Si Tang

2016.09 - 2021.05 Kiel University (Germany), Microbiology and molecular biology, PhD

2012.09 - 2016.06 Jinan University, Hydrobiology, Master

2008.09 - 2012.06 Lanzhou University, Biotechnology, Bachelor

2025.08 - present Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Assistant professor

2022.01 - 2025.01 Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Postdoctoral Researcher   

I am interested in the adaptation and evolution of marine microbial populations in response to changing environments, especially focusing on the marine nitrogen cycle. Taking marine nitrogen-fixing microorganisms as the research target, I aim to understand the impact of human activities and global climate change on the marine nitrogen cycle from the perspective of evolutionary biology, providing new insights into the study of the imbalance of the marine nitrogen budget as well as the cycle of greenhouse gases, as well as providing research bases for the management and restoration of coastal eutrophication. In addition, by combining physiology and biochemistry with environmental adaptation strategies of photosynthetic microalgae, I aim to optimize the utilization mode of microalgal resources and offer services for microalgal resource development, carbon emission reduction, sewage treatment and other related fields.

[1]Si Tang; Xueyu Cheng; Yaqing Liu; Lu Liu; Dai Liu; Qi Yan; Jianming Zhu; Jin Zhou; Yuyang Jiang; Katrin Hammerschmidt; Zhonghua Cai; A unicellular cyanobacterium relies on sodium energetics to fix N2, Nature Communications, 2024,15:9716.

[2]Si Tang; Yaqing Liu; Jianming Zhu; Xueyu Cheng; Lu Liu; Katrin Hammerschmidt; Jin Zhou; Zhonghua Cai; Bet hedging in a unicellular microalga,Nature Communications, 2024,15(2063).

[3]Si Tang; Yuriy Pichugin; Katrin Hammerschimidt; An environmentally induced multicellular life cycle of a unicellular cyanobacterium, Current Biology, 2023,33:764-769.

Shui Mu Scholar, Tsinghua University (2024)