Gui Mengyao

Personal information

surname and personal name ： Gui Mengyao

Job Title: Lecturer

Contact (email): guimengyao@ncu.edu.cn

Address: Environmental Building, Qianhu Campus, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Honggutan District, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China

Education and Work Experience

Aug. 2017 – Present: Lecturer, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Nanchang University

Sep. 2012 – Jul. 2017: Doctor of Science (Sc.D.), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Environment, Peking University (Supervisor: Ni Jinren)

Sep. 2008 – Jul. 2012: Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Environment, Donghua University (Supervisor: Xue Gang)

Academic part-time position

Member, Professional Committee of Civil Engineering Infrastructure, Jiangxi Civil Engineering and Architecture Society

Field of investigation

Microbial Technology for Water Pollution Control

Research Overview

Based on environmental microbial technology, dedicated to the research of water pollution control and advanced treatment. Focusing on the efficient and low-carbon aerobic denitrification biological nitrogen removal process, investigating the response mechanism and regulation of aerobic denitrification under pollutant stress to provide theoretical basis for the optimization of biological nitrogen removal processes. Principal Investigator of Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation Project; Participant of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Project; Published more than 10 SCI papers, with several first-authored papers published in Top journals in the environmental field such as Bioresource Technology and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Rewards and Honors

First Prize for Teaching Achievements, Nanchang University

Excellent Class Advisor, Nanchang University

Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Municipality

Representative achievements

Representative paper

1. Gui Mengyao; Yang Hongwei; Ouyang Erming. Mechanistic insights into the effects of polystyrene nanoplastics (NPs) on aerobic denitrification in Pseudomonas stutzeri PCN-1: Integrated physiological and transcriptional analysis, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2025, 13(3): 117005

2. Gui Mengyao. Effect of humic acid on aerobic denitrification by Achromobacter sp. strain GAD-3, Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, 2024, 138(4): 338-344

3. Gui Mengyao; Chen Qian; Ni Jinren; Effect of sulfamethoxazole on aerobic denitrification by strain Pseudomonas stutzeri PCN-1., Bioresource Technology, 2017, 235: 325-331

4. Gui Mengyao; Chen Qian; Ma Tao; Zheng Maosheng; Ni Jinren; Effects of heavy metals on aerobic denitrification by strain Pseudomonas stutzeri PCN-1, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2017, 101(4): 1717-1727

5. Gui Mengyao; Chen Qian; Ni Jinren; Effect of NaCl on aerobic denitrification by strain Achromobacter sp. GAD-3, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2017, 101(12): 5139-5147

Some of the main research projects

1. Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists: Mechanism of the effects of typical microplastics on aerobic denitrification in the Poyang Lake Basin (Grant No.: 20242BAB20245), Principal Investigator

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Project: Ecological Mechanism and Regulation of Nitrate Nitrogen Pollution Formation in the Water Source Area of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (Grant No.: 51539001), Participant

3. Jiangxi Provincial Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project: Integration Reform and Practice of "Content-Method-Evaluation" in Water Pollution Control Engineering from the Perspective of Industry-Education Integration – Cultivation of Environmental Engineering Talents for the Needs of the Environmental Protection Industry, Principal Investigator

4. Nanchang University Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project: Exploration of Teaching Reform in Water Pollution Control Engineering under the Background of Emerging Engineering Education, Principal Investigator

Invention Patents

1. 1. Ni Jinren; Gui Mengyao; Zheng Maosheng; A Pseudomonas stutzeri strain with both hexavalent chromium removal and aerobic denitrification capabilities and its application, Sep. 29, 2020, China, CN201710474781.1

2. Ni Jinren; Gui Mengyao; Chen Qian; An Achromobacter strain tolerant to sulfonamide antibiotic toxicity and its application, Sep. 25, 2020, China, CN201710474535.6

3. Ni Jinren; Gui Mengyao; Chen Qian; An Achromobacter strain with both hexavalent chromium removal and aerobic denitrification capabilities and its application, Sep. 11, 2020, China, CN201710474774.1

4. Ni Jinren; Gui Mengyao; Zheng Maosheng; A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain tolerant to zinc ion toxicity and its application, Aug. 4, 2020, China, CN201710475189.3