My name is Daliang Ning. I am a research scientist in the Institute for Environmental Genomics (IEG), and the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, since June 2016. My current focus is on microbial ecology, particular mathematical ecology and community assembly mechanisms, in environment engineering and in response to global changes. My recent representative products include quantitative frameworks for community assembly mechanism research and global biodiversity of wastewater microbiome, published in Nature Communications, PNAS, and Nature Microbiology. Till Oct 29, 2023, I have published 90 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited over 7,177 times by scientists from 112 countries. I am serving as a responsible editor for a SCI journal, Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, and was a topic editor for Frontiers in Microbiology. I am currently a co-PI of two NSF collaborative projects, and won OU’s Annual Award for Excellence in Research Grants in 2020 and 2021.
I enjoyed my young ages in a beautiful town, Taining, Fujian Province, in the southeast of China. Then, I spent thirteen years in Tsinghua University (Beijing), one of the best universities in China. I received Bachelor and Ph.D. and performed postdoctoral research in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering (named School of Environment since January 2011) in Tsinghua University. During those years, I was fortunately supervised by Profs. Yi Qian (member of China Engineering Academy), Hui Wang, Hongyi Hu, and Xiaojian Zhang. My research covered broad topics including wastewater disinfection, persistent pollutant biodegradation in fungi, urban river remediation, health risk evaluation, and microbiome in urban river and forest soil. In September 2012, I came to IEG and began to focus on microbial ecology, following Prof. Jizhong Zhou, an eminent scientist and inspiring mentor. After four-year postdoctoral research, I became a research scientist to continue our exciting journey for mechanistic and predictive understanding of microbiome in this dramatically changing planet.
Education
2012.9 – 2016.5
Postdoc
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
2009.7 – 2012.6
Postdoc
School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2009.7
Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Tsinghua University, China
2003.7
Bachelor in Environmental Engineering
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Tsinghua University, China
Appointment
2022.4 –
Associate Director
Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
2016.6 –
Research Scientist
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, and Consolidated Core Laboratory, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
2021.4 –
Affiliate Research Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
2020.6 –
Responsible Editor
Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering
2021.3 – 2022.8
Topic Editor
Frontiers in Microbiology
2017.11-2020.12
Adjunct Research Scientist
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
update 2023.8.26