DENG Fangbo, Female, born in Dec 1991, native of Fuxin, Liaoning Province. Master's supervisor. Associate professor. Her research mainly focuses on soil microbial ecology and soil science. She is interested in the role of soil microbes in controlling soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, particularly soil-plant-microbe interactions in agricultural ecosystems. She has conducted research on the roles of soil microbial community structure and microbial necromass in key ecological processes such as soil carbon sequestration and nitrogen cycling. In the past five years, she has led six research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Program) and two subtasks of the National Key Research and Development Program of China. She has published more than 10 SCI papers in international journals, including Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Geoderma and Science of the Total Environment. She has received several academic awards, including the Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation Award at the 6th Young Scientist Forums of Earth Science, the First Prize for Graduate Student Presentations at the 6th Lishu Black Soil Forum, and the Second Prize at the 3rd Young Scientist Academic Forum of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was also honored with the "Outstanding Individual" title by the People's Government of Lishu County. In January 2025, she was awarded the “LüYe” Outstanding Young Scientist Program at the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was appointed as an associate professor. In the same year, she was funded by Liaoning Provincial Youth Science and Technology Talent Support Program. She has contributed to the publication of three monographs on conservation agriculture, serving as associate editor for two and as a contributor for one. She has also co-authored four enterprise standards.

2016.09–2022.01 Ph.D. in Microbiology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2018.09–2018.12 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany, Academic Visitor 2013.09–2016.06 M.S. in Microbiology, Liaoning University 2009.09–2013.06 B.S. in Biological Sciences, Shenyang Normal University

Feb 2025–Present Associate professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jan 2022–Jan 2025 Postdoctoral, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Soil microorganisms; Soil carbon and nitrogen cycle; Conservation agriculture

2025: The First Liaoning Provincial Young Science and Technology Talent Support Program 2023–2024: Awarded the title of “Outstanding Individual” by the People’s Government of Lishu County 2020: Second Prize, 3rd Young Scientist Academic Forum, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2019: Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation Award, 6th Young Scientist Forums of Earth Science

2025-2028：Lüye Outstanding Young Scientist Program, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Rhizosphere microbial recruitment mechanisms and their regulatory functions under conservation tillage. Leader 2024-2027：Subproject of the National Key Research and Development Program of China. Coordinated regulation and feedback mechanisms of aboveground cropping–belowground microbial diversity. Leader 2023–2028: Subproject of the National Key Research and Development Program of China. Microbial mechanisms and regulatory pathways of soil nitrogen retention and supply in degraded black soils. Leader 2023–2025: National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Program). Response and compensation regulation of soil nitrogen cycling microbial communities to nitrogen fertilizer reduction in the black soil region in Northeast China. Leader 2022–2026: Subproject of the National Agricultural Major Science and Technology Project. Reconstruction of microbial functions and soil fertility improvement strategies in degraded black soils. Participant 2023–2027: Special Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Microbial mechanisms of soil organic carbon formation and transformation in typical permafrost regions of China and their responses to warming. Participant

1、Fangbo Deng;Chao Liang*;Revisiting the quantitative contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon pool: Stoichiometric control by microbes and soil,Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022,165,108486 2、Fangbo Deng, Hongjun Wang, Hongtu Xie,Xuelian Bao, Hongbo He, Xudong Zhang, Chao Liang*; Low-disturbance farming regenerates healthy deep soil toward sustainable agriculture-Evidence from long-term no-tillage with stover mulching in Mollisols,Science of The Total Environment, 2022,825,153929 3、Fangbo Deng,Hongtu Xie,Tiantian Zheng,Yali Yang,Xuelian Bao,Hongbo He,Xudong Zhang,Chao Liang*. Dynamic responses of soil microbial communities to seasonal freeze-thaw cycles in a temperate agroecosystem, Science of the Total Environment,2024,950, 175228. 4、Shuhan Dong#, Fangbo Deng#,Feng Zhou,Sicong Ma,Zhenying Wang, Wanqi Wang, Wei Zhang*, Hongbo He,Xudong Zhang. Internal transformation of fertilizer-derived organic nitrogen fractions in an arable soil and the regulation of maize residue mulching. Geoderma, 2025,459,117385. 5、Tiantian Zheng,Hongtu Xie,Grant L. Thompson,Xuelian Bao,Fangbo Deng,En-Rong Yan,Xuhui Zhou,Chao Liang*. Shifts in microbial metabolic pathway for soil carbon accumulation along subtropical forest succession,Soil Biology and Biochemistry,2021,160,108335. 6、Weina Jia,Tiantian Zheng,Yu Zhao,Fangbo Deng,Yali Yang,Chao Liang*,Hongbo He*,Xudong Zhang. Nitrogen application influences the effect of bacteria on the belowground allocation of photosynthesized carbon under elevated CO2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry,2023,180,109021. 7、Jie Li*,Jiafa Luo,Stuart Lindsey,Shuai Wang,Fangbo Deng,Wenyu Wang,Changes in soil microbial communities in response to repeated application of nitrification inhibitors. Applied Soil Ecology,2023,182,104726. 8、Yuzhu Li,Xuelian Bao,Xuefeng Zhu,Fangbo Deng,Yali Yang,Yue Zhao,Hongtu Xie,Shixin Tang,Chengjun Ge,Chao Liang*. Parent material influences soil properties to shape bacterial community assembly processes,diversity,and enzyme-related functions. Science of the Total Environment,2024,927,172064. 9、Zhangmi He, Xuefeng Zhu, Feng Zhou, Mengtao Zhu, Xuelian Bao, Fangbo Deng, Hongbo He*, Xudong Zhang. How bacterial traits scale to soil organic matter pool buildup revealed by long-term maize straw mulching experiment, Agriculture,Ecosystems & Environment,2025,393, 109816. 10、Fangbo Deng, Xuelian Bao, Chao Liang, Hongtu Xie. A review of the freeze-thaw cycling effect on arable soil nitrogen and phosphorus leaching[J]. Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture, ,2020,29(1), 128-140. 11、Fangbo Deng, Shuzhe Liu, Wei Zhang, Xuefeng Zhu, Xuelian Bao, Zhiwen Chen, Hongbo He, Xudong Zhang. Effects of typical black soil acidification on major microbial groups[J]. Acta Microbiologica Sinica, 2025, 65(8): 3383-3396. 12、Hongtu Xie (Editor-in-Chief); Fangbo Deng (Associate Editor); et al. 2024. Fifteen Years of the “Lishu Model” of Conservation Tillage in Black Soil Regions. Beijing: China Agriculture Press. 13、Hongtu Xie (Editor-in-Chief); Fangbo Deng (Associate Editor); et al. 2023. Research on Conservation Tillage Technologies in Northeast China. Beijing: China Agriculture Press.