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1 Basic data | Name | YU, Ran | |||
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Title | Associate Professor | ||||
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Office | Rm.1402, Yifujianzu Building | ||||
Address | Email: yuran@seu.edu.cn Tel: 83794171 | ||||
Research Interests | My research areas are environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, and biotechnology with special interests in: ·Biological nutrient removal processes for wastewater treatment ·Nanotoxicity to the domestic wastewater treatment system ·Biotechnological processes and technologies for activated sludge reduction and soil remediation | ||||
2 Data for webpage | Resume | EDUCATION·University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, May 2007 ·Southeast University, P.R. China M.S., Environmental Engineering, April 2002 ·Southeast University, P.R. China B.S.E., Environmental Engineering, July 1999 WORKING EXPERIENCE·Southeast University, P.R. China : February 2011-current Associate Professor ·Columbia University, USA: April 2007- March 2010 Postdoctoral Research Scientist | |||
Teaching | Undergraduate courses: ·Introduction to Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development ·Sewerage Engineering ·Environmental Microbiology | ||||
Academic/teaching Projects | ·Toxicity of Nanoparticles to Representative Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria in Biological Wastewater Treatment Process (PI), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 01/01/2013-12/31/2015 ·Combined and Independent Toxicity Effects of representative Nanoparticles on Nitrosomonas europaea in Wastewater Treatment System (PI), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, 07/01/2012-06/30/2015 ·Mechanisms of Nanotoxicity Stress and Self-reparation in Metabolic Functions of Nitrite Bacteria in the Biological Nitrogen Removal System (PI), Chinese Ministry of Education, 01/01/2013-12/31/2015 ·A Combination design of Anaerobic-Anoxic/Nitrifying Two-sludge process and Phosphorus Induced Crystallization for Nutrient Removal from Domestic Wastewater (Co-PI), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 01/01/12013-12/31/2015 ·Decentralized Rural Sewage Treatment Technology Development and Project Demonstration in Zhu Shan Wan Area (Co-PI), National Science and Technology Major Project of China, 01/01/2012 - 12/31/2015 ·Typical Antibiotics Quantification and Analysis in Pharmaceutical cultivating residue (PI), Nanjing Research Institute of Environmental Sciences affiliated to Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, 10/01/2011-11/01/2012.11 ·CEIN: Predictive toxicology assessment and safe implementation of nano-technology in the environment, US National Science Foundation & US Environmental Protection Agency, 01/01/2008 - 12/31/2011 ·Molecular level through whole reactor level characterization of greenhouse nitrogen emission from wastewater treatment operations, US Water Environment Research Foundation, 04/01/2008-12/31/2013 ·Molecular mechanisms and metabolic modeling of N2O and NO emission fluxes from biological nitrogen removal reactors, US National Science Foundation, 01/01/2009/1-12/31/2013 ·Cost‐effective strategies to reduce nitrogen discharges into the Long Island Sound: Optimization of partial nitrification and external COD based denitrification at Stamford WPCA, US National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, 09/01/2007-08/31/2009 ·A metallomics based approach to bacterial physiology and toxicity, US Department of Energy (DE-AC02-06CH11357), 01/01/2007 - 12/31/2008 ·Seasonal Controls of Arsenic Transport Across the Groundwater-Surface Water Interface at a Closed Landfill Site，US Environmental Protection Agency ‘Science to Achieve Results (STAR)’ program, 01/01/2002–12/31/2007 ·Removal Technology and Mechanisms Study of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxin from Eutrophic Water, National Science foundation of China, 01/01/2000–12/31/2002 | ||||
Awards& Achievements | ·Nomination Award of 20th Southeast University Young Teaching Contest, March 2013 ·The University of Connecticut Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award, August 2005 ·American Society for Microbiology Student Travel Grant Award, June 2005 ·Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Jiangsu Province(02-050-4), 2004 | ||||
Publications (papers & academic book etc.) | ·Yu, R., Q. Wu, and X. Lu, 2012. Constructed wetland in a compact rural domestic wastewater treatment system for nutrient removal, Environmental Engineering Science, 29(8)，751-757 ·Yu, R., B. Lai, S. Vogt, and K. Chandran. 2011. Elemental profiling of single bacterial cells as a function of copper exposure and growth phase, PLoS ONE 6(6): 1-7 ·Yu, R., M. J. Kampschreur, M. C. M. van Loosdrecht and K. Chandran. 2010. Mechanisms and specific directionality of autotrophic nitrous oxide and nitric oxide generation during transient anoxia, Environmental Science & Technology, 44(4), 1313-1319 ·Yu, R., and K. Chandran. 2010. Strategies of Nitrosomonas europaea 19718 to counter low dissolved oxygen and high nitrite concentrations, BMC Microbiology, 10，1-11 ·Yu, R., P. Gan, A. A. MacKay, S. Zhang, and B. F. Smets. 2010. Presence, distribution and diversity of iron-oxidizing bacteria at a landfill leachate-impacted groundwater surface water interface, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 71(2):260-271 ·Yu, R., J. Graf, B. F. Smets. 2008. An improved cell recovery method for iron oxidizing bacterial (IOB) enrichments, Journal of Microbiological Methods, 72(3): 235-240 ·Fang, X., R. Yu, B. Li, P. Somasundaran, and K. Chandran. 2010. Stresses exerted by ZnO, CeO2 and anatase TiO2 nanoparticles on the Nitrosomonas europaea, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 348(2): 329-334 ·Ahn, J-H., R. Yu and K. Chandran. 2008. Distinctive microbial ecology and biokinetics of autotrophic ammonia and nitrite oxidation in a partial nitrification bioreactor, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 100(6): 1078-1087 ·Gan, P., R. Yu, B. F. Smets, and A. A. MacKay. 2006. Sampling methods to determine the spatial gradients and flux of arsenic at a groundwater seepage zone. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 25(6): 1487-1495 ·Shi,J., X. LU, R. Yu and W. Zhu. 2012. Nutrient removal and phosphorus recovery performances of a novel anaerobic-anoxic/nitrifying/induced crystallization process, Bioresource Technollgy, 121:183-189 ·Baytshtok, V., S. Kim, R. Yu, H. Park and K. Chandran. 2008. Molecular and biokinetic characterization of methylotrophic denitrification using nitrate and nitrite as terminal electron acceptors, Water Science and Technology, 58: 359-265 ·Baytshtok, V., H. Lu, H. Park, S. Kim, R. Yu, and K. Chandran. 2009. Impact of varying electron donors on the molecular microbial ecology and biokinetics of methylotrophic denitrifying bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 102: 1527-1536 | ||||
Patents | ·Kartik Chandran, Ran Yu. Systems and Methods for Evaluation Opeation Conditions in a Bioreactor Using Gene Expression and Abundance Tracking (PCT/US2008/078921) ·Kartik Chandran, Ran Yu, Joon-Ho Ahn. Systems and Methods for Achieving Partial Nitrification in a Biological Nitrogen Removal Reactor (PCT/US2008/078929) | ||||
The supervised postgraduate students (including their emails) | Postgraduate Student Advisees ·Since 2011: SU Mangman, MA shanshan ·Since 2012: CHEN Lianghui, LIU Meiting, BAO Wangbo ·Since 2013: WU Junkang, LI, Chuanyang, CHEN Ranran, ZHAO Juan |
