Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine

Department of Environmental Medicine

* pinghu@hust.edu.cn

Overview

Ping Hu is an associate professor of Institute of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health in Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST). She graduated with a major in Environmental Science at Nankai University in 2004 and received her PhD in Environmental Microbiology at Texas A&M University in 2012. She worked as a postdoctoral research associate in rhizosphere soil microbial ecology using metagenomic and metatransciptomic tools at Virginia Tech University from 2012 to 2014. From 2015, she started her research in the field of molecular epidemiology with focus on the association between microbiome and human health. She visited the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden in 2016 for a research in microbiome in human stomach related to gastritis and gastric cancer. Currently she is working on gut microbiota associated with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and its impacts on microbiota of the offspring based on birth cohort studies.

Academic Areas

Microbial Ecology, Human Microbiome

Research Interests

Epidemiological studies to investigate the association of gut microbiota with human health and diseases.

Selected Professional Affiliations

2017-now          vice chairman of youth committee at Hubei Preventive Medicine Association-Disinfection, Sterilization and Hospital infection control.

Courses Taught

Human microbiome and health / Prevention medicine comprehensive experiment / Laboratory sciences for virus infection

Education

2008/08-2012/05     Ph.D., Texas A&M University, Texas, U.S.

2006/01-2008/12     M.S., Kansas State University, Kansas, U.S.

2000/09-2004/06    B.S., Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Professional/working Experience

2015-now          associate professor at School of Public Health, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

2016-2016        visiting scholar at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB), Karolinska Institutet.

2012-2014        Post doc research associate at the Lab of Microbial Ecology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Past and ongoing projects, funding, programs

2018-2019  Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China, the gut microbiota associated with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)- preliminary study based on a birth cohort.

2015-now    Personnel recruitment foundation by Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Select Publications

Journal Article

*Corresponding author

1.        Ping Hu#*, Liangjun Wu#, Emily B. Hollister, Autumn S. Wang, Anil Somenahally, F.M. Hons, and T.J. Gentry. Fungal Community Structural and Microbial Functional Pattern Changes After Soil Amendments by Oilseed Meals of Jatropha curcas and Camelina sativa: A Microcosm Study. Front. Microbiol. 10:537. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00537.

2.       Ping Hu#*, Emily B. Hollister, Anil Somenahally, F.M. Hons, and T.J. Gentry. Soil Fungal and Bacterial Community Changes after Different Types of Isothiocyanate Application. 2015. Frontiers in Microbiology. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00729.

3.       Ping Hu#*, A.S. Wang, A.S. Engledow, E.B. Hollister, K.L. Rothlisberger, J.E. Matocha, D.A. Zuberer, T.L. Provin, F.M. Hons, and T.J. Gentry. Inhibition of the Germination and Growth of Phymatotrichopsis omnivora (Cotton Root Rot) by Oilseed Meals and Isothiocyanates. 2011. Applied Soil Ecology. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2011.06.014.