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Brief CV

  • PhD, Ocean University of China (2007)

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, North Carolina Central University, USA (2008-2011)

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Ulsan, Korea (2011-2012)

  • Associate Professor, Xiamen University (2012- )

Research Interests

  • Marine microbial ecology

  • Taxonomy and phylogeny of marine protoz

Selected Publications

  • Ping Sun*, Xin Huang, Ying Wang, Bangqin Huang*, Protistan-bacterial microbiota exhibit stronger species sorting and greater network connectivity offshore than nearshore across a coast-to-basin continuum, Msystems, 2021, 6(5), e00100-21.

  • Ping Sun*, Silu Zhang, Ying Wang, Bangqin Huang, Biogeographic role of the kuroshio current intrusion in the microzooplankton community in the boundary zone of the northern South China Sea, Microorganisms, 2021, 9, 1104.

  • Rong Gu, Ping Sun, Ying Wang, Fengling Yu, Nianzhi Jiao, Dapeng Xu*, Genetic diversity, community assembly, and shaping factors of benthic microbial eukaryotes in Dongshan Bay, southeast China, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020, 11, 592489.

  • Ping Sun*, Ying Wang, Edward Laws, Bangqin Huang, Water mass–driven spatial effects and environmental heterogeneity shape microeukaryote biogeography in a subtropical, hydrographically complex ocean system - A case study of ciliates, Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 706, 135753.

  • Jie Kong, Ying Wang, Alan Warren, Bangqin Huang, Ping Sun*, Diversity distribution and assembly mechanisms of planktonic and benthic microeukaryote

  • communities in intertidal zones of southeast Fujian, China, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019, 10, 2640.

  • Ping Sun*, Liying Huang, Dapeng Xu, Alan Warren, Bangqin Huang, Ying Wang, Lei Wang, Wupeng Xiao, Jie Kong, Integrated space-time dataset reveals high diversity and distinct community structure of ciliates in mesopelagic waters of the northern South China Sea, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019, 10, 2178.

  • Feipeng Wang, Yuyuan Xie, Wenxue Wu, Ping Sun, Lei Wang, Bangqin Huang*, Picoeukaryotic diversity and activity in the northwestern Pacific Ocean based on rDNA and rRNA high-throughput sequencing, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019, 9, 3259.

  • Dapeng Xu*, Ping Sun, Yizhe Zhang, Ran Li, Bangqin Huang, Nianzhi Jiao, Alan Warren, Lei Wang, Pigmented microbial eukaryotes fuel the deep sea carbon pool in the tropical western Pacific Ocean, Environmental Microbiology, 2018, 20(10), 3811-3824.

  • Ping Sun*, Liying Huang, Dapeng Xu, Bangqin Huang, Nengwang Chen, Alan Warren, Marked seasonality and high spatial variation in estuarine ciliates are driven by exchanges between the ‘abundant’ and ‘intermediate’biospheres, Scientific Reports, 2017, 7, 9494.

  • 10. Ping Sun, Saleh A. Al-Farraj, Alan Warren, Honggang Ma*, Morphology of four new solitary sessile peritrich ciliates from the Yellow Sea, China, with description of an unidentified species of Paravorticella (Ciliophora, Peritrichia), European Journal of Protistology, 2017, 57, 73–84.

  • Dapeng Xu*, Ran Li, Chen Hu, Ping Sun, Nianzhi Jiao, Alan Warren, Microbial eukaryote diversity and activity in the water column of the South China Sea based on DNA and RNA high throughput sequencing. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017, 8, 1121.

  • Ping Sun*, John Clamp, Dapeng Xu*, Bangqin Huang, Mann Kyoon Shin, An integrative approach to phylogeny reveals patterns of environmental distribution and novel evolutionary relationships in a major group of ciliates. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, 21695.

  • Feng Gao, Alan Warren, Qianqian Zhang, Jun Gong, Miao Miao, Ping Sun, Dapeng Xu, Jie Huang, Zhenzhen Yi*, Weibo Song*, The all-data-based evolutionary hypothesis of ciliated protists with a revised classification of the phylum Ciliophora (Eukaryota, Alveolata). Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, 24874.

Teaching Experience

  • Environmental Biology

  • Listening and Speaking Training for Professional English

  • Biochemistry Experiment

Research Funding

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018.01-2021.12, Reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships within the order Peritrichida based on multi-source data, PI;

  • Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, 2018.04-2020.04, Study of ciliate response to pollutants in estuarine sediments, PI;

  • The National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2016.07-2021.06,Multi-scale regulation of carbon storage processes in marine ecosystems and their response to global change, Participant;

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018.01-2021.12, Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of sessile peritrichs in Fujian coastal wetlands, PI;

  • The Ph.D. Programs Foundation of Ministry of. Education of China, 2014.01-2016.12,Multigene-based molecular phylogeny of the genus Vorticella and application of DNA barcoding for species identification, PI.

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, ,2014.01-2018.12, The structure of the planktonic ecosystem in the South China Sea and its regulatory mechanism on the efficiency of the biological pump, Participant.

Honors and Awards

  • 2017, Youth Science and Technology Award of China Protozoology

  • 2014 New Century Excellent Talent Support Program for Universities of Fujian Province.


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