Yong Wang

Sep. 1993 - Jun. 1997   B.S. in Biochemistry, Lanzhou University, China

Sep. 1997 - Jun. 2000   M.S. in Marine Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, China

Jan. 2001 - Apr. 2004   Ph.D. in Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Feb. 2022 - present,  Professor, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China

Aug. 2013 - Feb.2022, Senior Scientist, Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Feb. 2012 - Aug. 2013, Postdoctoral Fellow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

Dec. 2009 - Feb. 2012, Postdoctoral Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Jan. 2008 - Oct. 2008, Senior Research Assistant, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

May. 2004 - Dec. 2007, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Committee of Microbial Resource, Chinese Ocean Research Committee;

Member of the expert Group of the National Medium - and Long-term Scientific and Technological Development Plan for 2035;

Member of the 4th Marine Microbiology Committee of Chinese Society of Microbiology;

Associate editor of Frontier Marine Sciences

Associate editor of Deep Sea Research Part I

Editor of Microorganisms

Guest editor of eLife

Director of Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Marine Ecology

Progress and Development of Marine Biological Science 70460132 (2 credits, 32 hours/year)

Genomics data processing algorithms and programming implementation 85991062 (2 credits, 32 hours/year)

• PhD graduates: Jiao-Mei Huang, Guo-Jie Cui, Wen-Li Li, Zhan-Fei Wei

• Master graduates: Yu-Zhi Wu, Rui Lu

• PhD candidates: Ying-Li Zhou, Qing-Mei Li, Hong-Xi Zhang

• Master candidates: Tao-Shu Wei, Hua-Guan Xu, Yu-Hang Zhang

Professor Wang has long been engaged in deep-sea environmental microbiology genomics research and the development of in-situ ecological monitoring equipment. He has played a key role in advancing deep-sea in-situ biological research, which has been incorporated into one of the 13 deep-sea frontier directions in the Ministry of Science and Technology of People’s Republic of China's 2035 plan. His work has pioneered in situ research and exploration of deep-sea ecosystems, and he has led the design and development of China's first in-situ biological laboratory, the Phoenix lander. As the principal investigator, he has led the Hadal Life Sciences Research Project (Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Category B) and the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Key Research and Development Program. He received the second prize of the 2016 National Natural Science Award (ranked 3) and was honored as an Innovation Leading Talent under the Thousand Talents Plan. He serves as the lead of the Twilight Zone of Western Pacific Ocean Ecosystem Research Program under the The UN Ocean Decade  initiative. Professor Wang has published over 120 SCI papers and book chapters in prestigious international journals and holds 5 Chinese invention patents. His SCI papers have been cited nearly 8000 times, and he has delivered over 30 keynote presentations and papers at academic conferences. He is one of the top 2% highest cited scholars according to Standford University.

• Chinese Key Research and Development Program (2016YFC0302500)

• National Science Foundation of China (31460001)

• National Science Foundation of China (41476104) 

• The Strategic Priority Research Program B of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB06010201)

[1] Yong Wang*, Jiaomei Huang. LIR: A package for identification of long inverted repeats in genomes. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, 2017, 15: 141-146.

[2] Li-Sheng He, Peiwei Zhang, Jiaomei Huang, Fang-Chao Zhu, Antoine Danchin, Yong Wang*. The enigmatic genome of an obligate ancient Spiroplasma symbiont in a hadal holothurian. Appl Env Microbiol. 2018, 84: e01965-17

[3] Yong Wang*, Fang-Chao Zhu, Li-Sheng He, Antoine Danchin*. Unique tRNA gene profile suggests paucity of nucleotide modifications in anticodons of a deep-sea symbiotic Spiroplasma. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018, 46：2197-2203.

[4] Yong Wang*, Jiaomei Huang, Guojie Cui, Takuro Nunoura, Y. Takaki, Wenli Li, Jun Li, Zhaoming Gao, Takai Ken, Aiqun Zhang, Ramunas Stepanauskas. Genomics insights into ecotype formation of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in the deep ocean. Environ. Microbiol. 2019,21:716-729.

[5] Yong Wang*, Zhaoming Gao, Jun Li, Lisheng He, Guojie Cui, Wen-Li Li, Jun Chen, Yongzhi Xin, Dusi Cai, Aiqun Zhang. Hadal water sampling by in situ microbial filtration and fixation (ISMIFF) apparatus. Deep-Sea Res I. 2019, 144:132-137

[6] Jiaomei Huang, Brett Baker, Jiaotao Li, Yong Wang*. New microbial lineages capable of carbon fixation and nutrient cycling in deep-sea sediments of the northern South China Sea. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 2019, 85: 00523-19

[7] Zhaoming Gao, Jiaomei Huang, Guojie Cui, Wenli Li, Jun Li, Zhanfei Wei, Jun Chen, Yongzhi Xin, Dusi Cai, Aiqun Zhang, Yong Wang.* In situ meta-omic insights into the community compositions and ecological roles of hadal microbes in the Mariana Trench. Environ. Microbiol. 2019, 21:4192-4108

[8] Zhanfei Wei, Wenli Li, Jun Li, Jun Chen, Yongzhi Xin, Lisheng He, Yong Wang*. Multiple in situ nucleic acid collections (MISNAC) from deep-sea waters. Front. Mar. Sci. 2020, 18: 00081.

[9] Yong Wang*, Jiaomei Huang, Yongli Zhou, Alexandra Almerda, Robert Finn, Antoine Danchin, Lisheng He. Phylogenomics of expanding uncultured environmental Tenericutes provides insights into their pathogenicity and evolutionary relationship with Bacilli. BMC Genomics 2020, 21: 408.

[10] Guojie Cui, Yingli Zhou, Wenli Li, Zhaoming Gao, Jiaomei Huang, Yong Wang.* A novel bacterial phylum that participates in carbon and osmolyte cycling in the Challenger Deep sediments. Environ. Microbiol. 2020, 23: 3758-3772

[11] Yong Wang*, Wenli Li, Qingmei Li, Yingli Zhou, Zhaoming Gao, Dong Feng. Deep-sea carbonates are a reservoir of fossil microbes previously inhabiting cold seeps. Front. Mar. Sci. 2021, 8: 698545.

[12] Wenli Li, Xiyang Dong, Rui Lu, Pengfei Zheng, Dong Feng, Yong Wang.* Microbial ecology of sulfur cycling near the sulfate–methane transition of deep-sea cold seep sediments. Environ. Microbiol. 2021, 23: 6844-6858.

[13] Yong Wang*, Wenli Li, Brett Baker, Yingli Zhou, Lisheng He, Antoine Danchin, Qingmei Li, Zhaoming. Carbon metabolism and adaptation of hyperalkaliphilic microbes in serpentinizing spring of Manleluag, the Philippines. Environ. Microbiol. Rep. 2022,14: 308-319

[14] Yingli Zhou#, Paraskevi Mara#, Guojie Cui, Virginia Edgcomb, Yong Wang*. Microbiomes in the Challenger Deep slope and bottom-axis sediments. Nature Communications. 2022, 13: 1515  

[15] Pengfei Zheng, Zhanfei Wei, Yingli Zhou, Qingmei Li, Qi Zhi, Xiaoping Diao, Yong Wang*. Genomic evidence for the recycling of complex organic carbon by novel Thermoplasmatota clades in deep-sea sediments. mSystems. 2022, 00072-22.

[16] Yong Wang*#, Hong-Yu Bi#, Hua-Guan Chen, Peng-Fei Zheng, Ying-Li Zhou, Jiang-Tao Li. Metagenomics reveals dominant unusual sulfur oxidizers inhabiting active hydrothermal chimneys from the Southwest Indian Ridge. Frontier in Microbiology, 2022, 13:861795.

[17] Xiyang Dong#, Chuwen Zhang#, Yongyi Peng, Hong-Xi Zhang, Ling-Dong Shi, Guangshan Wei, Casey R J Hubert, Yong Wang*, Chris Greening. Phylogenetically and catabolically diverse diazotrophs reside in deep-sea cold seep sediments. Nature Communications, 2022, 13: 4885.

[18] Ying-Li Zhou#, Paraskevi Mara#, Dean Vik, Virginia P Edgcomb, Matthew B Sullivan, Yong Wang*. Ecogenomics reveals viral communities across the Challenger Deep oceanic trench. Communications Biology, 2022, 5: 1055.

[19] Yong Wang*, Jun Li, Zhanfei Wei, Qingmei Li, Yingli Zhou, Wenli Li, Jun Chen, Suixue Wang,   Yongzhi Xin, Aiqun Zhang. In situ cultivation of deep-sea water with bicarbonate fueled a different microbial community. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2022, 41:1-7

[20] Tao-Shu Wei, Zhao-Ming Gao*, Lin Gong, Qing-Mei Li, Ying-Li Zhou, Hua-Guan Chen, Li-Sheng He, Yong Wang*. (2023) Genome-centric view of the microbiome in a new deep-sea glass sponge species Bathydorus sp. Front. Microbiol. 2023, 14:1078171

[21] Rulong Liu, Yong Wang*, Gordon Webster*. (2023) Microbiology of deep-sea carbon cycling. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1236593.

[22] Zhaoming Gao, Ting Xu, Huaguan Chen, Rui L, Jun Tao, Hongbin Wang, Jianwen Qiu*, Yong Wang*. (2023) Early genome erosion and internal phage-symbiont-host interaction in the endosymbionts of a cold-seep tubeworm. iScience, 26, 107033.

[23] Hongxi Zhang, Taoshu, Jiushuang Zhang, Qingmei Li, Liang Fu, Lisheng He, Yong Wang*. (2024) Microbial mediation of cryptic methane cycle in semiclosed marine water column. The Innovation Geoscience, 2, 100082.

[24] Hongxi Zhang, Taoshu Wei, Qingmei Li, Liang Fu, Manjie Li, Lisheng He, Yong Wang*. (2024) Metagenomic 18S rDNA reads revealed zonation of eukaryotic communities in the Yongle blue hole. Frontiers of Microbiology, 15, 1420899.

[25] Binghe Zhao, Mucong Zi, Xiaoyu Zhang*, Yong Wang*. (2024) Microbial communities and metagenomes in methane-rich deep coastal sediments. Scientific Data, 11: 1043.

[26] Zhuobo Li, Yinghui He, Hongxi Zhang, Haifeng Qian, Yong Wang* (2024) Biotransformations of arsenic in marine sediments across marginal slope to hadal zone. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 135955.

1. Yong Wang and Pei-Yuan Qian. 2013. Conserved regions in 16S ribosome RNA sequences and primer design for studies of environmental microbes. Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. 

2. Yong Wang and Pei-Yuan Qian. 2014. Phylogenetic relationships among Acidobacteria subdivisions reconstructed using conservative sites in 16S rRNA genes. Encyclopedia of Metagenomics.

3. Guojie Cui and Yong Wang. 2021. Chapter 5: Hadal microbial communities, diversity and ecological functions. Hadal Science. Science Press (in Chinese)

National Natural Science Award in 2016 (second class, rank 3)

National Science and Technology Department Award of young talent in 2017

Top 10 Progress nominations Society of Lake Algae and Oceanography in 2018

Excellence award of ‘One-Hundred Talents’ in 2019

Chinese Academy of Sciences Hundred People Program final award of excellence

The title of Outstanding Talent of Hainan Province

Class A, Pengcheng Scholars of Shenzhen City