Ji-Dong received his BSc degree from Heilongjiang August First Land Reclamation University (P.R. China), MSc degree from University of Alberta (Canada), and PhD degree from Virginia Tech (USA). He worked in the Microbial Ecology Laboratory of Harvard University between 1993 and 1998 and then joined The University of Hong Kong in 1999 as an assistant professor and then in 2004 promoted to associate professor. He takes the current position with Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology in the summer of 2020. He is the Editor-in-Chief for International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, and an Associate Editor for Ecotoxicology, and Journal of Polymers and the Environment.

• Archaea
• Environmental Microbiology
• Oilfield Microbiology
• Microbiology of Cultural Heritage

Liu, Y., J. Chen, L. Zaramela, L.-Y. Wang, S.M. Mbdinga, Z.-W. Hou, X.-L. Wu, J.-D. Gu, K. Zengler, and B.-Z. Mu (2020) Genomic and transcriptomic evidence supports methane metabolism in Archaeglobi. mSystems 10: 11. DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00651-19

Wu, R., B. Chai, J.R. Cole, S.K. Ganturu, X. Guo, R. Tian, J.-D. Gu, J. Zhou, and J. Tiedje (2020) Targeted assemblies of cas1 suggests CRISPR-CAS’s response to soil warming. The ISME Journal DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-0635-1

Yang, Y., H. Daims, Y. Liu, C. Herbold, P. Pjevac, J.-G. Lin, M. Li, and J.-D. Gu (2020) Activity and metabolic versatility of complete ammonia oxidizers in full-scale wastewater treatment systems. mBio 11: e03175-19 DOI: 10.1128/mBio.03175-19

Yang, Y., J. Pan, Z. Zhou, J. Wu, Y. Liu, J.-G. Lin, Y. Hong, X. Li, M. Li, and J.-D. Gu (2020) Complex microbial nitrogen-cycling networks in three distinct anammox-inoculated wastewater treatment systems. Water Research DOI: 10.1016/j.waters.2019.115142

Liu, Y.-F., Z.-Z. Qi, L.-B. Shou, J.-F. Liu, S.-Z. Yang, J.-D. Gu, and B.-Z. Mu (2019) Anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation in candidate phylum ‘Atribacteria’ (JS1) inferred from genomics. The ISME Journal 13: 2377−2390. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0448-2