教育经历

2019.8-2024.12 奥本大学 兽医学院 博士学位 导师：王旭

2018.9-2025.6   同济大学 生命科学与技术学院 导师：朱融融

2014.9-2018.6   南京医科大学 基础医学院 学士学位

工作经历

2025.7至今 国科大杭州高等研究院 环境学院 博士后 合作导师：徐霞红 研究员

获奖及荣誉

1. 2023-2024美国Elanco公司生物医学动物健康科学奖学金

2. 2018南京医科大学优秀毕业生

3. 2016-2017南京医科大学三等奖学金

4. 2016-2017南京医科大学“三好学生”

5. 2015-2016南京医科大学二等奖学金

6. 2015南京医科大学第三届“创新杯”大学生计算机设计二等奖

7. 2014-2015南京医科大学一等奖学金

学术成果

1. Ma X, Brinker E, Lea CR, Delmain D, Chamorro ED, Martin D, Graff EC, and Wang X. Evaluation of fecal sample collection methods for feline gut microbiome profiling: fecal loop vs. litter box. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15 (2024): 1337917.

2. Ma X, Lazarowski L, Zhang Y, Krichbaum S, Smith JG, Zheng J, Cao W, Haney PS, Wilborn RR, Price SB, Singletary M, Waggoner LP, and Wang X. Metagenomic analysis reveals associations between memory performance and Bifidobacterium pseudolongum abundance in canine gut microbiome. iScience, 27(5), 109611.

3. Ma X, Brinker E, Graff EC, Cao W, Gross AL, Johnson A, Zhang C, Martin D, and Wang X. Whole-genome shotgun metagenomic sequencing revealed distinct gut microbiome signatures of obese cats. Microbiology Spectrum, 10(3): e00837-22.

4. Ma X, Brinker E, Cao W, Graff EC, Wang X. Evaluating feline rectum fecal sample collection method using mineral oil lubrication for microbiome studies. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 36(6):1974-1980.

5. Hamilton M*, Ma X*, McCrea B, Carrisosa M, Macklin K, Zhang C, Wang X and Hauck R. Influence of Eimeria spp. infection on chicken jejunal microbiota and the efficacy of two alternative products against the infection. Avian Diseases, 64(2), 123-129. (*contributed equally to this work)

6. Brinker EJ, Towns TJ, Watanabe R, Ma X, Bashir A, Cole RC, Wang X, Graff EC.Direct activation of the fibroblast growth factor-21 pathway in overweight and obese cats. Frontiers in Veterinary Sciences, 10:1072680.