A warm welcome to research associate Qicheng Bei who joins the CBIOMES Fuhrman Group at USC this month.
reporting by Helen Hill for CBIOMES
Qicheng is a microbiologist specializing in climate change impacts, ammonia-oxidizing, and nitrogen fixation, primarily within terrestrial ecosystems and with extensive expertise in metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and stable isotope labeling.
As a member of CBIOMES, Qicheng will explore the composition and function of marine microbial communities on both local and global scales in Jed’s lab, aiming to uncover the functional mechanisms driving marine microbiome assembly.
Qicheng holds a combined Master’s and Doctoral degree in Soil Science and Microbiology (2013) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Before coming to USC, he was based in Germany where he completed a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Germany followed, working at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research studying climate change impacts on the community structure and function of microbiomes.
Story image: Qicheng at the Golden Hall, Vienna – image courtesy Q. Bei.