EDUCATION

2017, Ph.D., Biological engineering,Université Paris-Saclay

2013, Master, Process, Environment and biotechnology, Ecole Centrale Paris

2014, Master, Information and Communication Engineering, Beihang University

2011, Bachelor, Information and Computational Science, Beihang University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2025.03-present, Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University

2022.03-2025.02, Associate Researcher, Shenzhen University

2019.07-2022.02, Postdoc, Shenzhen University

2017.05-2019.04,Postdoc,Centre Européen de Biotechnologies et Bioéconomie, France

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Quantitative analysis ofmicrobial growth, metabolism, and interaction mechanismsthrough the integration ofmathematical modeling, deep learning, bioinformatics, and molecular biology techniques, which is applied to research areas, includingthe functional evolution of archaeal microcompartments,microbial ecology and elemental cycling,emerging pollutant degradation, andsynthetic microbial community design.

FUNDING

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Fund Project，32200099, Disentangling the driving mechanisms of carbon and sulfur cycles by the sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in mangrove sediments based on microbial metabolic interaction modeling,2023-2025, 300,000 RMB

PUBLICATIONS

Microbial metabolic interaction modeling

1.H. Du, J. Pan, D.Y. Zou, Y.H. Huang, Y. Liu*, M. Li*, Microbial active functional modules derived from network analysis and metabolic interactions decipher the complex microbiome assembly in mangrove sediments,Microbiome10 (2022) 224 .

2.H. Du, M. Li, Y. Liu*, Towards applications of genome-scale metabolic model-based approaches in designing synthetic microbial communities,Quant. Biol.11 (2023) 15-30.

3.A. La,H. Du, B. Taidi, P. Perré*, A predictive yeast model based on components, energy and electron carrier balances,Biotechnol. Bioeng.117 (2020) 2728-2740.

Microbial growth modeling

4.H. Du, P. Perré, I. Turner*, Modeling fungal growth with fractional transport models,Commun. Nonlinear. Sci. Numer. Simulat.84 (2020) 105157.

5.H. Du, P. Perré*, A novel lattice-based model for investigating three-dimensional fungal growth on solid media,Physica A541 (2020) 123536.

6.H. Du, T. Tran, P. Perré*, A 3-variable PDE model for predicting fungal growth derived from microscopic mechanisms,J. Theor. Biol.470 (2019) 90-100.

7.H. Du, M. Ayouz, P. Lv, P. Perré*, A lattice-based system for modeling fungal mycelial growth in complex environments,Physica A511 (2018) 191-206.

8.H. Du, P. Lv, M. Ayouz, A. Besserer, P. Perré*, Morphological characterization and quantification of the mycelial growth of the brown-rot fungus Postia placenta for modeling purposes,PLoS ONE11 (9) (2016) e0162469.

Microbial community network analysis

9.S.J. Pan^#,H. Du^#, R.Q. Zheng, C.J. Zhang, J. Pan, X.L. Yang, J.H. Li, W. Liu, H.K. Zhou, X.L. Yu, S.M. Mo, G.Q. Zhang, G.P. Zhao, W. Qu*, C.J. Jiang*, Y. Tian*, Z.L. He*, Y. Liu*, M. Li*, A holistic genome dataset of bacteria and archaea of mangrove sediments,GigaScience, accepted.

10.H. Du^#, J. Pan^#, C.J. Zhang, X.L. Yang, C. Wang, X.L. Lin, J.H. Li, W. Liu, H.K. Zhou, X.L. Yu, S.M. Mo, G.Q. Zhang, G.P. Zhao, W. Qu*, C.J. Jiang*, Y. Tian*, Z.L. He*, Y. Liu*, M. Li*. Analogous assembly mechanisms and functional guilds govern prokaryotic communities in mangrove ecosystems of China and South America,Microbial. Spectr.(2023) e01577-23.