Dr. Yanping Mao, associate professor of college of chemistry and environmental engineering at Shenzhen University. Dr. Mao interests in learning about the mechanism responsible for wastewater treatment process, the ecology of significant functional bacteria and antimicrobial resistance. Metagenomics and post-genomics methods are used to study how gene expression is regulated, and to discover previously unrecognized biochemical pathways that may be critically important for unveiling the biodegradation mechanisms of emerging contaminants, and understanding the energy, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus budgets within the cell.