周囡清，女，1993年9月生，安徽合肥人，副研究员。2014年7月与2017年7月于中国科学技术大学分别获得学士与硕士学位；2022年5月于美国特拉华大学获得博士学位。2022年6月-2025年5月于美国西北大学进行博士后研究。2025年9月起入职中国科学院南京土壤研究所。主要从事土壤环境微生物电子传递耦合碳代谢的机制研究。以第一作者在PNAS、Environment Science & Technology、Communications Biology和Applied Environmental Microbiology等期刊上发表论文8篇。

微生物电子传递；木质素微生物降解代谢

1. 2022 特拉华大学博士论文奖学金

2. 2021 特拉华大学Joanne Diaber Fellowship

3. 2014 中国科学技术大学优秀毕业生

1. Zhou N, Mendonca CM, Carroll AL, Pate S, Nieto-Domínguez M, Chen X, Zhang L, Teitel KP, Dekker NK, Elmore JR, Nikel PI, Waldbauer JR, Guss AM, Mangan NM, Aristilde L. (2025) Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase homologs as bifunctional gatekeepers of metabolic segregation in Pseudomonas putida. PNAS, 122 (47),  e2513479122.

2. Zhou N, Wilkes R, Chen X, Teitel K, Belgrave J, Beckham G, Werner A, Yu Y, Aristilde L. (2025) Quantitative decoding of pathway fluxes that couple carbon and energy metabolism in lignin carbon utilization. Communications Biology, 8(1):1310.

3. Wilkes RA#, Zhou N#, Aryal O, Teitel KP, Carroll A, Wilson RS, Kapoor A, Zhang L, Castaneda E, Guss A, Waldbauer J, Aristilde L. (2024) Mechanisms of polyethylene terephthalate pellet fragmentation into nanoplastics and assimilable carbons by wastewater Comamonas. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(43), 19338–19352. (#共同一作)

4. Zhou N, Kupper RJ, Catalano JG, Thompson A, Chan CS. (2022) Biological oxidation of Fe(II)-bearing smectite by microaerophilic iron-oxidizer Sideroxydans lithotrophicus using dual Mto and Cyc2 iron oxidation pathways. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(23), 17443-17453.

5. Zhou N, Keffer J, Polson S, Chan C. (2022) Unraveling Fe(II)-oxidizing mechanisms in a facultative Fe(II)-oxidizer, Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 via culturing, transcriptomics, and RT-qPCR. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(2), e01595-21

6. Zhou N, Luther GW, Chan CS. (2021) Ligand effects on biotic and abiotic Fe(II) oxidation by the microaerophile Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1. Environmental Science & Technology, 55:9362–9371.