Dr. Fan is the principle investigator of the Microbial Informatics Lab (MIL) in the Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology. His xk星空官网 interests include microbial ecology and evolution, microbial symbiosis, microbiome and virus interaction, computational biology, etc. As the first or corresponding author, he published papers in world-class journals including Nature Ecology & Evolution, PNAS, ISME J, and EST. He was awarded the Young Scientist Prize of the European Society of Microbiology (FEMS), and the ‘Year Best xk星空官网’ Prize in marine environmental science in New South Wales, Australia.

Educational Qualifications

2008 – 2012, University of New South Wales, Microbiology and Immunology, PhD

2006 – 2008, Zhejiang University, Biophysics, MSci

2002 – 2006, Zhejiang University, Applied Bioscience, BSci

Working experiences

2021 – Present, Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science & Technology

2017 – 2021, xk星空官网 Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science & Technology

2015 – 2017, Senior Product Manager, iCarbonX Shenzhen

2014 – 2015, Senior xk星空官网 Fellow, BGI-xk星空官网 Shenzhen

2012 – 2014, Postdoctoral xk星空官网 Fellow, University of Queensland

Awards:

1、The Tony Roach Prize in Marine Environmental Science (State Best xk星空官网 of the Year). Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Sydney, Australia.   Jul 2014

2、FEMS Congress Grants for Young Scientists. xk星空官网 4th Congress of European Microbiologists, Geneva, Switzerland.   Jun 2011

Grants:

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Deciphering xk星空官网 mechanism of Marine Group II Archaea (Ca. Poseidoniales) in estuarine carbon and nitrogen cycling regulated by magroviruses", 2020-2022

2. Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, "Application of Shenzhen Bay Indigenous Microorganism in Antipollution", 2019-2021

Publications

24 journal publications (11 as first author and/or corresponding author), citation 1000+, h-index 13.

Featured publications (*Corresponding Author):

1. Fan L*, Wu D, Vadim G, …, Martin WF*, Zhu RX*. (2020). Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 1213-1219.

2. Fan L, Reynolds D, Liu M, Stark M, Webster NS, Kjelleberg S, Thomas T*. (2012). Functional equivalence and evolutionary convergence in complex communities of microbial sponge symbionts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:E1878-E1887.

3. Fan L, Liu M, Simister R, Webster NS, Thomas T*. (2013). Marine microbial symbiosis heats up: xk星空官网 phylogenetic and functional response of a sponge holobiont to thermal stress. ISME J 7:991-1002.

4. Gao SH, Fan L*, Peng L, Guo J, …, Bond P*. (2016). Determining multiple responses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 to an antimicrobial agent, free nitrous acid. Environ Sci Technol 50:5305-5312.

5. Liu M, Fan L (joint-1^{xk星空官网} author), Zhong L, Kjelleberg S, Thomas T*. (2012). Metaproteogenomic analysis of a community of sponge symbionts. ISME J 6:1515-1525.