Colleges & Faculties

I. Personal information

Weiwei Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Master’s Supervisor, Member of the Communist Party of China. Born in Jincheng, Shanxi Province.Worked at Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences from 2016 to 2023.Joined Department of Horticulture, College of Plant Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture in August 2023.

II. Research interests

Resource collection and evaluation, domestication and breeding, cultivation physiology, metabolic regulation, purification of active substances of edible and medicinal fungi.

III. Research Projects

Presided over 1 project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 project of Beijing Natural Science Foundation, 1 project of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, and 1 horizontal project.Participated in more than 10 projects including National Key R&D Program, local science and technology plan projects, university-level scientific research projects and horizontal projects.

IV. Major Achievements

Achieved certain results in purification of functional substances of edible and medicinal fungi and lignocellulose degradation.Published more than 40 academic papers, including more than 20 SCI papers (14 as first author).Obtained 8 national invention patents.

Representative papers

1. Zhang, Wei-Wei; Guo, Yu-Xin; Chen, Qing-Jun; Wang, Yi-Yang; Wang, Qiu-Ying; Yang, Ya-Ru; Zhang, Guo-Qing* ; Metagenomic insights into the lignocellulose degradation mechanism during short-term composting of peach sawdust: Core microbial community and carbohydrate-active enzyme profile analysis, Environmental Technology & Innovation, 2025, 37. IF 6.7.

2. Weiwei Zhang; Xiaojie Zheng; Xiangdong Chen; Xuezhen Jiang; Hexiang Wang*; Guoqing Zhang*; Lead detoxification of edible fungi Auricularia auricula and Pleurotus ostreatus: the purification of the chelation substances and their efects on rats, Frontiers in nutrition,10: p.1162110. IF 6.6.

3. Weiwei Zhang; Xiangdong Chen*; Guohui Liu; Gaoping Jin; Ye Li; Guoqiang Li; Choong Yew Keong; Jin Lan*; Study on the chemical changes of Quercus acuttisima by Ganoderma lucidum cultivation after different years by FTIR analysis, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2022, 266. IF 4.8.

4. Zhang Weiwei; Jiang Xuezhen; Zhao Shuang; Zheng Xiaojie; Lan Jin*; Wang HX*; NgNg TB*, A polysaccharide-peptide with mercury clearance activity from dried fruiting bodies of maitake mushroomGrifola frondosa,Scientific reports, 2018(8): 17630. IF 4.1.

V. Contact information

Postal address: College of Plant Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture, No. 7, Beinong Road, Huilongguan, Changping, Beijing, 102206

Email: wwzhang@bua.edu.cn