Xin You
Contact
Xin You
PhD Researcher
Department of Environmental Microbiology
Working Group Bioavailability
Helmholtz-Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 341 235-1371
xin.you@ufz.de
Research interest
My current research interest includes:
- The suitability of (marine) phages as biological tracers in porous media. With this aim, I use physical and biological quantification methods to reveal the changes of tracer phages during their transport in laboratory system and under field conditions.To a larger scale, I am also interested in identifying facilitating and retaining environmental factors for phage transport
- The mycosphere as an environmental factor for phage transport and phage-bacteria interactions. To this end, I am particularly interested in the physico-chemical and biological interactions of (pro)phage, bacteria and the fungal mycelia at microscale (by microfluidic device) to centimeter-scale.
11/2017
PhD Researcher at Working Group Bioavailability
Dept. of Environmental Microbiology
Topic: Phage transport and phage-mycosphere interactions
03-09
/2016
Hosted by Prof. Carlos E. P. Cerri, Department of Soil Science
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2017
Master of Science
Thesis "Atmospheric methane consumption by small-scale vertical distribution of microorganisms in soil"
Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart
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2013
Bachelor of Engineering
Thesis "Using virus-induced gene silencing and bioinformatics to select ripening-related genes in tomato"
College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering
China Agricultural University, Beijing
- Laboratory column transport experiments
- Surface physico-chemical interaction (DLVO theory)
- Tunable Resistive Pulse Sensing (TRPS)
- Colony / Plaque Forming Unit enumeration (CFU for bacteria, PFU for phages)
- Microfluidic device
- Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR, in collaboration with Dr. René Kallies at Microbial System Ecology UFZ )
- Flow cytometry (FCM, in collaboration with Flow Cytometry UFZ)
- Microscopic visulization
If you are interested in my research topic or one of those technical aspects above, please do not hesitate to write me (or Dr. Lukas Wick) an informal email expressing your interest and introducing yourself and we will see if there would be a suitable topic for you ( Regardless of the topics, all thesis offered by us can be written in either German or English).
Possible topics for 2019:
- Hitchhiking on chemotactic bacteria: Quantification of non-specific phage-bacteria interactions through an orientaition directed transport process
- Phages as tracers: Quantifying the transport of tracer phages in soil-filled columns by physical and biological methods
- etc. (upon request)
Completed thesis:
'Quantifying phage-transport through porous media by physical and biological methods' ( Bachelor thesis, 03/2018 - 09/2018, co-supervised with Dr. René Kallies)
- Language skills:
- Native in Mandarin
- Fluent in English and German
- Beginner in Portuguese