Xinming Xu
Postdoc
- Name
- X. Xu
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- x.xu@biology.leidenuniv.nl
Passionate and driven microbiologist specializing in bioinformatics. I got my Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark and focused on the quantitative ecology of Bacilli and associated soil microorganisms. Currently, my postdoctoral projects integrate laboratory and computational methods to construct plant-growth-promoting synthetic communities.
Publications
Postdoc
- Science
- Instituut Biologie Leiden
- IBL Microbial Sciences
- Xu X. & Kovács A.T. (2024), How to identify and quantify the members of the Bacillus genus?, Environmental Microbiology 26(2): e16593.
- Richter A., Blei F., Hu G., Schwitalla J.W., Lozano-Andrade C.N., Xie J., Jarmusch S.A., Wibowo M., Kjeldgaard B., Surabhi S., Xu X., Jautzus T., Phippen C.B.W., Tyc O., Arentshorst M., Wang Y., Garbeva P., Larsen T.O., Ram A.F.J., Hondel C.A.M. van den, Maróti G. & Kovács Á.T. (2024), Enhanced surface colonisation and competition during bacterial adaptation to a fungus, Nature Communications 15: 4486.
- Xu, X., Pioppi A., Kiesewalter H.T., Strube M.L. & Kovács Á.T. (2024), Disentangling the factors defining bacillus subtilis group species abundance in natural soils, Environmental Microbiology 26(9): e16693.
- Northen T.R., Kleiner M., Torres M., Kovács Á.T., Nicolaisen M.H., Krzyżanowska D.M., Sharma S., Lund G., Jelsbak L., Baars O., Kindtler N.L., Wippel K., Dinesen C., Ferrarezi J.A., Marian M., Pioppi A., Xu X., Andersen T., Geldner N., Schulze-Lefert P., Vorholt J.A. & Garrido-Oter R. (2024), Community standards and future opportunities for synthetic communities in plant–microbiota research, Nature Microbiology 9: 2774-2784.
- Song L., Nielsen L.J.D., Xu X., Mohite O.S., Nuhamunada M., Xu Z., Murphy R., Bodawatta K., Poulsen M., Abdulla M.H., Sonnenschein E.C., Weber T. & Kovács Á.T. (2024), Expanding the genome information on Bacillales for biosynthetic gene cluster discovery, Scientific Data 11: 1267.
- Sartor F., Xu X., Popp T., Dodd A.N., Kovács Á.T. & Merrow M. (2023), The circadian clock of the bacterium B. subtilis evokes properties of complex, multicellular circadian systems, Science Advances 9(31): eadh1308.
- Xu X., Nielsen L.J.D., Song L., Maróti G., Strube M.L. & Kovács Á.T. (2023), Enhanced specificity of Bacillus metataxonomics using a tuf-targeted amplicon sequencing approach, ISME Communications 3(1): 126.
- Lin Y., Xu X., Maróti G., Strube M.L. & Kovács Á.T. (2022), Adaptation and phenotypic diversification of Bacillus thuringiensis biofilm are accompanied by fuzzy spreader morphotypes, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 8(1): 27.