Shanquan Wang

Shanquan Wang

Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. His research focuses on environmental microbiology, especially onorganohalide-respiring bacteria and their conversion of halogenated persistentorganic pollutants (POPs). He was awardedas SYSU Bairen Scholar and Zhujiang Youth Scholar in 2016 and 2018, respectively. His research focus on functional environmental anaerobic microorganisms and their conversion of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). He integrate microbial cultivation, metagenomics, molecular techniques and bioreactor operation to gain fundamental insights of our complex biosystems (e.g. bioremediation sites and anaerobic digesters) specifically from molecular-, cellular-, community- to system-levels. The generated knowledge on these reductive processes will be further employed to devise novel methods, techniques and products for our environmental engineering purposes. 

Title: Organohalide-respiring bacteria in polluted urban rivers employ novel bifunctional reductive dehalogenases to dechlorinate polychlorinated biphenyls and perchloroethene