Mengyan Li

2018 CAPEES Founding President Best Paper Award ,

2014 2nd Place for the 5th Annual Geosyntec™ Student Paper Competition,

2014 Honor Award for the Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science™ Competition in the category of University Research by AAEES,

2014 Student Paper Winner for the 9th International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds,

2013 2nd Place for the 4th Annual Geosyntec™ Student Paper Competition,

2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Thesis of Nankai University ,

2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Student of Nankai University,

Zhiming Zhang, Linlin Wang, Yatong Ji, Runjuan Cao, Jiaheng Zhou, Mengyan Li, Liang Zhu, Xiangyang Xu. 2023. “Understanding the N-acylated homoserine lactones(AHLs)-based quorum sensing for the stability of aerobic granular sludge in the aspect of substrate hydrolysis enhancement.” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 858.

Jingjing Zheng, Yutong Han, Lecheng Wei, Mengyan Li, Liang Zhu. 2023. “Sludge-derived biopolymers for in-situ synthesis of magnetic ALE-Fe-Zr composites for phosphate removal.” Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 456.

Cheng Dong, Fei Li, Yun Sun, Dongling Long, Chunzhao Chen, Mengyan Li, Tao Wei, Rui P. Martins, Tianlan Chen, Pui In Mak. 2023. “A syndromic diagnostic assay on a macrochannel-to-digital microfluidic platform for automatic identification of multiple respiratory pathogens.” Lab on a Chip.

Yongbin Li, Rui Yang, Max M. Häggblom, Mengyan Li, Lifang Guo, Baoqin Li, Max Kolton, Zhiguo Cao, Mohsen Solemani, Zheng Chen, Zhimin Xu, Wenlong Gao, Bei Yan, Weimin Sun. 2022. “Characterization of diazotrophic root endophytes in Chinese silvergrass (Miscanthus sinensis).” Microbiome, vol. 10, no. 1.

Yutong Han, Mengyan Li, Jingjing Zheng, Lecheng Wei, Liang Zhu. 2022. “Green conversion of excess sludge to N-Ca self-doping sustainable carbon quantum dots with remarkable fluorescence enhancement and residual heavy metal reduction.” Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, vol. 10, no. 6.

Kuanliang Feng, Zihao Zhao, Mengyan Li, Luling Tian, Tong An, Jiawei Zhang, Xiangyang Xu, Liang Zhu. 2022. “Novel Intelligent Control Framework for WWTP Optimization to Achieve Stable and Sustainable Operation.” ACS ES and T Engineering, vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 2086-2094.

Daiyong Deng, Dung Ngoc Pham, Mengyan Li. 2022. “Emerging investigator series: environment-specific auxiliary substrates tailored for effective cometabolic bioremediation of 1,4-dioxane.” Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 2521-2530.

Yajie Zhang, Ye Zhang, Lecheng Wei, Mengyan Li, Weitang Zhu, Liang Zhu. 2022. “Spatiotemporal correlations between water quality and microbial community of typical inflow river into Taihu Lake, China.” Environmental Science and Pollution Research, vol. 29, no. 42, pp. 63722-63734.

Chen Wu, Qi Wang, Hao Chen, Mengyan Li. 2022. “Rapid quantitative analysis and suspect screening of per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFASs) in aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs) and municipal wastewater samples by Nano-ESI-HRMS.” Water Research, vol. 219.

Mengyan Li, Mark J. Krzmarzick, Catherine A. Peters. 2022. “AEESP Spotlight: Mid 2022.” Environmental Engineering Science, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 584-585.

Mengyan Li. 2022. “Serratia spp. are responsible for nitrogen fixation fueled by As(III) oxidation, a novel biogeochemical process identified in mine tailings.” Environmental Science and Technology.

Na Liu, Chen Wu, Guifen Lyu, Mengyan Li. 2021. “Efficient adsorptive removal of short-chain perfluoroalkyl acids using reed straw-derived biochar (RESCA).” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 798.

Mengyan Li. 2021. “Composite biologically active filter (BAF) with zeolite, granular activated carbon, and suspended biological carrier for treating algae-laden raw water.” Journal of Water Process Engineering .

Taixing Han, Jingjing Zheng, Yutong Han, Xiangyang Xu, Mengyan Li, Cory Schwarz, Liang Zhu. 2021. “Comprehensive insights into core microbial assemblages in activated sludge exposed to textile-dyeing wastewater stress.” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 791.

Mengyan Li. 2021. “Microplastics as hubs enriching antibiotic-resistant and pathogenic bacteria in municipal activated sludge.” Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters.

Peng Wang, Fei Li, Wenmin Wang, Ruofan Wang, Yadong Yang, Tingchen Cui, Na Liu, Mengyan Li. 2021. “Cometabolic degradation of 1,4-dioxane by a tetrahydrofuran-growing Arthrobacter sp. WN18.” Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, vol. 217.

Fei Li, Daiyong Deng, Lingke Zeng, Stewart Abrams, Mengyan Li. 2021. “Sequential anaerobic and aerobic bioaugmentation for commingled groundwater contamination of trichloroethene and 1,4-dioxane.” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 774.

Shiyuan Fu, Xinyu Zhao, Zhou Zhou, Mengyan Li, Liang Zhu. 2021. “Effective removal of odor substances using intimately coupled photocatalysis and biodegradation system prepared with the silane coupling agent (SCA)-enhanced TiO2 coating method.” Water Research, vol. 188.

Daiyong Deng, Dung Ngoc Pham, Fei Li, Mengyan Li. 2020. “Discovery of an inducible toluene monooxygenase that cooxidizes 1,4-dioxane and 1,1-dichloroethylene in propanotrophic azoarcus sp. strain DD4.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 86, no. 17.

Fei Li, Daiyong Deng, Mengyan Li. 2020. “Distinct catalytic behaviors between two 1,4-dioxane-degrading monooxygenases: Kinetics, inhibition, and substrate range.” Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 1898-1908.

Biplab Sarkar, Zain Siddiqui, Peter K. Nguyen, Namita Dube, Wanyi Fu, Steven Park, Shivani Jaisinghani, Reshma Paul, Stephen D. Kozuch, Daiyong Deng, Patricia Iglesias-Montoro, Mengyan Li, David Sabatino, David S. Perlin, Wen Zhang, Jagannath Mondal, Vivek A. Kumar. 2019. “Membrane-Disrupting Nanofibrous Peptide Hydrogels.” ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 4657-4670.

Daiyong Deng, Fei Li, Lei Ye, Mengyan Li. 2019. “Complete genome sequence of Azoarcus sp. Strain DD4, a Gram-negative propanotroph that degrades 1,4-dioxane and 1,1-dichloroethylene.” Microbiology Resource Announcements, vol. 8, no. 33.

Linwei Wu, Daliang Ning, Bing Zhang, Yong Li, Ping Zhang, Xiaoyu Shan, Qiuting Zhang, Mathew Brown, Zhenxin Li, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Fangqiong Ling, Naijia Xiao, Ya Zhang, Julia Vierheilig, George F. Wells, Yunfeng Yang, Ye Deng, Qichao Tu, Aijie Wang, Tong Zhang, Zhili He, Jurg Keller, Per H. Nielsen, Pedro J.J. Alvarez, Craig S. Criddle, Michael Wagner, James M. Tiedje, Qiang He, Thomas P. Curtis, David A. Stahl, Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, Bruce E. Rittmann, Xianghua Wen, Jizhong Zhou, Dany Acevedo, Miriam Agullo-Barcelo, Gary L. Andersen, Juliana Calabria de Araujo, Kevin Boehnke, Philip Bond, Charles B. Bott, Patricia Bovio, Rebecca K. Brewster, Faizal Bux, Angela Cabezas, Léa Cabrol, Si Chen, Claudia Etchebehere, Amanda Ford, Dominic Frigon, Janeth Sanabria Gómez, James S. Griffin, April Z. Gu, Moshe Habagil, Lauren Hale, Steven D. Hardeman, Marc Harmon, Harald Horn, Zhiqiang Hu, Shameem Jauffur, David R. Johnson, Alexander Keucken, Sheena Kumari, Cintia Dutra Leal, Laura A. Lebrun, Jangho Lee, Minjoo Lee, Zarraz M.P. Lee, Mengyan Li, Xu Li, Yu Liu, Richard G. Luthy, Leda C. Mendonça-Hagler, Francisca Gleire de Menezes, Arthur J. Meyers, Amin Mohebbi, Adrian Oehmen, Andrew Palmer, Prathap Parameswaran, Joonhong Park, Deborah Patsch, Valeria Reginatto, Francis L. de los Reyes, Adalberto Noyola, Simona Rossetti, Jatinder Sidhu, William T. Sloan, Kylie Smith, Oscarina Viana de Sousa, Kyle Stephens, Renmao Tian, Nicholas B. Tooker, Daniel De los Cobos Vasconcelos, Steve Wakelin, Bei Wang, Joseph E. Weaver, Stephanie West, Paul Wilmes, Sung Geun Woo, Jer Horng Wu. 2019. “Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants.” Nature Microbiology, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 1183-1195.

Ya He, Jacques Mathieu, Marcio LB Silva, Mengyan Li, Pedro JJ Alvarez. 2018. “1, 4-Dioxane-degrading consortia can be enriched from uncontaminated soils: prevalence of Mycobacterium and soluble di-iron monooxygenase genes.” Microbial biotechnology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 189--198.

Mengyan Li, Yu Yang, Ya He, Jacques Mathieu, Cong Yu, Qilin Li, Pedro JJ Alvarez. 2018. “Detection and cell sorting of Pseudonocardia species by fluorescence in situ hybridization and flow cytometry using 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes.” Applied microbiology and biotechnology, pp. 1--12.

Shuangyi Zhang, Sophie Courtois, Stephen Gitungo, Robert F Raczko, John E Dyksen, Mengyan Li, Lisa B. Axe. 2018. “Microbial community analysis in biologically active filters exhibiting efficient removal of emerging contaminants and impact of operational conditions.” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 640, pp. 1455--1464.

Shuangyi Zhang, Sophie Courtois, Stephen Gitungo, Robert F. Raczko, John E. Dyksen, Mengyan Li, Lisa B. Axe. 2018. “Microbial community analysis in biologically active filters exhibiting efficient removal of emerging contaminants and impact of operational conditions.” Science of the Total Environment, vol. 640-641, pp. 1455-1464.

Daiyong Deng, Fei Li, Chen Wu, Mengyan Li. 2018. “Synchronic Biotransformation of 1,4-Dioxane and 1,1-Dichloroethylene by a Gram-Negative Propanotroph Azoarcus sp. DD4.” Environmental Science and Technology Letters, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 526-532.

Daiyong Deng, Fei Li, Mengyan Li. 2017. “A Novel Propane Monooxygenase Initiating Degradation of 1, 4-Dioxane by Mycobacterium dioxanotrophicus PH-06.” Environmental Science \& Technology Letters.

Mengyan Li, Yuanyuan Liu, Ya He, Jacques Mathieu, James Hatton, William DiGuiseppi, Pedro JJ Alvarez. 2017. “Hindrance of 1, 4-dioxane biodegradation in microcosms biostimulated with inducing or non-inducing auxiliary substrates.” Water research, vol. 112, pp. 217--225.

Na Liu, Haijun Li, Mengyan Li, Longzhen Ding, Chih-Huang Weng, Cheng-Di Dong. 2017. “Oxygen exposure effects on the dechlorinating activities of a trichloroethene-dechlorination microbial consortium.” Bioresource technology, vol. 240, pp. 98--105.

Ya He, Kangfei Wei, Kaiwei Si, Jacques Mathieu, Mengyan Li, Pedro JJ Alvarez. 2017. “Whole-genome sequence of the 1, 4-dioxane-degrading bacterium Mycobacterium dioxanotrophicus PH-06.” Genome announcements, vol. 5, no. 35, pp. e00625--17.

Pingfeng Yu, Jacques Mathieu, Mengyan Li, Zhaoyi Dai, Pedro JJ Alvarez. 2016. “Isolation of polyvalent bacteriophages by sequential multiple-host approaches.” Applied and environmental microbiology, vol. 82, no. 3, pp. 808--815.

Xiangyang Xu, Junjie Shao, Mengyan Li, Kaituo Gao, Jie Jin, Liang Zhu. 2016. “Reductive Transformation of p-chloronitrobenzene in the upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor coupled with microbial electrolysis cell: performance and microbial community.” Bioresource technology, vol. 218, pp. 1037--1045.

Guangming Zeng, Yuanyuan Liu, Lin Tang, Guide Yang, Ya Pang, Yi Zhang, Yaoyu Zhou, Zhen Li, Mengyan Li, Mingyong Lai, Xiaoxiao He, Yibin He. 2015. “Enhancement of Cd(II) adsorption by polyacrylic acid modified magnetic mesoporous carbon.” Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 259, pp. 153 - 160.

Na Liu, Yue-e Shi, Mengyan Li, Ting-di Zhang, Song Gao. 2015. “Simultaneous determination of four trace estrogens in feces, leachate, tap and groundwater using solid–liquid extraction/auto solid-phase extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection.” Journal of Separation Science, vol. 38, no. 20, pp. 3494--3501.

Mengyan Li, E. Tess Van Orden, David J. DeVries, Zhong Xiong, Rob Hinchee, Pedro J. Alvarez. 2015. “Bench-scale biodegradation tests to assess natural attenuation potential of 1,4-dioxane at three sites in California.” Biodegradation, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 39--50.

Yu Yang, Mengyan Li, Camila Michels, Hugo Moreira-Soares, Pedro J.J. Alvarez. 2014. “Differential sensitivity of nitrifying bacteria to silver nanoparticles in activated sludge.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2234--2239.

Pedro Alvarez, Mengyan Li, Jacques Mathieu. 2014. “FINAL REPORT--PHASE I.” .

Yu Yang, John Quensen, Jacques Mathieu, Qiong Wang, Jing Wang, Mengyan Li, James M. Tiedje, Pedro J.J. Alvarez. 2014. “Pyrosequencing reveals higher impact of silver nanoparticles than Ag+ on the microbial community structure of activated sludge.” Water Research, vol. 48, pp. 317 - 325.

Mengyan Li, Jacques Mathieu, Yuanyuan Liu, E. Tess Van Orden, Yu Yang, Stephanie Fiorenza, Pedro J. J. Alvarez. 2014. “The Abundance of Tetrahydrofuran/Dioxane Monooxygenase Genes (thmA/dxmA) and 1,4-Dioxane Degradation Activity Are Significantly Correlated at Various Impacted Aquifers.” Environmental Science \& Technology Letters, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 122-127.

Mengyan Li, Jacques Mathieu, Yu Yang, Stephanie Fiorenza, Ye Deng, Zhili He, Jizhong Zhou, Pedro J. J. Alvarez. 2013. “Widespread Distribution of Soluble Di-Iron Monooxygenase (SDIMO) Genes in Arctic Groundwater Impacted by 1,4-Dioxane.” Environmental Science \& Technology, vol. 47, no. 17, pp. 9950-9958.

Mengyan Li, Patrick Conlon, Stephanie Fiorenza, Rock J. Vitale, Pedro J.J. Alvarez. 2011. “Rapid Analysis of 1,4-Dioxane in Groundwater by Frozen Micro-Extraction with Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry.” Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 70--76.

Mengyan Li, Stephanie Fiorenza, James R. Chatham, Shaily Mahendra, Pedro J.J. Alvarez. 2010. “1,4-Dioxane biodegradation at low temperatures in Arctic groundwater samples.” Water Research, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 2894 - 2900.

Zizhong Zhang, Mengyan Li, Wei Chen, Shuzhen Zhu, Nannan Liu, Lingyan Zhu. 2010. “Immobilization of lead and cadmium from aqueous solution and contaminated sediment using nano-hydroxyapatite.” Environmental Pollution, vol. 158, no. 2, pp. 514 - 519.