Welcome

Guang He

Guang He, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

📧 ghe3@vols.utk.edu

📧121838345@qq.com

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“Persist, insist, and then make it succeed”

About Me

I was born into a working-class family and grew up in a free, supportive environment. Since 2017, I have pursued environmental soil microbiology with a focus on microbial processes regulating greenhouse gas fluxes across diverse ecosystems. My research integrates microbial cultivation, genome-resolved metagenomics, and genome-scale metabolic modeling to investigate novel microbial N2O sinks.

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Löffler Lab, where I study the physiology and genomics of N2O-reducing bacteria, with implications for climate-smart agriculture and biogeochemical cycling.

I am always open to collaborative opportunities and welcome connections with researchers interested in microbial physiology, environmental microbiology, and greenhouse gas mitigation.

Education（教育背景）

2024–present, Postdoctoral Research Associate (博士后研究助理), Löffler Lab, University of Tennessee, U.S.
2019–2023, Ph.D., University of Tennessee (田纳西大学), U.S, supervised by Prof. Frank E. Löffler
2017–2019, Master, China Agricultural University (中国农业大学), supervised by Prof. Junling Zhang
2013–2017, Bachelor, Hunan Agricultural University (湖南农业大学), China

Research Focus

  • Microbial N2O sinks in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
  • Cultivate fastidious microorganisms
  • Denitrification and respiratory versatility in soil bacteria
  • Synthetic microbiomes for bioaugmentation in regenerative agriculture

News & Updates

  • 🧪 My leading paper — A novel bacterial protein family catalyzing nitrous oxide reduction — is now published in Nature, and highlighted in Research Briefing (2025, August).

  • 🌍 A collaborating review article “Nitrous oxide sources, mechanisms and mitigation” is now published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2025, August).

  • 🗞 Invited to write for Nature News & Views (2024, May) — Nitrogen-hungry bacteria added to farm soils curb greenhouse-gas emissions.

  • 🧬 My first leading paper — Sustained bacterial N₂O reduction at acidic pH — is now published in Nature Communications (2024, May).

  • 🥳 Ph.D. awarded in December 2023