Professor Zhiyuan Tan（谭志远教授）
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
TEL:020-38604857E-mail:zytan@scau.edu.cn
CURRENT POSITION
EDUCATIONS & QUALIFICATIONS
1987.09-1994.07: undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University.
1992.09-1997.07: postgraduate and doctoral studies at China Agricultural University.
EMPOLYMENT EXPERIENCE:
2009 06-12: be invited to the Stanford University as a senior visiting scholar;
2007: beselected as the new century talent support program of the Ministry of education, and won the honorary title of excellent instructor for the Tenth National Challenge Cupof National College extracurricular academic and scientific and technological works competition;
2004-2006:member of trainees of Thousand-Hundred-Ten Program of Guangdong Province
In 2003, started work at South China Agricultural University as a Bringing in Talent;
2002.02-2003.03, postdoctoral research, molecular biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Bremen in Germany;
1999.02 - 2001.01: postdoctoral research, microbiology and
genetics,Soil Microbiology of Max Planck Institute MPI
1997.09 - 1999.09, postdoctoral research, Institution of genetics of Chinese Academy of sciences(CAS).
RESEARCH INTEREST
Studies on biological nitrogen fixation, microbial classification, gene cloning and expression, biological fertilizer and microbial fermentation products of wild rice and other gramineous crops
FUNDING
PUBLICATIONS
1.Chaudhary, Hassan Jarved, Guixiang Peng, Mei Hu, Yumei He, Lijuan Yang, Yan Luoand Zhiyuan Tan*(Corresponding author) . Genetic diversity ofendophytic diazotrophs of the wild rice, Oryza alta and identification of the new diazotroph, Acinetobacter oryzae sp. nov. Microb Ecol. 2012, 63:813-821.
2. Zhiyuan Tan*(Corresponding author), Guixiang Peng, Peizhi Xu, Shaoying Ai, Hushuan Tang, Guoxia Zhang, Fengyun Zeng. Diversity and high nitrogenase activity of endophytic diazotrophs isolated from Oryza rufipogon Griff. 2009, Chinese Science Bulletin. 2009, 54: 2839-2848.
3. Guixiang Peng, Wu Zhang, huifen Luo, Hongwei Xie, Weihao Lai, and Zhiyuan Tan*(Corresponding author). Enterobacter oryzae sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from wild rice Oryza latifolia. Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol. 2009, 59: 1650 – 1655.
3. Guixiang Peng, Qinghua Yuan, Huaxing Li, Wu Zhang, Zhiyuan Tan*(Corresponding author). Rhizobium oryzae sp. nov., isolated from wild rice Oryza alta. Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol. 2008, 58: 2158-2163.
4. Guo Xia Zhang, Gui Xiang Peng, En Tao Wang, Hui Yan, Qing Hua Yuan, Wu Zhang, Xu Lou, Hui Wu, Zhiyuan Tan*(Corresponding author). Diverse endophytic nitrogen-fixing bacteria isolated from wild rice Oryza rufipogon and description of Phytobacter diazotrophicus gen. nov. sp. nov. Arch. Microbiol. 2008, 189: 431-489。
5. En Tao Wang, Zhi Yuan Tan, Xian Wu Guo, Rolando Rodríguez-Duran, Gisela Boll, Esperanza Martínez-Romero. Diverse endophytic bacteria isolated from a leguminous tree Conzattia multiflora grown in Mexico. Arch. Microbiol. 2006, 186 (4), 251-259.
6. Guixiang Peng, Huarong Wang, G.uoxia Zhang, Wei Hou, Yang Liu, Eentao Wang and Zhiyuan Tan*(Corresponding author). Azospirillum melinis sp. nov., a group of diazotrophs isolated from tropical molasses grass. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2006, 56, 1263-1271.
7. Zhiyuan Tan, Thomas Hurek, and Barbara Reinhold-Hurek. Effect of Nitrogen fertilization, plant genotype and environmental conditions on nifH gene pools in roots of rice. Environmental Microbiology. 2003, 5(10): 1009-1015.
8. Zhiyuan Tan and Barbara Reinhold-Hurek. Dechlorosoma suillum Achenbach et al. 2001 is a later subjective synonym of Azospira oryzae Reinhold-Hurek & Hurek, 2000. Internation, al Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2003, 53(4): 1139-1142.
9. Zhiyuan Tan, Thomas Hurek, Prasad Gyaneshwar, Jagdish K. Ladha and Barbara Reinhold-Hurek. Specific detection of Bradyrhizobium and Rhizobium strains colonizing rice (Oryza sativa) roots by 16S-23S ribosomal DNA intergenic spacer-targeted PCR. Applied Environmental Microbiology. 2001, 67(8): 3655-3664.
10. Zhiyuan Tan, Fengling Kan, Guixiang Peng, Entao Wang, Reinhold-Hurek Barbara, and Wenxin Chen. Rhizobium yanglinganum sp. nov. isolated from arid and semi-arid regions in China. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2001, 51(3): 909-914.
11. Zhiyuan Tan, Thomas Hurek, Prasad Gyaneshwar, Jagdish K. Ladha and Barbara Reinhold-Hurek. Novel endophytes of rice form a taxonomically distinct subgroup of Serratia marcescens. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 2001, 24: 245-251.
12. Zhiyuan Tan, Entao Wang, Guixiang Peng, Ming-e Zhu, E. Martinez-Romero, and Wenxin Chen. Characterization of bacteria isolated from wild legumes in the north-western regions of China. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 1999, 49: 1457-1469.
13. Zhiyuan Tan, Xiaodong Xu, Entao Wang, Junlian Gao, Esperanza Martinez-Romero and Wenxin Chen. Phylogenetic and genetic relationships of Mesorhizobium tianshanense and related rhizobia. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 1997, 47(3): 874-879.
14. Ge Hong Wei, Zhi Yuan Tan, Ming E Zhu, En Tao Wang, Su Zhen Han and Wen Xin Chen. Characterization of rhizobia isolated from legume species within the genera Astragalus and Lespedeza grown in the Loess Plateau of China and description of Rhizobium loessense sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2003, 53: 1575-1583.
15. En Tao Wang, Feng Ling Kan, Zhi Yuan Tan, Ivonne Toledo, Wen Xin Chen and Esperanza Martinez-Romero. Diverse Mesorhizobium plurifarium populations native to Mexican soils. Archives of Microbiology. 2003, 180: 444-454.
16. Entao Wang, Zhiyuan Tan, Anne Willems, Barbara Reinhold-Hurek and Esperanza Martínez-Romero. Sinorhizobium morelense, sp. nov. a Leucaena leucocephala- associating bacterium that is highly resistant to multiple antibiotics. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2002, 52: 1687-1693.
17. Guixiang Peng, Zhiyuan Tan, Entao Wang, Barbara Reinhold-Hurek, and Wenxin Chen. Identification of isolates from soybean nodules in Xinjiang region as Sinorhizobium xinjiangense and genetic differentiation of S. xinjiangense from S. fredii. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2002, 52: 457-462.
18. Gehong Wei, Entao Wang, Zhiyuan Tan, Minge Zhu, and Wenxin Chen. Rhizobium indigoferae sp. nov. and Sinorhizobium kummerowiae sp. nov., respectively isolated from Indigofera spp. and Kummerowia stipulacea. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2002, 52: 2231-2239.
19. Jun-Lian Gao, Sarah Lea Turner, Feng Ling Kan, En Tao Wang, Zhi Yuan Tan, Yu Hui Qiu, Jun Gu, Zewdu Terefework,. Peter W. Young, Kristina Lindstrom and Wen Xin Chen. Mesorhizobium septentrionale sp. nov. and Mesorhizobium temperatum sp. nov., isolated from Astragalus adsurgens growing in the northern regions of China. International Journal Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2004, 54: 2003-2012.
20. Aimin Yan, Entao Wang, Fenglin Kan, Zhiyuan Tan, Xinhua Sui, Barbara Reinhold-Hurek & Wenxin Chen. Sinorhizobium meliloti associated with Medicago sativa and Melilotus spp. in arid saline soils in Xinjiang, China. International Journal Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2000, 50: 1887- 1891.
21. Thomas Hurek, Zhiyuan Tan, Natarajan Mathan, Tanja Egener, michaela Engelhard, Prasad Gyaneshwar, Jagdish K. Ladha, Barbara Reinhold-Hurek. Novel nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with the roots interior of rice. The quest for nitrogen fixation in rice (Edited by J. K. Ladha and P. M. Reddy). Pp. 47-62. 1999. IRRI.
27. Barbara Reinhold-Hurek, Zhiyuan Tan and Thomas Hurek. Genus Azoarcus Reinhold-Hurek, Hurek, Gillis, Hoste, Vancanneyt, Kersters and De Ley 1993, 582VP. Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology
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