Bing Li

08/2013-07/2017: Ph.D.in Chemical and Material Engineering, The University of Auckland,New Zealand

09/2007―08/2011: Ph.D, Environmental Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

09/2004―07/2007: MPhil. Municipal Engineering, Hunan University, China

09/2000―07/2004: BEng. Water and Wastewater Engineering, Hunan University, China

2017.09 - 2020.08, Research fellow at Tsinghua University and The University of Auckland 

2015.04―Present: 

Associate Professor: Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China

2011.12―2015.03: 

Postdoctoral Fellow: Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2012.05―2013.01: 

Visiting Scholar: Stanford University, USA

2011.09―2011.11: 

Research Assistant (Part time), Senior Research Assistant: Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Editorial Board Member:

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, SCI journal

Early Career Advisory Board Member:

Journal of Hazardous Materials, SCI journal

Committee Member:

Microbial Ecology Committee in Ecological Society of China；

Ecological Toxicology and Environmental Toxicology Committee in Guangdong Provincial Environmental Science Society

Membership:

International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME)

American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

International Water Association (IWA)

Marine biogeochemistry;

Spectral analysis of marine organic matter and its application;

Frontiers in marine environmental pollution control and management;

Principles and Applications of Surface Engineering Technology. 

(1) Fates and control of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in drinking water/sewage treatment plants as well as natural environments;

(2) Biodegradation pathway and mechanisms of emerging pollutants (antibiotics, PPCPs, and EDCs) revealed using metabolic approach (QToF-MS/MS) and metagenomic & metatranscriptomic approaches;

(3) Application of high-throughput sequencing for characterization of microbial community and gene expression related to drinking water/reclaimed water/sewage treatment process and soil/sediment bioremediation;

(4) Transformation and fate of emerging pollutants in different disinfection processes, including chlorination, UV and ozonation using the high accuracy QToF-MS/MS technology combined with the quantum chemistry calculation approach.

(1) Fates and control of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in drinking water/sewage treatment plants as well as natural environments;

(2) Biodegradation pathway and mechanisms of emerging pollutants (antibiotics, PPCPs, and EDCs) revealed using metabolic approach (QToF-MS/MS) and metagenomic & metatranscriptomic approaches;

(3) Application of high-throughput sequencing for characterization of microbial community and gene expression related to drinking water/reclaimed water/sewage treatment process and soil/sediment bioremediation;

(4) Transformation and fate of emerging pollutants in different disinfection processes, including chlorination, UV and ozonation using the high accuracy QToF-MS/MS technology combined with the quantum chemistry calculation approach.

(1) Deciphering the key environmental mutagenic factors actuating antibiotic resistance generation and the related molecular mechanism, 2019.01-2022.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI

(2) Application of functional metagenomics, epicPCR and nanopore sequencing technologies to identify novel resistance genes and interpret the transmission of resistance genes between microorganisms, 2019.10-2023.09, Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province, PI.

(3) The study on the distribution and transmission of bacterial antibiotic resistance genes in Shenzhen Bay basin. 2017.07-2020.12, Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Innovation Council of Shenzhen Government, PI

(4) The study of pollution characteristics and ecological risk assessment of antibiotic and antibiotic resistance genes in landfill leachate, 2018.04-2020.11, Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Innovation Council of Shenzhen Government, PI

(5) The study of microbiome and resistome under antibiotic stress in aquaculture environment revealed by multi-omics approaches, 2018.01-2020.06, State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, PI

Dr. Li has published 76 peer-reviewed papers, including 6 ESI Highly Cited Paper on the top journals of ISME J, Microbiome, Environmental Science & Technology and Water Research etc. with >4900 citations and H index of 35. He has presented 6 invited/keynote speech in international and regional conference/symposium during the past three years. Since the beginning of his independent academic career in 2015, he has applied for 14 research grants (10 PI+4 Co-PI) including 2 NSFC grants successfully as the PI. The total approved funding amount is about 12.89 million CNY.

[1] Jiayu Zhang, Wenhui Gan, Renxin Zhao, Ke Yu, Huaxin Lei, Ruiyang Li, Xiaoyan Li, Bing Li*, 2020. Chloramphenicol biodegradation by enriched bacterial consortia and isolated strain Sphingomonas sp. CL5.1: The reconstruction of a novel biodegradation pathway. Water Research, 116397

[2] Renxin Zhao, Ke Yu, Jiayu Zhang, Guijuan Zhang, Jin Huang, Liping Ma, Chunfang Deng, Xiaoyan Li, Bing Li*，2020. Deciphering the mobility and bacterial hosts of antibiotic resistance genes under antibiotic selection pressure by metagenomic assembly and binning approaches. Water Research,186: 116318

[3] Renxin Zhao, Jie Feng, Jie Liu, Wenjie Fu, Xiaoyan Li, Bing Li*, 2019. Deciphering of microbial community and antibiotic resistance genes in activated sludge reactors under high selective pressure of different antibiotics. Water Research, 151, 388–402.

[4] Lijia Cao, Jiayu Zhang, Renxin Zhao, Yu Deng, Jie Liu, Wenjie Fu, Yusha Lei, Tong Zhang, Xiaoyan Li, Bing Li*, 2019. Genomic characterization, kinetics, and pathways of sulfamethazine biodegradation by Paenarthrobacter sp. A01. Environment International, 131, 104961.

[5] Jie Liu, Bing Li*, Yingying Wang, Guijuan Zhang, Xiaotao Jiang, Xiaoyan Li*, 2019. Passage and community changes of filterable bacteria during microfiltration of a surface water supply. Environment International, 131, 104998.

[6] Jiayu Zhang, Renxin Zhao, Lijia Cao, Yusha Lei, Jie Liu, Jie Feng, Wenjie Fu, Xiaoyan Li, Bing Li*, 2019. High-efficiency biodegradation of chloramphenicol by enriched bacterial consortia: Kinetics study and bacterial community characterization. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 384,121344.

[7] Guijuan Zhang, Bing Li*, Feng Guo, Jie Liu, Mingqiang Luan, Yang Liu, Yuntao Guan*, 2019. Taxonomic relatedness and environmental pressure synergistically drive the primary succession of biofilm microbial communities in reclaimed wastewater distribution systems. Environment International, 124, 25-37

[8] Guijuan Zhang, Bing Li*, Jie Liu, Mingqiang Luan, Long Yue, Xiao-Tao Jiang, Ke Yu, Yuntao Guan*, 2018.The bacterial community significantly promotes cast iron corrosion in reclaimed wastewater distribution systems. Microbiome, 6 (1), 222.

[9] Bing Li, Wei-Min Wu*, David B. Watson, Erick Cardenas, Yuanqing Chao, D. H. Phillips, Tonia Mehlhorn, Kenneth Lowe, Shelly D. Kelly, Pengsong Li, Huchun Tao, James M. Tiedje, Craig S. Criddle, Tong Zhang*, 2018. Bacterial Community Shift and Coexisting/Coexcluding Patterns Revealed by Network Analysis in A Bioreduced Uranium Contaminated Site after Reoxidation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. DOI:10.1128/AEM.02749-17

[10] Renxin Zhao; Jie Feng; Xiaole Yin; Jie Liu; Wenjie Fu; Thomas U.Berendonk; Tong Zhang; Xiaoyan Li; Bing Li* , Antibiotic resistome in landfill leachate from different cities of China deciphered by metagenomic analysis, Water Research, 2018, 134: 126~139

[11] Jie Feng; Bing Li*; Xiaotao Jiang; Ying Yang; George F. Wells; Tong Zhang; Xiaoyan Li, Antibiotic resistome in a large-scale healthy human gut microbiota deciphered by metagenomic and network analyses, Environmental Microbiology, 2018, 20(1): 355~368

[12] Wenjie Fu; Bing Li*; Jinqin Yang; Haibo Yi; Liyuan Chai; Xiaoyan Li, New insights into the chlorination of sulfonamide: Smiles-type rearrangement, desulfation, and product toxicity, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017, 331, 785-793

[13] Liping Ma^#, Bing Li^#, Xiaotao Jiang, Yulin Wang, Yu Xia, Aandong Li, Tong Zhang*, 2017. Catalogue of Antibiotic Resistome and Host-tracking in Drinking Water Deciphered by a Large Scale Survey. Microbiome, 5 (154), DOI 10.1186/s40168-017-0369-0 (^#co-first author)

[14] Li, Bing; Yang, Ying; Ma, Liping; Ju, Feng; Guo, Feng; Tiedje, James M.; Zhang, Tong*, Metagenomic and network analysis reveal wide distribution and co-occurrence of environmental antibiotic resistance genes, The ISME Journal, 2015, 9(11): 2490~2502

[15] Li, Bing; Ju, Feng^#; Cai, Lin; Zhang, Tong*,Profile and Fate of Bacterial Pathogens in Sewage Treatment Plants Revealed by High-Throughput Metagenomic Approach, Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49(17): 10492~10502

2019:      Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province for Distinguished Young Scholars

2016:      The First Prize of Natural Science, Ministry of Education, China

2016:      The State Environmental Protection Young Talent of Professional Technology

2013:      Finalist of 2013 Young Scientist Awards, Hong Kong Institution of Science

2012:      Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student Award，The University of Hong Kong