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Fanghua Liu
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Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Biogeochemistry

Fanghua Liu

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Summary

Liu Fanghua, Professor and doctoral supervisor of Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was supported by a fellowship of the Max-Planck Society, “Hundred Talents Program” of CAS. He is a member of the Shandong Society for Microbiology and honored by “Two Hundred Talents Program” of Yantai. His researches have been focused on the mechanisms of microbial electron transfer. The major advances he has achieved in five years include a milestone, direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) between bacteria and methanogenenic archaea. In the meantime, a new pathway of methanogenesis from acetate indirectly and related microorganisms were revealed. Furthermore, a new cluster of microorganisms which can fix carbon dioxide was identified. During the studies of microbe-iron oxides electron transfer, conductive granular activated carbon (GAC) and magnetite nanoparticles can promote the electron transfer among the iron(III)-reducing bacteria and that magnetite nanoparticles could substitute for the function of a c-type cytochrome were revealed.

Agricultural Science Biodiversity Environmental Sciences Microbiology Soil Science

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Work details

Professor

Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Biological Resources Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
February 2013
I am interested with the mechanisms of microbial electron transfer. We found the direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) between bacteria and methanogenenic archaea. During the studies of microbe-iron oxides electron transfer, conductive granular activated carbon (GAC) and magnetite nanoparticles can promote the electron transfer among the iron(III)-reducing bacteria and that magnetite nanoparticles could substitute for the function of a c-type cytochrome were revealed.

Ph.D student

Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology
September 2002 - January 2009

Max Planck Society Visiting Scholar

Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
February 2009 - January 2011

Postdoc

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
February 2011 - February 2013
Department of Microbiology

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
March 21, 2018
Necessity of electrically conductive pili for methanogenesis with magnetite stimulation
Oumei Wang, Shiling Zheng, Bingchen Wang, Wenjing Wang, Fanghua Liu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4541 PubMed 29576990