CHEN Bao-dong, Ph.D.

Professor of Soil Ecology

State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 18 Shuangqinglu, Haidian Disctrict, Beijing 100085, P.R. China

+8610-62849068, beechen@rcees.ac.cn, http://english.rcees.cas.cn/rh/rd/

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

Humboldt Research Fellow as Experienced researcher, Berlin Free University, Germany; 2009-2011 (non-continuous).

JSPS Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental Biology, National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Sciences, Japan; 2006-2008.

Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental Biology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS; 2002-2004.

Ph.D. China Agricultural University, Agriculture (Plant Nutrition); 2002.

B.S. China Agricultural University, Agriculture (Soil Science and Plant Nutrition); 1997.

APPOINTMENTS

2008-present, Professor of Soil Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS.

2006, Associate professor, Department of Soil Environmental Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS;

2004-2006, Assistant professor, Department of Soil Environmental Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS;

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

(1)     Zhang X, Ren BH, Wu SL, Sun YQ, Lin G, Chen BD*, 2015. Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis influences arsenic accumulation and speciation in Medicago truncatula L. in arsenic-contaminated soil. Chemosphere 119: 224-230.

(2)     Xiang D, Verbruggen E, Hu YJ, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC, Zhou WP, Xu TL, Li H, Hao ZP, Chen YL, Chen BD*, 2014. Land use influences arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China. New Phytologist 204: 968-978.

(3)     Hu YJ, Xiang D, Veresoglou SD, Chen FL, Chen YL, Hao ZP, Zhang X, Chen BD*, 2014. Soil organic carbon and soil structure are driving microbial abundance and community composition across the arid and semi-arid grasslands in northern China. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 77: 51-57.

(4)     Chen YL, Hu HW, Han HY, Du Y, Wan SQ, Xu ZW, Chen BD*, 2014. Abundance and community structure of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria in response to fertilization and mowing in a temperate steppe in Inner Mongolia. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 89: 67-79.

(5)     Chen YL, Zhang X, Ye JS, Han HY, Wan SQ, Chen BD*, 2014. Six-year fertilization modifies the biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a temperate steppe in Inner Mongolia. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 69: 371-381.

(6)     Li T, Hu YJ, Hao ZP, Li H, Wang YS, Chen BD*, 2013. First cloning and characterization of two functional aquaporin genes from an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices. New Phytologist 197: 617–630.

(7)     Chen BD, Roos P, Borggaard OK., Zhu YG and Jakobsen I, 2005. Mycorrhiza and root hairs in barley enhance acquisition of phosphorus and uranium from phosphate rock but mycorrhiza decreases root to shoot uranium transfer. New Phytologist 165: 591-598.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2006, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Japan) for Oversee Scientists.

2009, Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (Germany) for Experienced Researchers.

2009, CAS “Hundred Talent Program” (China).

2009, State Natural Science Award, Second Prize (China).

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Editorial Board: Plant and Soil (2005-2013), Pedobiologia (2009-), Acta Ecologica Sinica (2013-)

Grant Reviewer: NSFC, K.C. Wong Education Foundation

Journal reviewer: Plant and Soil, Environmental Pollution, Pedobiologia, Applied Soil Ecology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Chemosphere, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Pedosphere, etc.