1.TOPIC

Insight into Microbial Metabolisms in the Deepest Seawater on Earth

2.TIME

November 9th, 9:30

3.LOCATION

Room A407, Ocean Science and Technology Building, Laoshan Campus

4.SPEAKER

ZHANG Xiaohua

5.SPEAKER’s INTRODUCTION

Xiao-Hua Zhang is a professor in microbial oceanography at Ocean University of China. She received her PhD degree in Microbiology from Heriot-Watt University, UK, in 2001, and subsequently worked as postdoctors at Oxford University and Cambridge University, UK, before she returned to Ocean University of China. In 2004, she became full professor and a group leader at Ocean University of China. Her current research interests are microbial oceanography (including roles of marine microorganisms in driving biogeochemical cycles, quorum sensing and quorum quenching of marine bacteria, and marine bacterial taxonomy and resource development).