Prof. Dr. Yonghong Bi was born in 1974, Principal investigator of algal ecology, and director of the Sixth Research Center; The head of Xiangxi River ecological investigation Station, the key tributary of the Three Gorges Ecological and Environmental Monitoring System; The executive head of the Three Gorges Reservoir Ecosystem Monitoring Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the deputy secretary of Chinese Society for Phycology, the executive director of the Lake Branch of the Chinese Ocean and Limnology Society, the member of Biological Food Committee of the Chinese Fisheries Society, the member of the Ecological and Hydraulic Engineering Committee of the Chinese Water Conservancy Society, and the technical expert for Chinese patent examination of the National Intellectual Property Administration; Editorial board members of domestic and foreign journals such as Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, Journal of Lake Science, Chinese Journal of Ecology, Water biology & security, Frontiers, Water, Scientific Reports, Vegetas, etc.  

1994.09--1998.06   Huazhong Agricultural University    Bachelor's degree;  

1998.09--2001.06   Shanghai Ocean University           Master's degree;  

2001.09--2004.06   Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS       Doctor's degree.  

From 2009 to 2010, conducted collaborative research on the Yangtze Project (BMBF, 02WT1130) as a visiting scholar at the German Environmental Health Research Center.  

The main major are freshwater ecology, algal ecology, and water pollution bioremediation. More than 40 projects have been finished and published over 160 papers, including 70 SCI papers. Obtained 13 national authorized invention patents, published 1 monograph, and participated in 3 monographs. 

Research Interests： 

1. Responses of algal population and communities to the different disturbance and algal acclimation mechanisms to the disturbance   

2. Algal biodiversity  

3. Applied phycology and water blooms treatment technology  

Major Research Projects： 

1.Variation of water quality and phytoplankton communities in the Wudongde Reservoir and Baihetang Reservoir， 2022-2023 

2. Yangtze River Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ecological dynamic process of water bloom in the bays under multi-field coupling 2021-2024  

3.National Key R & D program, Algal bloom occurring mechanism and its key drivers in long-distance water delivery channels， 2021-2025 

4. National Key R & D program, Mining and creation the elements / pathway of toxic metal biosensing and transformation，2020-2024 

5. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Determining mechanism of phytoplankton cell size and its ecological effects 2020-2023 

6. The 13th Five-Year Plan National Water Pollution and Control Major Project, The causes and control technology of abnormal proliferation of algae and shellfish in the middle route of South-to-North water diversion project, 2017-2022 

7. Algal diversity in the middle route of South-to-North water diversion project, 2018-2019  

8. Water blooms monitoring in the Three Gorges Reservoir, every year 

Social Duties: 

Science and Technology Commissioner in Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Department;  

Technical adviser for the integrated rice-crayfish culture in Hubei Provincial Department of Agriculture   

Awards：  

Excellent teacher in Wuhan branch of CAS; 

Excellent Science and Technology Commissioner; 

Excellent Reviewer for Environmental Science; 

Excellent Editorial board member of Journal of lake sciences  

2023 

1.        Jing Qian, Nan Pu, Li Qian, Xiaobai Xue, Yonghong Bi* , Stefan Norraf.Identification of driving factors of algal growth in the South-to-North Water Diversion Project by Transformer-based deep learning. Water Biology and Security, 2023. 

2.        Chunmei Zhang, Feixia Zhu, Yuanzhu Wang, Yuxuan Zhu, Gaofei Song, Wujuan Mi, Yonghong Bi*. Assembly processes of eukaryotic plankton communities in the world's largest drinking water diversion project. Science of the Total Environment, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv. 2023.163665 

3.        Wang Y, Wang C, Zhang C, Liang J, Mi W,Song G, Zhu Y, Wang S, Shang Y and Bi Y*. (2023), Water quality variation in the middle route of South-to-North Water Diversion Project, China. Front. Environ. Sci. 11:945884. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.945884 

4.       Chunmei Zhang, Wujuan Mi, Yuanzhao Xu, Wenzong Zhou, Yonghong Bi*.Long-term integrated rice-crayfish culture disrupts the microbial communities in paddy soil. Aquaculture Reports,  2023, doi.org/10.1016/j.aqrep.2023.101515 

5.        Wei He, Siyuan Feng, Yonghong Bi*, Aili Jiang, Yuan Li, Wei Huang, Jian Zhang, Hui Xu, Chunsheng Liu. Influences of water level fluctuation on water exchange and nutrient distribution in a bay: Evidence from the Xiangxi Bay, Three Gorges Reservoir. Environmental Research 222 (2023) 115341.  

6.        Xiaolong Yang,Wei Dong,Lihua Liu,Yonghong Bi*,Wanyao Xu，Xun Wang. Uncovering the differential growth of Microcystis aeruginosa cultivated under nitrate and ammonium from a photophysiological perspective. ES&T Water, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsest water.2c00624 

7.        Shan Zhang, Yonghong Bi, Jindong Zhao, Meng Yao*. To the north: eDNA tracing of the seasonal and spatial dynamics of fish assemblages along the world’s largest water diversion project. Journal of Environmental Management, 331 (2023) 117217. 

8.        Yao Tao, Man He, Beibei Chen, Gang Ruan, Pingping Xu, Yixue Xia, Gaofei Song, Yonghong Bi, Bin Hu*.Evaluation of Cd2+ stress on Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 based on single-cell elemental accumulation and algal toxicological response. Aquatic Toxicology, doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox. 2023.106499 

2022 

9.       Chengrong Peng, Wenxuan Zou, Dunhai Li, Genbao Li, Yonghong Bi*. Distinct effects of sediment regulation on phytoplankton community assembly in the tributaries and mainstream of the Three Gorges Reservoir. Journal of Cleaner Production 368 (2022) 133082 

10.     Yuan Li, Lingchao Fang, Wang Yuanzhu, Wujuan Mi, Li Ji , Zhang Guixiang, Pingheng Yang, Zhongbing Chen, Yonghong Bi*. Anthropogenic activities accelerated the evolution of river trophic status. Ecological Indicators, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108584  

11.     Chunmei Zhang, Huirong L, Yinxin Zeng, Haitao Ding, Bin Wang, Yangjie Li, Zhongqiang Ji, Yonghong Bi*, and Wei Luo. Diversity and assembly processes of microbial eukaryotic communities in Fildes Peninsula Lakes (West Antarctica). Biogeosciences, 19, 4639–4654, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4639-2022 

12.     Fan, P.; Li, Y.; Deng, R.; Zhu, F.; Cheng, F.; Song, G.; Mi, W.; Bi, Y*. Mixotrophic Cultivation Optimization of Microalga Euglena pisciformis AEW501 for Paramylon Production. Mar. Drugs 2022, 20, 518. https://doi.org/10.3390/ md20080518 

13.     Wenwen Kong, Qijie Xu, Honghong Lyu, Jia Kong, Dongxuan Zhang, Boxiong Shen*, Yonghong Bi*. Sediment and residual feed from aquaculture water bodies threaten aquatic environmental ecosystem: interactions among algae, heavy metals, and nutrients. J Environ Manage. 2023 Jan 15;326(Pt B):116735. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116735. Epub 2022 Nov 16. 

14.     Zhu, Y., Mi,W., Tu, X., Song,G., Bi, Y*. Environmental Factors Drive Periphytic Algal Community Assembly in the Largest Long-DistanceWater Diversion Channel. Water 2022, 14, 914.https://doi.org/10.3390/w14060914 

15.     Ruan G., Mi W*., Yin X., Song G., Bi Y*. Molecular Responses Mechanism of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 to Cadmium Stress. Water 2022, 14, 4032. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14244032 

16.     Zhou B., Zhu K., Bi, Y*., Henkelmann B., Bernh？ft, S., Mi, W. *, Schramm, K.-W. Distribution Pattern of Dioxins in Sediment Cores from the Xiangxi River, a Tributary of Three Gorges Reservoir, China. Water 2023, 15, 57. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/w15010057 

17.     Qiu, C.; Wang,W.; Zhang, Y.; Zhou, G.-J*.; Bi, Y*. Response of Antioxidant Enzyme Activities of the Green Microalga Chlorococcum sp. AZHB to Cu²⁺ and Cd²⁺ Stress. Sustainability 2022, 14, 10320. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610320 

18.     Liu K. S., Li Y. T., Sun L. L., Hou, J. J. *, Liu X. X.,Wu Q., Bi Y. H*. Summer and Winter of prokaryotic community structure and their relationship with environmental factors in Xiangxi River and Shennong Creek in China. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 20(2): 1285-1300. 

19.     Rediat ABATE, Buce Hanoch Hetharua ,Vishal Patil, Daner Lin,Demeke Kifle, Junrong Liang, Changping Chen, Lin Sun .ShuhJi Kao,Yonghong Bi, Bangqin Huan, Yahui Gao*, Responses of phytoplankton and its satellite bacteria to exogenous ethanol. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-021-1224-5 

20.     Yang Xiaolong,Bi Yonghong,Ma Xiafei,Dong Wei,Wang Xing,Wang Shoubin*．Transcriptomic analysis dissects the regulatory strategy of toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa under differential nitrogen forms．Journal of Hazardous Materials，2022，428(6)：128276． 

21.     Jie Zhang, Xiaoman Wu, Qin Fang, Yong Hong Bi, Pin Nie, and Ming Xian Chang*. Grass Carp Reovirus Nonstructural Proteins Avoid Host Antiviral Immune Response by Targeting the RLR Signaling Pathway. The Journal of Immunology, 2022, doi:10.4049/jimmunol.2100723 

22.     Wei Zou, Guangwei Zhu*, Hai Xu, Mengyuan Zhu, Boqiang Qin, Yunlin Zhang, Yonghong Bi, Miao Liu, Tianhao Wu. Elucidating phytoplankton limiting factors in lakes and reservoirs of the Chinese Eastern Plains ecoregion. Journal of Environmental Management 318 (2022) 115542 

23.      Li Ji, Wenwen Li, Yuan Li, Qiusheng He, Yonghong Bi, Minghua Zhang, Guixiang Zhang, Xinming Wang. Spatial Distribution, Potential Sources, and Health Risk of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Surface Soils under Different Land-Use Covers of Shanxi Province, North China. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, x. https://doi.org/10.3390/xxxxx 

24.     Qian J*, Liu H, Qian L, Bauer J, Xue X,Yu G, He Q, Zhou Q, Bi Y and Norra S(2022), Water quality monitoring and assessment based on cruise monitoring, remote sensing, and deep learning: A case study of Qingcaosha Reservoir. Front. Environ. Sci. 10:979133. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.979133 

25.     WenxiaoTang,Man He, Beibei Chen, Gang Ruan, Yixue Xia, Pingping Xu, Gaofei Song, Yonghong Bi, BinHu*. Investigation of toxic effect of mercury on Microcystis aeruginosa: Correlation between intracellular mercury content at single cells level and algae physiological responses. 2022Science of The Total Environment 858(Pt 2):159894 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022. 159894 

2021 

26.    Zhigang Li, Gaofei Song, Yonghong Bi,* Wei Gao, Anen He, Yao Lu, Yawei Wang,* and Guibin Jiang. Occurrence and Distribution of Disinfection Byproducts in Domestic Wastewater Effluent, Tap Water, and Surface Water during the SARS-CoV？2 Pandemic in China. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, 55, 4103？4114 

27.    Yuan Li, Li Ji, Wujuan Mi, Shulian Xie, Yonghong Bi. Health risks from groundwater arsenic on residents in northern China coal-rich region. Science of the Total Environment 773 (2021) 145003. 

28.     Panpan Fan, Pingping Xu, Yuxuan Zhu, Xiaojie Tu, Gaofei Song, Yanxia Zuo, Yonghong Bi*. Addition of humic acid accelerates the growth of Euglena pisciformis AEW501 and the accumulation of lipids. Journal of Applied Phycology, 2021, doi.org/10.1007/s10811- 021-02623-9 

29.     Yuanzhu Wang, Yuan Li, Jiankui Liang , Yonghong Bi, Shulei Wang, Yuming Shang. Climatic Changes and Anthropogenic Activities Driving the Increase in Nitrogen: Evidence from the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. Water, 2021, 13, 2517, doi:10.3390/w13182517. 

30.     Li Ji*, Yuan Li, Guixiang Zhang and Yonghong Bi*. Anthropogenic Disturbances Have Contributed to Degradation of River Water Quality in Arid Areas Water, 2021,13, 3305. doi.org/10.3390/w13223305 

31.     Peng, C., Qin, H., Wang, K., Bi, Y*. Precipitation Mediates the Distribution but Not the Taxonomic Composition of Phytoplankton Communities in a Tributary of Three Gorges Reservoir. Plants 2021, 10, 1800. https://doi.org/10.3390/ plants10091800. 

32.    Yu P, You Q.M, Pang W.T, Cao Y, Bi Y.H*., Wang Q.X. Development of a Periphytic Diatom-Based Comprehensive Diatom Index for Assessing the Trophic Status of Lakes in the Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River, China. Water. 13(24):3570, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243570 

33.     Shun Huang, Chengrong Peng*, Zhicong Wang, Xiong Xiong, Yonghong Bi, Yangyang Liu, Dunhai Li. Spatiotemporal distribution of microplastics in surface water, biofilms, and sediments in the world's largest drinking water diversion project. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.14800.  

34.     Pengfei Qiu, Youxing Chen, Chenjie Li, Da Huo, Yonghong Bi, Jianbo Wang, Yunchuang LI, Renhui Li, Gongliang Yu*. Using molecular detection for the diversity and occurrence of cyanobacteria and 2-methylisoborneol-producing cyanobacteria in an eutrophicated reservoir in northern China. Environmental Pollution, 2021. 

35.     QuanYuan, ZhihuiTian, Weiwei Lv, Weiwei Huang, Xiaolin Sun, Weiguang Lv, Yonghong Bi, Guohui Shen, Wenzong Zhou*. Effects of common rice feld weeds on the survival, feeding rate and feeding behaviour of the crayfsh Procambarus clarkia. Scientific Reports, 2021. 

36.     Jin, H.*, Wang, Y., Zhao, PQ., Wang, LT., Zhang, S., Meng, D., Yang, Q., Cheong, LZ., Bi, YH., Fu, YJ. *The potential of producing flavonoids using cyanobacteria as a sustainable chassis. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2021. 

37.     Xiaolin Ma,Zhixiong Deng,David Blair,Yonghong Bi,Wei Hu,Mingbo Yin*，Cyanobacterial bloom associated with a complete turnover of a Daphnia population in a warm-temperate eutrophic lake in Eastern China. Freshwater Biology,  

38.     Yu P., You Q.M., Bi Y.H, KOCIOLEK J. P.& Wang Q.X*.. Three new Gomphonema Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyta, Gomphonemataceae) species from the lower reaches of Yangtze River, China. Fottea. 

39.     Yu P., Yang L., You Q.M., Bi Y.H. & Wang Q.X*. A new freshwater species Conticribra sinica (Thalassiosirales, Bacillariophyta) from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China. Fottea. 

2020 

40.    Yuan Li, Yonghong Bi*, Wujuan Mi, Shulian Xie, Li Ji. Land-use change caused by anthropogenic activities increase fluoride and arsenic pollution in groundwater and human health risk. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124337  

41.     Hou, Y. Y., Liu, K. S., LIU, X. X., HOU, J. J., LI, Y. T., BI, Y. H*.Temporal variation governs the proliferation of different taxa or guilds of ultraplanktonic fungi in a large reservoir. Applied ecology and environmental research,2020,18(6):7515-7533.     

42.    Yuntao Li,Kesai Liu,Yuexin Xu,Xixia Liu,Jianjun Hou,Yonghong Bi.Picoeukaryotic Diversity and Distribution in the Reservoir Ecological System. Turk. J. Fish.& Aquat. Sci. 20(4), 291-300 

43.    Yiwei Hu,Liang Shen, Xuanqi Ren, Yonghong Bi, Baowei Hu, Binliang Wang.Properties of CaO2 for H2O2 release and phosphate removal and its feasibility in controlling Microcystis blooms. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020, 27:35239-35248.