2006年本科毕业于北京师范大学生命科学学院；2009年硕士毕业于北京师范大学生命科学学院，师从张大勇教授；2015年博士毕业于美国德雷塞尔大学生物系，师从Jacob A. Russell教授；2019年6月至今，任职于北京师范大学生命科学学院。主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、国家高层次人才特殊支持计划青年拔尖人才项目和北师大领军人才培育项目等。获得仲英青年学者称号，北京师范大学邓魁英优秀青年教师奖，北京师范大学第十七届青年教师基本功大赛一等奖，入选国家万人计划青年拔尖人才计划。

教育背景

2009-09至2015-06，美国德雷塞尔大学，环境科学，博士（导师：Jacob A. Russell教授）

2006-09至2009-06，北京师范大学，生态学，硕士（导师：张大勇教授）

2002-09至2006-06，北京师范大学，生命科学，学士

学术经历：

2024-07至今，北京师范大学，生命科学学院，教授

2019-06至2024-07，北京师范大学，生命科学学院，副教授

2015-09至2019-03，Drexel University，Department of Biology，博士后

2016-01至 2016-03，University of Lausanne，Department of Fundamental Microbiology，访问学者

■研究动物与微生物共生关系的进化机制与生态功能。目前主要以昆虫，特别是蚂蚁为研究对象，采用多种研究手段，包括野外实验观察采集、高通量测序、生物信息学分析、微生物培养及基因功能验证等，研究共生细菌的生物多样性、进化历史、生物学功能及其对宿主生态和进化的影响。

1.    Hu Y, Moreau CS. (2026) Nutritional symbiosis between ants and their symbiotic microbes. Annual Review of Entomology. 71.

2.    Ma M., Li Q., Wu F., Zhu B., Lu H., Zhang D., Łukasik P., & Hu Y*. (2025) Symbiotic solutions for colony nutrition: Conserved nitrogen recycling within the bacterial pouch of Tetraponera ants, PNAS. 122 (44) e2514882122

3.    Hu Y*, D’Amelio CL, Béchade B, et al. (2023) Partner fidelity and environmental filtering preserve stage-specific turtle ant gut symbioses for over 40 million years. Ecological Monographs. 93 (1), e1560.

4.    Hu Y*#, Sanders JG#, Łukasik P, D’Amelio CL, et al. (2018) Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome. Nature Communications. 9: 964. 

5.    Hu Y*, Holway DA, Łukasik P, Chau L, Kay AD, LeBrun EG, Miller KA, Sanders JG, Suarez AV, Russell JA. (2017) By their own devices: invasive Argentine ants have shifted diet without clear aid from symbiotic microbes. Molecular Ecology. 26: 1608-1630.

6.    Hu Y, Liao WJ, Zhang DY, Barrett SC. (2015) Experimental analysis of mating patterns in a clonal plant reveals contrasting modes of self-pollination. Ecology and Evolution 5: 5423-5431.

7.    Russell JA#, Hu Y#, Chau L, Pauliushchyk M, Anastopoulos I, Anandan S, Waring MS. (2014) Indoor biofilter growth and exposure to airborne chemicals similarly alter bacterial communities from plant roots. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80: 4805-4813.

8.    Hu Y, Łukasik P, Moreau CS, Russell JA. (2014) Correlates of gut community composition across an ant species (Cephalotes varians) elucidate causes and consequences of symbiotic variability. Molecular Ecology 23: 1284-1300.

9.    Ma M, Michalik A, Deng J, Hu Y, Łukasik P. (2025) Contrasting genomic trajectories of Bartonellaceae symbionts of planthoppers. Genome Biology Evolution. evaf216, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf216.

10.  Cabuslay C, Wertz JT, Béchade B, Hu Y, Braganza S, Freeman D, Pradhan S, Mukhanova M, Powell S, Moreau CS, Russell JA. (2024) Domestication and evolutionary histories of specialized gut symbionts across cephalotine ants. Molecular Ecology 33 (15):e17454.

11.  Béchade B, Cabuslay C, Hu Y, et al. (2023) Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants. The ISME Journal 17, 1751-1764.

12.  Béchade B, Hu Y, Sanders JG, et al. (2022) Turtle ants harbor metabolically versatile microbiomes with conserved functions across development and phylogeny. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 98(8).

13.  Łukasik P, Newton JA, Sanders JG, Hu Y, Moreau CS, Kronauer D, O’Donnell S, Koga R, Russell JA. (2017) The structured diversity of specialized gut symbionts of the New World army ants. Molecular Ecology. 26(14):3808–3825.

14.  Russell JA, Weldon S, Smith AH, Kim KL, Hu Y, Łukasik P, Doll S, Anastopoulos I, Novin M, Oliver KM (2013) Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids. Molecular Ecology 22: 2045-2059.

15.  Anderson KE, Russell JA, Moreau CS, Kautz S, Sullam K, Hu Y, Basinger U, Mott BM, Buck N and Wheeler D (2012) Highly similar microbial communities are shared among related and trophically similar ant species. Molecular Ecology 21, 2282-2296.

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