个人简介：
现任南方科技大学海洋高等研究院研究副教授，硕士生导师。2018年获得同济大学海洋生物学博士学位，2018-2021年在南方科技大学海洋科学与工程系开展博士后研究工作，2021年8月起分别担任南方科技大学海洋科学与工程系及海洋高等研究院研究助理教授，2025年7月起担任海洋高等研究院研究副教授。主持国家自然科学基金青年项目和面上项目各1项，并参与多项国家、省市级科研项目。期间共发表学术论文30篇，其中以第一作者、共同第一作者及通讯作者在Nature Communications, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta，Chemical geology，Science China Earth Sciences，Frontiers in Microbiology，Organic Geochemistry等杂志发表论文10篇。
研究方向：
主要研究方向包括：1）古菌和细菌四醚膜脂生物标志物 GDGTs在湖泊、土壤、海洋等环境中的分布特征、生物来源及调控机制；2）高分辨率质谱古菌脂质组学分析与应用，包括分析方法优化、脂质化合物结构及质谱数据库构建、高通量脂质质谱数据处理方法开发等；3）古菌膜脂化学分类指标及环境脂质组古生态重建应用。研究利用非靶向高分辨率质谱脂质组学、微生物培养、稳定同位素标记、分子生物学等多学科交叉研究手段，通过建立全面的古菌脂质组数据库，解析古菌膜脂组成的环境及基因调控过程，构建高分辨率古菌膜脂化学分类指标，推演环境改变导致的微生物生态演化规律。利用Lipid-SIP和DNA-SIP稳定同位素标记手段，探究未培养古菌及其他微生物的碳代谢能力、膜脂特征及代谢途径。
教育经历
2012.09 - 2018.09，同济大学，海洋生物学，博士
2009.09 - 2012.06，中国地质大学（武汉），地质学，硕士
2005.09 - 2009.06，西北师范大学，环境科学，学士
工作经历
2025.07 – 至今，研究副教授/硕士生导师，南方科技大学海洋高等研究院
2024.10 – 2025.07，研究助理教授/硕士生导师，南方科技大学海洋高等研究院
2021.08 – 2024.09，研究助理教授，南方科技大学海洋科学与工程系
2018.12 -2021.07，博士后，南方科技大学海洋科学与工程系
研究领域：研究领域为海洋生物地球化学，海洋微生物学和脂质组学。
科研项目：
国家自然科学基金面上项目，42372354，2024.01-2027.12，53万，在研，主持
国家自然科学基金青年项目，42003063，2021.01-2023.12，24万，已结题，主持
国家自然科学基金重大项目课题，32393974，2024.01-2028.12，374.75万元，在研，参与，课题骨干
广东省自然科学基金-粤深、粤穗、粤佛、粤莞联合基金重点项目，2021.10-2024.10，100万，在研，参与
深圳市科创委，深圳海洋地球古菌组学重点实验室，2019.03-2021.03，450万，已结题，参与
代表文章：
(#共同第一作者, *通讯作者)
2026
1. Zheng, F.#,*, W. Yao#, W. He#, W. Zhang, Y. Chen, H. Chen, Z. Zeng, X.-L. Liu, S. Ding, Y. Zheng, L. Huang, Y. Zhu and C. Zhang*. A comprehensive database for high-throughput identification of archaeal lipids using high-resolution mass spectrometry. Nature Communications, 2026, 17: 588.
2025
2. Liu, H., Z. Zhong, J. Xu, L. Qu, H. Liu, F. Zheng, C. Zhang and W. Xie*. Microbes Under Climate Refugia: Equable Subcommunity Rank Dynamics in Large-River Deltaic Estuaries. Ecology and Evolution, 2025, 15(8): e72014.
3. Wu, K.#, L. Zhou#, F. Zheng, L. Liu, M. Yang, J. Li, D. Z. Sousa* and L. Cheng*. Methanosuratincola petrocarbonis gen. nov., sp. nov., a methyl-reducing methanogen isolated from Shengli oil field, and proposal of Methanosuratincolaceae fam. nov., Methanosuratincolales ord. nov. and Methanosuratincolia classis nov. in the phylum Thermoproteota. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2025, 75(7): 006839.
4. Chen, H., F. Zheng, X. Feng, Z. Huang, W. Yang, C. Zhang, W. Du, K. S. Makarova, E.V. Koonin, Z. Zeng. Engineering Archaeal membrane-spanning lipid GDGT biosynthesis in bacteria: Implications for early life membrane transformations. mlife, 2025, 4(2): 193-204.
5. Chen, Y#., H. Yang#, F. Zheng#, R. Wu, C. Zhang, B. D. A. Naafs, R. D. Pancost, Z. Zeng*. Temperature-dependent modulation of the methylation degree of (tetra)ester-linked membrane-spanning lipids in an Acidobacterium, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2025, 401: 190-203.
6. 卢中一, 东秀珠, 申玉龙, 曾芝瑞, 荆新云, 周瑾洁, 邹大雨, 戴欣, 李之萌, 郑小伟, 祁磊, 宋宁, 黄奇洪, 李洁, 郑峰峰, 杨威, 李凌燕, 佘群新, 黄力, 赵国屏, 李猛*. 古菌功能演化与真核生物起源. 中国科学: 生命科学, 2025, 55(2), 297 – 312.
2024
7. Chen, Y*., J. Li, S. Chen, W. Xiao, F. Zheng, Z. Cheng and C. Zhang*. Potential influence of bacterial community structure on the distribution of brGDGTs in surface sediments from Yangtze River Estuary to East China Sea. Chemical Geology, 2024, 647: 121934.
8. Tang, X#., W. Zhang#, Y. Chen, P. Lu, T. Fan, F. Zheng, J. Wang, Y. Xia and Y. Zheng*. Distributions of bacterial branched tetraether lipids associated with bacterial communities in hummock and hollow soils from Southern Tibetan peatland. Chemical Geology, 2024, 660: 122170.
9. Wu, K#., L. Zhou#, G. Tahon, L. Liu, J. Li, J. Zhang, F. Zheng, C. Deng, W. Han, L. Bai, L. Fu, X. Dong, C. Zhang, T. J. G. Ettema, D. Z. Sousa* and L. Cheng*. Isolation of a methyl-reducing methanogen outside the Euryarchaeota. Nature, 2024, 632: 1124–1130.
2023
10. Yao, W., W. Zhang, W. He, W. Xiao*, F. Zheng*, Y. Chen, Y. Zhu, C. Zhang. Lipidomic chemotaxonomy aligned with phylogeny of Halobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023, 14:1297600.
11. Zeng, Z.#, W. Xiao#, F. Zheng*, Y. Chen, Y. Zhu, J. Tian, C. Zhang*. Enhanced production of highly methylated brGDGTs linked to anaerobic bacteria from sediments of the Mariana Trench. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023, 10:1233560.
12. Zhang, T.#, W. He #, Q. Liang*, F. Zheng*, X. Xiao, Z. Zeng, J. Zhou, W. Yao, H. Chen, Y. Zhu, J. Zhao, Y. Zheng, C. Zhang. Lipidomic diversity and proxy implications of archaea from cold seep sediments of the South China Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023, 14:1241958.
13. 李婧婧*, 郑峰峰; 徐 敏; 杨 欢. 长江中下游湖泊 GDGTs 分布及其环境意义. 地球科学, 2023, 48(11): 4335-4348.
14. Zhang, J., T. Li, Z. Hong, C. Ma, X. Fang, F. Zheng, W. Teng, C. Zhang and T. Si*. Biosynthesis of Hybrid Neutral Lipids with Archaeal and Eukaryotic Characteristics in Engineered Saccharomyces Cerevisiae. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62(4): e202214344.
15. Yang, W., H. Chen, Y. Chen, A. Chen, X. Feng, B. Zhao, F. Zheng, H. Fang, C. Zhang and Z. Zeng*. Thermophilic Archaeon Orchestrates Temporal Expression of GDGT Ring Synthases in Response to Temperature and Acidity Stress. Environmental Microbiology, 2023, 25(2): 575-587.
16. Li, Ti*, R. Comley, E. Zhang, Y. Zhou, X. Zhou, N. C. Munksgaard, Z. Zhu, J. Haig, F. Zheng and M. I. Bird. Paleo-Temperature Inferred from brGDGTs over the Past 18 cal Ka BP from Lake Barrine, Tropical Ne Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023, 310: 108125.
17. Xiao, W*#., Y. Xu#, C. Zhang*, J. Lin, W. Wu, X. Lü, J. Tan, X. Zhang, F. Zheng, X. Song, Y. Zhu, Y. Yang, H. Zhang, F. Wenzhöfer, A. A. Rowden and R. N. Glud. Disentangling Effects of Sea Surface Temperature and Water Depth on Hydroxylated Isoprenoid GDGTs: Insights from the Hadal Zone and Global Sediments. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, 50(15): e2023GL103109.
2022
18. Chen Y #, F. Zheng#, H. Yang #, W. Yang, R. Wu, X. Liu, H. Liang, H. Chen, H. Pei, C. Zhang, R.D. Pancost, Z. Zeng*. The production of diverse brGDGTs by an Acidobacterium providing a physiological basis for paleoclimate proxies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022, 337, 155–165.
2021
19. 李婧婧*, 杨 欢, 郑峰峰, 高 超, 雷丽丹. 湖泊水体微生物四醚膜脂化合物研究进展. 湖泊科学，2021, 33(5): 1334-1349.
2019
20. Zheng, F., Y. Chen, W. Xie, S. Chen, H. Liu, T.J Phelps, C. Zhang*. Diverse biological sources of core and intact polar isoprenoid GDGTs in terrace soils from southwest of China: Implications for their use as environmental proxies, Chemical Geology, 2019, 522: 108-120.
21. Zheng, F.#; Y. Chen#; X. Tang; J. Su; Y. Zhu; C. Zhang*. Changes in archaeal ether lipid composition in response to agriculture alternation in ancient and modern paddy soils, Organic Geochemistry, 2019, 138: 103912.
2018
22. 郑峰峰; 陈雨霏, 王永莉, 洪义国, 刘卫国, 张传伦* 季节温度变化及土壤pH差异对土壤bGDGTs温度指标的影响, 地球科学, 2018, (S1): 71-83.
23. Chen, Y.; F. Zheng; S. Chen; H. Liu; T. J Phelps; C. Zhang*; Branched GDGT production at elevated temperatures in anaerobic soil microcosm incubations, Organic Geochemistry, 2018, 117: 12-21.
2017
24. Li, F.; F. Zheng; Y. Wang; W. Liu; C. Zhang*; Thermoplasmatales and methanogens: Potential association with the Cren production in Chinese soils. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017, 8:1200
2016
25. Zheng, F.; C. Zhang*; Y. Chen; F. Li; C. Ma; Y. Pu; Y. Zhu; Y. Wang; W. Liu; Branched tetraether lipids in Chinese soils: Evaluating the fidelity of MBT/CBT proxies as paleoenvironmental proxies, Science China Earth Sciences, 2016, 59(7): 1353-1367.
26. Chen, Y.; C. Zhang*; C. Jia; F. Zheng; C. Zhu*; Tracking the signals of living archaea: A multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) method for detection of trace amounts of intact polar lipids from the natural environment, Organic Geochemistry, 2016, 97: 1-4.
27. Li, X.; F. Zheng; Y. Chen; W. Guo; T. Zhang; A. Hu; C. Yu; C. Zhang*; The spatial distribution of archaeal lipids in a mesoscale subtropical watershed, Southeast China, Science China Earth Sciences, 2016, 59 (7): 1317-1328.
28. Lu J.; H. Yang; F. Zheng; X. Dang; Y. Li; S. Xie; Contrasting distributions of bacterial branched tetraethers along a soil-river-lake transect in the arid region of Northwestern China, Geochemical Journal, 2016, 50 (3): 249-265.
2015
29. Yang, H.; F. Zheng; W. Xiao; S. Xie; Distinct distribution revealing multiple bacterial sources for 1-O-monoalkylglycerol ethers in terrestrial and lake environments. Science China Earth Sciences, 2015, 58 (6): 1005-1017.
2013
30. Zhang, C.*; J. Wang; J. A. Dodsworth; A. J. Williams; C. Zhu; KU. Hinrichs; F. Zheng; B. P. Hedlund; In situ production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in a great basin hot spring (USA). Frontiers in Microbiology, 2013, 4: 181.
