater protozoans with the general public. Crowds were attracted by our interactive booth with microscopes, agar plates on which bacteria isolated from Piedmont Park ponds are growing, and microcosms containing various protist species. Thank you to everybody who came by and helped today!
To read more about Georgia Tech Earth Day Festival, go to http://www.earthday.gatech.edu/
Our lab member Dr. Shaopeng Li will soon start a faculty position as a professor at East China Normal University, a prestigious university in China. His research focuses on questions about biodiversity and biological invasion, specifically how species invasion and extinction influence the biodiversity maintenance and community restoration. Dr. Li is now seeking new graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to join his research group. Detailed information is available at the Li Lab website https://lilab-ecnu.weebly.com
All of our lab members would like to bid him farewell and wish him all the best at his new job!
