Research Focus:

Environmental Microbiology in freshwater ecosystems

Education Experience：

1.Sep 2008 - Jun 2015: Pursued a combined master's and doctoral program in Botany at Lanzhou University.

2. Sep 2004  - Jun 2008: Pursued abachelor's degree inLanzhou University, majoring in Biotechnology.

Work Experience ：

Aug 2015 - present, Faculty members in School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University.

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate courses: Biochemistry, Biochemical experiments

Graduate courses: Microbial Ecology, Microbiology and its Applications

Research Projects:

1.Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Resources and Utilization (MOE) Open Research Project: "Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Bacterial Communities in Water and Sediment at Raohe River Estuary of Poyang Lake" (Project ID: PYH2015-13), 2016/01-2017/12, 25000 CNY, completed, project leader;

2.NSFC Regional Project "Research on Response Characteristics of Microorganisms in Freshwater Lake Sediment to Nitrogen and Phosphorus Heavy Metal Pollution: A Case Study of Poyang Lake" (Project ID: 31660027), 2017/01-2020/12, 380000 CNY, completed, project leader;

3.General Project of Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China "Distribution Dynamics and Influencing Factors of Attached and Free Floating Bacteria in Poyang Lake" (Project No.: 20202BAB203025), 2020/01-2023/06, 60000 CNY, completed, project leader;

4. NSFC General Program "Research on the Impact of Vegetation Succession on Wetland Soil Organic Carbon Storage and Its Microbial Mechanisms: A Case Study of Poyang Lake Wetland" (Project ID: 32371628), 2024/01-2027/12, 500000 CNY, under development, project leader.

Published Paper：

Tianhong Tu, Le Li, Wenkai Li, Shan Zhang, Hui Zhong, Gang Ge, Yantian Ma*, Lan Wu*. Different patterns of bacterioplankton in response to inorganic and organic phosphorus inputs in freshwater lakes - a microcosmic study, Water Research, 2024.10.15, 268 (2025): 122645

Yantian Ma, Pan Li, Hui Zhong, Mengjie He, Binhua Wang, Xiaozhen Mou, Lan Wu. The ecological diferentiation of particle-attached and free-living bacterial communities in a seasonal flooding lake- the Poyang Lake, Microbial Ecology, 2022.11.02, 86(2023): 795-809.

Yantian Ma, Runfa Cai, Hui Zhong, Lan Wu, Gang Ge. The home-feld advantage of litter decomposition in lake wetlands and the community characteristics of bacterial and eukaryotic decomposers. Plant and Soil, 2022.10.05, 483(2023): 109-130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05727-4.

Man Zhao#, Yan-Tian Ma#, Shi-Yao He, Mou Xiaozhen, Wu Lan. Dynamics of bacterioplankton community structure in response to seasonal hydrological disturbances in Poyang Lake, the largest wetland in China. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2020, (8):8, fiaa064.

Yantian Ma, Huang Shihao, Gan Zhiwei, Xiong Yong, Cai Runfa, Liu Yajun, Wu Lan, and Ge Gang. The succession of bacterial and fungal communities during decomposition of two hygrophytes in a freshwater lake wetland. Ecosphere, 2020, 11(10): e03242.