Research Interests

Microbial ecology

Arbuscular mycorrhiza and hyphal-microbe interactions

Mycorrhizal hyphosphere transcriptomics

Ph.D. Microbial ecology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2023

Visiting Ph.D. Microbial ecology, Agroscope, Switzerland, 2023

M.Sc. Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, China, 2016

B.Sc., Biotechnology, Central South University, China, 2013

Changfeng Zhang, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Bethany K. Dodds, Thi Bich Nguyen, Jelle Spooren, Alain Held, Marco R. Cosme, Roeland L. Berendsen*. A tripartite bacterial-fungal-plant symbiosis in the mycorrhiza-shaped microbiome drives plant growth and mycorrhization. Microbiome. 12, 13 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01726-4

Video Byte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKYoaMoCusU

Changfeng Zhang, Simone de Pasquale, Kyle Hartman, Claire E. Stanley, Roeland L. Berendsen & Marcel G. A. van der Heijden*. The microbial contribution to litter decomposition and plant growth. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2023; 1-15. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.13205

Annie Lebreton*, John V. Ramana, Changfeng Zhang, Yiming Meng. Multiple facets of cutting-edge mycorrhizal research, 11th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 11), Beijing, China, August 2022. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18825

Changfeng Zhang, Mengjie Ai, Lili Zhao, Hongyu Liu, Liyan Yu, Yuqin Zhang*. Microlunatus nigridraconis sp. nov. a novel actinobacterial member from soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2016, 66: 3614-3618.

Changfeng Zhang, Mengjie Ai, Juxian Wang, Shaowei Liu, Lili Zhao, Jing Su, Chenghang Sun, Liyan Yu, Yuqin Zhang*. Herbihabitans rhizosphaerae gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Pseudonocardiaceae isolated from the rhizosphere soil of the herb Limonium sinense (Girard). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2016, 66: 4156-4161.

Zhilian Gong, Changfeng Zhang, Rong Jin, Yuqin Zhang*. Steroidobacter flavus sp. nov., a microcystin-degrading Gammaproteobacterium isolated from soil. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2016) 109:1073–1079