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Hongchen Jiang is affiliated with the China University of Geosciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with substantial contributions in related subfields including ecology, molecular biology, environmental chemistry, oceanography, and condensed matter physics.

The scientist has published extensively in areas such as microbial community ecology and physiology, methane hydrates and related phenomena, genomics and phylogenetic studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, as well as microbial fuel cells and bioremediation.

Hongchen Jiang has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jian Yang
  • Wen-Jun Li
  • Hailiang Dong
  • Geng Wu
  • Ming-Xian Han

The scientist's work has been published in various venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Earth Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microorganisms

Notable recent papers by Hongchen Jiang include:

  • A critical review of mineral-microbe interaction and co-evolution: mechanisms and applications, 2022, National Science Review
  • Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Potential utilization of terrestrially derived dissolved organic matter by aquatic microbial communities in saline lakes, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Brockarchaeota, a novel archaeal phylum with unique and versatile carbon cycling pathways, 2021, Nature Communications

In addition to journal articles, Hongchen Jiang has contributed to book publications. One such title is Ecological Distribution, Functional Diversity, and the Biogeochemical Cycle of Microorganisms in Karst, published in 2023 by Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • Microbial Diversity in Water and Sediment of Lake Chaka, an Athalassohaline Lake in Northwestern China

    Hongchen Jiang;Hailiang Dong;Gengxin Zhang;Bingsong Yu

  • A critical review of mineral–microbe interaction and co-evolution: mechanisms and applications

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  • Microbial response to salinity change in Lake Chaka, a hypersaline lake on Tibetan plateau

    Hongchen Jiang;Hailiang Dong;Bingsong Yu;Xinqi Liu

  • Salinity shapes microbial diversity and community structure in surface sediments of the Qinghai-Tibetan Lakes.

    Jian Yang;Li’an Ma;Hongchen Jiang;Geng Wu

  • A Comprehensive Census of Microbial Diversity in Hot Springs of Tengchong, Yunnan Province China Using 16S rRNA Gene Pyrosequencing

    Weiguo Hou;Shang Wang;Hailiang Dong;Hailiang Dong;Hongchen Jiang

  • Microbial dolomite precipitation using sulfate reducing and halophilic bacteria: Results from Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau, NW China

    Shicai Deng;Hailiang Dong;Hailiang Dong;Guo Lv;Hongchen Jiang

  • Control of temperature on microbial community structure in hot springs of the Tibetan Plateau.

    Shang Wang;Weiguo Hou;Hailiang Dong;Hailiang Dong;Hongchen Jiang

  • Microbial diversity in sediments of saline Qinghai Lake, China: linking geochemical controls to microbial ecology.

    Hailiang Dong;Gengxin Zhang;Hongchen Jiang;Bingsong Yu

  • Bacterial and archaeal diversities in Yunnan and Tibetan hot springs, China.

    Zhao-Qi Song;Zhao-Qi Song;Feng-Ping Wang;Xiao-Yang Zhi;Jin-Quan Chen;Jin-Quan Chen

  • Endolithic cyanobacteria in soil gypsum : Occurrences in Atacama (Chile), Mojave (United States), and Al-Jafr Basin (Jordan) Deserts

    Hailiang Dong;Jason A. Rech;Hongchen Jiang;Henry Sun

  • Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria

    Jian Yu Jiao;Li Fu;Zheng Shuang Hua;Lan Liu

  • Insights into ecological role of a new deltaproteobacterial order Candidatus Acidulodesulfobacterales by metagenomics and metatranscriptomics

    Sha Tan;Jun Liu;Jun Liu;Yun Fang;Brian P. Hedlund

  • Potential utilization of terrestrially derived dissolved organic matter by aquatic microbial communities in saline lakes

    Jian Yang;Hongchen Jiang;Hongchen Jiang;Wen Liu;Liuqin Huang

  • Archaeal and bacterial diversity in hot springs on the Tibetan Plateau, China.

    Qiuyuan Huang;Christina Z. Dong;Raymond M. Dong;Hongchen Jiang

  • RNA-based investigation of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in hot springs of Yunnan Province, China

    Hongchen Jiang;Qiuyuan Huang;Hailiang Dong;Hailiang Dong;Peng Wang

  • Effect of microbially mediated iron mineral transformation on temporal variation of arsenic in the Pleistocene aquifers of the central Yangtze River basin

    Yamin Deng;Tianliang Zheng;Yanxin Wang;Lun Liu

  • Diversity and Abundance of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in Qinghai Lake, Northwestern China

    Hongchen Jiang;Hailiang Dong;Bingsong Yu;Guo Lv

  • Dominance of putative marine benthic Archaea in Qinghai Lake, north‐western China

    Hongchen Jiang;Hailiang Dong;Bingsong Yu;Qi Ye

  • Water depth affecting thaumarchaeol production in Lake Qinghai, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau: Implications for paleo lake levels and paleoclimate

    Huanye Wang;Hailiang Dong;Hailiang Dong;Chuanlun L. Zhang;Chuanlun L. Zhang;Hongchen Jiang

  • A comprehensive census of lake microbial diversity on a global scale

    Jian Yang;Hongchen Jiang;Hailiang Dong;Hailiang Dong;Yongqin Liu

  • Archaeal and bacterial diversity in acidic to circumneutral hot springs in the Philippines.

    Qiuyuan Huang;Hongchen Jiang;Brandon R. Briggs;Shang Wang

  • Microbial Diversity in Sediments of Saline Qinghia Lake, China:Linking Geochemical Controls to Microbial Ecoloby

    Hailiang Dong;Gengxin Zhang;Hongchen Jiang;Bingsong Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Hailiang Dong
Hailiang Dong China University of Geosciences
Wen-Jun Li
Wen-Jun Li Sun Yat-sen University
Chuanlun L. Zhang
Chuanlun L. Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
Weiguo Liu
Weiguo Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanxin Wang
Yanxin Wang China University of Geosciences
Dilfuza Egamberdieva
Dilfuza Egamberdieva Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Guanzhou Qiu
Guanzhou Qiu Central South University
Jun S. Liu
Jun S. Liu Harvard University
Wen-Sheng Shu
Wen-Sheng Shu South China Normal University
Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University

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