As PIs
2020 - 2023: Social amoeba-Burkholderia interactions (NSFC 31970384);
2020 - 2022: Diversity of soil amoebas (NSFC 41907021 );
2020 - 2022: Amoebas in drinking water systems;
2018 - 2021: Eology and evolution of amoeba-bacteria interactions;
2016 - 2019: Proto-farming and the carried microbiome in a social amoeba, Life Science Research Foundation (LSRF);
2013 - 2014: Popularizing Evolution in China, European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB).
As member
2011 - 2014: Towards a mechanistic basis of adaptive maternal effects: geographic variation in embryonic acid stress tolerance and egg envelope composition of amphibians, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
2010 - 2013: Study of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii microRNAs involved in sulfur-deprived and H2-producing, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
2012 - 2014: Artificial microRNAs based bio-hydrogen production by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).