Address: 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China

Email: ddwang2017@163.com

Education:

9/2017-6/2022 Ph.D. Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

10/2014-10/2017 M.S. Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

9/2010-6/2014 B.S. Plant Protection, College of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

Research Experience:

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 7/2022 –

Postdoctoral Fellow in Institute of Zoology, laboratory of Dr. Guan-Hong Wang.

Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China 9/2017 – 6/2022

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, laboratory of Dr. Cong Wei.

Project: Co-evolution of cicadas and their endosymbionts

Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China 9/2014 – 7/2017

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, laboratory of Dr. Cong Wei.

Project: Microbial diversity of cicadas

Research Areas:

Evolutionary Biology; Entomology; Phylogenetics; Microbiology; Symbiosis

Publications:

1. Wang D, Huang Z, Billen J, Zhang G, He H, and Wei C. 2022. Complex co-evolutionary relationships between cicadas and their symbionts. Environ Microbiol. 24(1), 195–211. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.15829

2. Wang D, Huang Z, Billen J, Zhang G, He, H, and Wei, C. 2021. Structural diversity of symbionts and related cellular mechanisms underlying vertical symbiont transmission in cicadas. Environ Microbiol. 23(11), 6603–6621. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.15711

3. Wang D, Liu Y, Su Y, Wei C. 2021. Bacterial communities in bacteriomes, ovaries and testes of three geographical populations of a sap-feeding insect, Platypleura kaempferi (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Curr Microbiol. 78(5), 1778–1791. doi:10.1007/s00284-021-02435-7

4. Wang D, Wei C. 2020. Bacterial communities in digestive and excretory organs of cicadas. Arch Microbiol. 202(3), 539–553. doi:10.1007/s00203-019-01763-4

5. Wang D, Huang Z, He H, Wei C. 2018. Comparative analysis of microbial communities associated with bacteriomes, reproductive organs and eggs of the cicada Subpsaltria yangi. Arch Microbiol. 200(2), 227–235. doi:10.1007/s00203-017-1432-8

6. Huang Z, Wang D, Li J, Wei C, He H. 2020. Transovarial transmission of bacteriome-associated symbionts in the cicada Pycna repanda (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Appl Environ Microbiol. 86(12), e02957-19. doi:10.1128/AEM.02957-19

7. Zheng Z, Wang D, He H, Wei C. 2017. Bacterial diversity of bacteriomes and organs of reproductive, digestive and excretory systems in two cicada species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). PLoS One. 12(4), e0175903. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0175903