Dr. Yu Zhang is a Professor, and currently serves as vice director of State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests lie in microbial risk identification and control in water environment. She currently focuses on deterring the transmission of antibiotic resistance in environment, and developing treatment technologies for wastewater and wastes. She received a State Natural Science Award in 2017 and a State Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2006, from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, respectively. She was invited to attend two workshops on “Developing priorities for WHO activities on Anti-microbial Resistance and the Environment” and “Antibiotic Use and Wastewater Residue” organized by WHO in 2017 and 2019, respectively. She is a member of WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance since 2020. She is the president of Committee of Microbial Ecology, Ecological Society of China, and an invited expert of the pharmaceutical industry in China.

Microbial risk identification and control in water environment

Yu Zhang, Jianping Xie, Miaomiao Liu, Zhe Tian, Zhili He, Joy D. van Nostrand, LirenRen, Jizhong Zhou, Min Yang*. Microbial community functional structure in response to antibiotics in pharmaceutical wastewater treatment systems. Water Research. 2013,47:6298-6308. Miaomiao Liu, Ran Ding, Yu Zhang*, Yingxin Gao, Zhe Tian, Tong Zhang, Min Yang. Abundance and distribution of Macrolide-Lincosamide-Streptogramin resistance genes in ananaerobic-aerobic system treating spiramycin production wastewater. Water Research, 2014, 63:33-41. Yu Zhang*, Zhe Tian, Miaomiao Liu, Zhou Jason Shi, Lauren Hale, Jizhong Zhou, Min Yang*. High Concentrations of the Antibiotic Spiramycin in Wastewater Lead to High Abundance of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Nitrifying Populations. Environmental Science and Technology, 2015, 49 (15), 9124–9132. Zhe Tian, Yu Zhang*, Yuyou Li,Yongzhi Chi , Min Yang. Rapid establishment of thermophilic anaerobic microbial community during the one-step startup of thermophilic anaerobic digestion from a mesophilic digester. Water Research, 2015,69:9-19. Zhe Tian, Yu Zhang*, Bo Yu, Min Yang. Changes of resistome, mobilome and potential hosts of antibiotic resistance genes during the transformation of anaerobic digestion from mesophilic to thermophilic. Water Research, 2016, 98: 261-269. Hongrui Chen, Hui Peng, Min Yang, Jianying Hu, Yu Zhang*. Detection, Occurrence, and Fate of Fluorotelomer Alcohols in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants. Environmental Science Technology, 2017, 51, 8953？8961. Qizhen Yi, Yu Zhang*, Yingxin Gao, Zhe Tian, Min Yang. Treatment of Antibiotic Production Wastewater Pretreated with Enhanced Hydrolysis: Simultaneous Reduction of COD and ARGs. Water Research, 2017, 110:211-217. Dev Raj Joshi , Yu Zhang*, Yinxin Gao, Yuan Liu, Min Yang. Biotransformation of nitrogen- and sulfur-containing pollutants during coking wastewater treatment: Correspondence of performance to microbial community functional structure. Water Research, 2017,121: 338-348. Ziming Han, Yu Zhang*, Wei An, Junying Lu, Jianying Hu, Min Yang*. Antibiotic resistomes in drinking water sources across a large geographical scale: Multiple drivers and co-occurrence with opportunistic bacterial pathogens. Water Research ,2020,183,116088. 世界卫生组织（WHO） 技术导则“Technical brief on water, sanitation, hygiene and wastewater management to prevent infections and reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance”领域责任编制专家，2020年