Marine Microbe Physiology & Ecology Lab

Xiaoxue Wang

Professor & Principal Investigator

Dr. Xiaoxue Wang is a Level 2 Research Fellow and doctoral supervisor at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She focuses on marine microbial metabolism and environmental adaptation mechanisms, particularly the interactions between phages and hosts and their ecological functions. She has published over 50 papers as corresponding or first author in prestigious journals including Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Communications, PNAS, Nucleic Acids Research, and ISME J. Dr. Wang received her B.S. from Ocean University of China in 2000 and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2006. After postdoctoral research at Rutgers University and Texas A&M University (2007-2011), she joined the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology in late 2011 and established the Marine Biofilm Research Group. She received the Young Thousand Talents Program support in 2012, the National Science Foundation's Outstanding Young Scientist Award in 2016, and was selected as a Leading Talent in Science and Technology Innovation in 2018.