2003.09-2007.06: Huazhong Agricultural University, Bachelor. 

　　2007.09-2010.07: Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Master. 

　　2010.09-2015.01: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph. D. 

　　2015.03-present: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Professor. 

1. Li X#, Ding L#,*, Yuan H, Li X, Zhu Y. Identification of potential electrotrophic microbial community in paddy soils by enrichment of microbial electrolysis cell biocathodes. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2020, 87: 411-420. (co-first author)
2. Ding LJ, Cui HL, Nie SA, Long XE, Duan GL, Zhu YG*. Microbiomes inhabiting rice roots and rhizosphere. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2019, 95(5): fiz040.
3. Bao Q, Ding LJ*, Huang Y, Xiao K. Effect of rice straw and/or nitrogen fertiliser inputs on methanogenic archaeal and denitrifying communitiesin a typical rice paddy soil. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2019, 109, 375-386.
4. Xu JX, Li XM, Sun GX, Cui L, Ding LJ, He C, Li LG, Shi Q, Smets BF, Zhu YG*. Fate of labile organic carbon in paddy soil is regulated by microbial ferric iron reduction. Environmental Science & Technology, 2019, 53(15): 8533-8542.
5. Ding LJ, Su JQ*, Sun GX, Wu JS, Wei WX. Increased microbial functional diversity under long-term organic and integrated fertilization in a paddy soil. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2018, 102: 1969-1982.
6. Yuan HY, Ding LJ, Zama EF, Liu PP, Hozzein WN, Zhu YG. Biochar modulates methanogenesis through electron syntrophy of microorganisms with ethanol as a substrate. Environmental Science & Technology, 2018, 52(21): 12198-12207.
7. Ding LJ, Su JQ*, Li H, Zhu YG, Cao ZH. Bacterial succession along a long-term chronosequence of paddy soil in the Yangtze River Delta, China. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 2017, 104: 59-67.
8. Bao QL, Huang YZ, Wang FH, Nie SA, Nicol GW, Yao HY*, Ding LJ*. Effect of nitrogen fertilizer and/or rice straw amendment on methanogenic archaeal communities and methane production from a rice paddy soil. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2016, 100(13): 5989-5998.
9. Yuan HY, Ding LJ, Wang N, Chen SC, Deng Y, Li XM, Zhu YG*. Geographic distance and amorphous iron affect the abundance and distribution of Geobacteraceae in paddy soils in China. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2016, 16(12): 2657-2665.
10. Ding LJ, Su JQ, Xu HJ, Jia ZJ, Zhu YG*. Long-term nitrogen fertilization of paddy soil shifts iron-reducing microbial community revealed by RNA-13C-acetate probing coupled with pyrosequencing. The ISME Journal, 2015, 9(3): 721-734.
11. Su JQ#, Ding LJ#, Xue K, Yao HY, Quensen J, Bai SJ, Wei WX, Wu JS, Zhou JZ, Tiedje JM, Zhu YG*. Long-term balanced fertilization improves the soil microbial functional diversity in a phosphorus-limited paddy soil. Molecular Ecology, 2015, 24(1): 136-150. (co-first author)
12. Ding LJ, An XL, Li S, Zhang GL, Zhu YG*. Nitrogen loss through anaerobic ammonium oxidation coupled to iron reduction from paddy soils in a chronosequence. Environmental Science & Technology, 2014, 48(18): 10641-10647.
13. Ding LJ, Wu JS*, Xiao HA, Zhou P, Syers JK. Mobilisation of inorganic phosphorus induced by rice straw in aggregates of a highly weathered upland soil. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2012, 92(5): 1073-1079.
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    Ding LJ, Zhou XY, Zhu YG*. Microbiome and antibiotic resistome in household dust from Beijing, China. Environment International, 2020, 139: 105702.
15. Li XM, Ding LJ*, Li XM, Zhu YG. Abundance, diversity, and structure of Geobacteraceae community in paddy soil under long-term fertilization practices. Applied Soil Ecology, 2020, 153: 103577.