Research Interest :

· Environmental microbiology, biological nitrogen removal, microscale spatial omics

Featured Funded Projects :

· Chen L#, Zhao B#, Zhang M, Yan Y, Nie C, Yu K, Tu Z, Xia Y*. (2025) Micron-scale Heterogeneity Reduction Leads to Increased Interspecies Competition in Thermophilic Digestion Microbiome. Water Research 279, 123419.

· Nie C#, Chen L#*, Zhao B, Wu Z, Zhang M, Yan Y, Li B and Xia Y*. (2024) Deciphering the adaptation mechanism of anammox consortia under sulfamethoxazole stress: A model coupling resistance accumulation and interspecies-cooperation. Journal of hazardous materials 476, 135074.

· Zhao B#, Chen L#, Nie C, Zhang M, Yang Q, Yu K, Xia Y*. (2023) Electric-inductive microbial interactions in thermophilic anaerobic digester revealed by high throughput sequencing of micron-scale single flocs. Environmental Science & Technology 57, (10), 4367-4378.

· Chen L#, Zhao B#, Alejandro Palomo, Sun Y, Cheng Z, Zhang M, Xia Y*. (2022) Micron-scale biogeography reveals conservative intra anammox bacteria spatial co-associations. Water Research 220, 118640.

· Chen L#, Li J#, Tang Y*, Wang S, Lu X, Cheng Z, Zhang X, Wu P, Chang X and Xia Y*. (2021) Typhoon-induced turbulence redistributed microplastics in coastal areas and reformed plastisphere community. Water Research 204, 117580.

· Chen L, Zhao B, Li X, Cheng Z, Wu R* and Xia Y*. (2021) Isolating and characterizing translationally active fraction of anammox microbiota using bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging. Chemical Engineering Journal 418, 129411.

· Chen L, Liu S*, Chen Q, Zhu G, Wu X, Wang J et al. (2020) Dispersal limitation drives biogeographical patterns of anammox bacterial communities across the Yangtze River. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 104: 5535–5546

· Chen L, Liu S*, Chen Q, Zhu G, Wu X, Wang J et al. (2019) Anammox response to natural and anthropogenic impacts over the Yangtze River. Science of the Total Environment 665: 171–180.