General Information
Name: Cai Yuanfeng
Title: Associate Professor
Work Email: yfcai@issas.ac.cn
Work Phone: 025-86881850
Research Fields
Physiology and ecology of methane oxidizing bacteria
Soil microorganisms
Microbial ecology
Education Background
2009-2012, Ph.D, Environmental Science, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
2006-2009, Master, Microbiology and Biochemical Pharmacy, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
2000-2004, Bachelor, Biotechnology, Yantai University, Yantai, China
Professional Experience
2021-Present, Associate Professor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
2017-2021, Assistant Professor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
2012-2017, Postdoctor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Projects
Spatial distribution pattern and metabolic activity regulation mechanism of atmospheric methane oxidizing bacteria USCγ in grassland, 2023.01-2026.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI)
Spatial Variation and microbial metabolic mechanism of trace atmospheric methane oxidation activity in typical paddy soils of China, 2019.01-2022.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI)
Atmospheric methane oxidizing bacteria in forest soils and paddy soils and their driving mechanisms of atmospheric methane oxidization, 2015.01-2017.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI)
Publications
(1) Cai Yuanfeng*, Yun Juanli, Jia Zhongjun*. Phylogeny and metabolic potential of the methanotrophic lineage MO3 in Beijerinckiaceae from the paddy soil through metagenome-assembled genome reconstruction. Microorganisms, 2022, 10: 955.
(2) Shi Limei*, Cai Yuanfeng, Gao Shengling, Fang Daoyan, Lu Yaping, Li Pengfu, Wu Qinglong L.* Gene expression in the microbial consortia of colonial Microcystis aeruginosa-a potential buoyant particulate biofilm. Environmental Microbiology. 2022, 24: 4931-4945.
(3) Cao Weiwei, Cai Yuanfeng, Bao Zhihua, Wang Shuwei, Yan Xiaoyuan, Jia Zhongjun*. Methanotrophy alleviates nitrogen constraint of carbon turnover by rice root-associated microbiomes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022, 13: 885087.
(4) Cai Yuanfeng, Zhou Xue, Shi Limei, Jia Zhongjun*. Atmospheric methane oxidizers are dominated by upland soil cluster alpha in 20 forest soils of China. Microbial Ecology, 2020, 80: 859-871.
(5) Cai Yuanfeng, Zheng Yan, Paul L.E. Bodelier, Ralf Conrad, Jia Zhongjun*. Conventional methanotrophs are responsible for atmospheric methane oxidation in paddy soils. Nature Communications, 2016, 7: 11728.
(6) Zhao Jun, Cai Yuanfeng, Jia Zhongjun*. The pH-based ecological coherence of active canonical methanotrophs in paddy soils. Biogeosciences, 2020, 17:1451-1462.
(7) Cai Yuanfeng, Kong Fanxiang*. Diversity and dynamics of picocyanobacteria and bloom-forming cyanobacteria in a large shallow eutrophic lake (lake Chaohu, China). Journal of Limnology, 2013, 72: 473-484.
(8) Cai Yuanfeng, Kong Fanxiang*, Shi Limei, Yu Yang. Spatial heterogeneity of cyanobacterial communities and genetic variation of Microcystis populations within large, shallow eutrophic lakes (Lake Taihu and Lake Chaohu, China). Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2012, 24: 1832-1842.
Awards & Honors
2022, The 17th Science and Technology Award, Soil Science Society of China , China
2019, Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
