2016 – Present, Biodiversity Conservation Center, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2006 – 2010, School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Bachelor's Degree

2010 – 2016, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Doctorate Degree

Environmental Adaptation and Evolution of Amphibians:

(1) Metagenomics of Amphibian Conservation

(2) Environmental Adaptation of the Chinese Giant Salamander

(3) Molecular mechanisms underlying the Morphological and Functional Traits for Environmental adaptation in Amphibians

2023 – Present, Committee Member, Mountain Resources Research Professional Committee, China Society of Natural Resources

2022 – Present, Associate Editor, Frontiers in Microbiology

2022 – 2023, Guest Editor, Animals

1.        Liming Chang, Qiheng Chen, Bin Wang, Jiongyu Liu, Meihua Zhang, Wei Zhu* and Jianping Jiang*. Single cell RNA analysis uncovers the cell differentiation and functionalization for air breathing of frog lung. Communications Biology, 2024, 7: 665 (JCRQ1 Top，IF=5.90)

2.        Wei Zhu, Liming Chang*, Meihua Zhang, Qiheng Chen, Lulu Sui, Cheng Shen and Jianping Jiang*. Microbial diversity in mountain-dwelling amphibians: The combined effects of host and climatic factors. iScience, 2024, 27:109907 (JCRQ2，IF=5.80)

3.        Liming Chang, Wei Zhu* and Jianping Jiang*. What frog gill resorption brings: loss of function, cell death, and metabolic reorganization. Frontiers in Zoology, 21:11 (JCRQ2，Zoology Q1，IF = 2.8)

4.        Xuanzhen Liu, Jianqiu Yu, Zongjin Huan, Mei Xu, Ting Song, Ruilin Yang, Wei Zhu* and Jianping Jiang. Comparing the gut microbiota of Sichuan golden monkeys across multiple captive and wild settings: roles of anthropogenic activities and host factors. BMC genomics, 2024, 25:148 (JCRQ2 Top，IF = 4.4)

5.        Wei Zhu^#, Liming Chang^#, Shengchao Shi, Ningning Lu, Simeng Du, Jiatang Li, Jianping Jiang, Bin Wang*. Gut microbiota reflect adaptation of cave-1 dwelling tadpoles to resource scarcity. ISME journal. 2024. 18. 1-14. (JCRQ1 Top, IF=11, Nature index)

6.        Yan Lv; Liming Chang; Jiongyu Liu; Qiheng Chen; Jianping Jiang, Wei Zhu*. Why Bufo gargarizans tadpoles grow bigger in Pb-contaminated environments? The gut microbiota matter. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023, 267, 115601. (JCRQ2 Top，IF=6.8)

7.        Qunde Zhang^#, Yan Lv^#, Jiongyu Liu, Liming Chang, Qiheng Chen, Lifeng Zhu, Bin Wang, Jianping Jiang, Wei Zhu*, Size matters either way: Differently-sized microplastics affect amphibian host and symbiotic microbiota discriminately. Environmental Pollution, 2023, 121634. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121634) (JCRQ2 Top, IF=8.9)

8.        Wei Zhu^#, Yan Lv^#, Qunde Zhang, Liming Chang, Qiheng Chen, Bin Wang*, Jianping Jiang, Cascading effects of Pb on the environmental and symbiotic microbiota and tadpoles' physiology based on field data and laboratory validation, Science of the total environment, 2023, 160817 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160817). (JCRQ1 Top, IF=10.7529)

9.        Jianyi Feng^#, Wei Zhu^#, Jianping Jiang, Chunlin Zhao, Zijian Sun, Wansheng Jiang, Qinghua Luo, Tian Zhao*, Reintroduction modifies the intraspecific variations of symbiotic microbes in captive bred Chinese giant salamander, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022, Online, (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1062604). (JCRQ2 Top, IF=6.0644)

10.     Liming Chang, Wei Zhu*, Jianping Jiang, Albinism in the largest extant amphibian: A metabolic, endocrine, or immune problem? Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022, Online, (doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.1053732). (JCRQ2 IF=6.0554)

11.     Wei Zhu, Tian Zhao, Chunlin Zhao, Cheng Li, Feng Xie, Jiongyu Liu, Jianping Jiang*, How will warming affect the growth and body size of the largest extant amphibian? More than the temperature–size rule, Science of the total environment, 2022, 859(160105), (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160105). (JCRQ1 Top, IF=10.7529)

12.     Yan Lv^#, Qunde Zhang^#, Liming Changa, Duoli Yang, Luqman Riaz, Cheng Li, Xiaohong Chen*, Jianping Jiang, Wei Zhu*, Multi-omics provide mechanistic insight into the Pb-induced changes in tadpole fitness-related traits and environmental water quality, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022, 247(114207), (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.114207). (JCRQ2 Top, IF=7.1289)

13.     Wei Zhu*^,#, Chunlin Zhao^#, Tian Zhao, Liming Chang, Qiheng Chen, Jiongyu Liu, Cheng Li, Feng Xie, Jianping Jiang*, Rising floor and dropping ceiling: organ heterogeneity in response to cold, acclimation of the largest extant, amphibian, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022, 289(20221394), (https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1394), (JCRQ1 Top, Nature index, IF=5.5302)

14.     Wei Zhu^#, Yin Qi^#, Xiaoyi Wang, Xiudong Shi, Liming Chang, Jiongyu Liu, Lifeng Zhu*, Jianping Jiang*, Multi-omics approaches revealed the associations of host metabolism and gut microbiome with phylogeny and environmental adaptation in mountain dragons, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022, 13(913700), (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.913700). (JCRQ2 Top, IF= 6.0644)

15.     Wei Zhu^#, Chunlin Zhao^#, Jianyi Feng, Jiang Chang, Wenbo Zhu, Liming Chang, Jiongyu Liu, Feng Xie, Cheng Li, Jianping Jiang*, Tian Zhao*, Effects of Habitat River Microbiome on the Symbiotic Microbiota and Multi-Organ Gene Expression of Captive-Bred Chinese Giant Salamander, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022, 13(884880), (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.884880). (JCRQ2 Top, IF= 6.0644)

16.     Liming Chang, Meihua Zhang, Qiheng Chen, Jiongyu Liu, Wei Zhu*, Jianping Jiang*, From water to land: the structural construction and molecular switches in lungs during metamorphosis of Microhyla fissipes, Biology, 2022, 11(528), (https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11040528). (JCRQ3 ，IF=5.1678)

17.     Chunlin Zhao^#, Tian Zhao^#, Jianyi Feng, Liming Chang, Puyang Zheng, Shijian Fu, Xiuming Li, Bisong Yue*, Jianping Jiang, Wei Zhu*, Temperature and diet acclimation modify the acute thermal performance of the largest extant amphibian, Animals, 2022, 12(4), (doi:10.3390/ani12040531). (JCRQ2 ，IF=3.2313)

18.     WeiZhu^#, Duoli Yang^#, Liming Chang, MeihuaZhang, Lifeng Zhu*, Jianping Jiang, Animal gut microbiome mediates the effects of antibiotic pollution on an artificial freshwater system, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, 425(5). (JCRQ1 Top, IF= 10.5886)

19.     Wei Zhu, Xiudong Shi, Yin Qi, Xiaoyi Wang, Liming Chang, Chunlin Zhao, Lifeng Zhu*, Jianping Jiang*, Commensal microbiota and host metabolic divergence are associated with the adaptation of Diploderma vela to spatially heterogeneous environments, Integrative Zoology, 2021, 0, (doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12590). (JCRQ1 Top, IF=2.6539)

20.     Zi-Jian Sun^#, Wei Zhu^#, Wen-Bo Zhu, Chun-Lin Zhao, Chun-Lin Liao, Bei Zou, Dan Xu, Wen-Bo Fan, Sheng-Qi Su, Jian-Ping Jiang*, Tian Zhao*, Spatiotemporal patterns of anuran functional diversity in temperate montane forests, Zoological Research, 2021, 42(4), (doi: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.341). (JCRQ1 Top, IF=4.5603)

21.     Liming Chang, Bin Wang, Meihua Zhang, Jiongyu Liu, Tian Zhao, Wei Zhu*, Jianping Jiang*, The effects of corticosterone and background colour on tadpole physiological plasticity, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D:, Genomics and Proteomics, 2021, 39(100872), (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbd.2021.100872). (JCRQ2 ，IF=2.6740)

22.     Wei Zhu^#, Liming Chang^#, Guocheng Shu, Bin Wang*, Jian-ping Jiang*, Fatter or stronger: Resource allocation strategy and the underlying metabolic mechanisms in amphibian tadpoles, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D:, Genomics and Proteomics, 2021, 38(100825), (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbd.2021.100825). (JCRQ2 ，IF=2.6740)

23.     Lifeng Zhu^#,*, Wei Zhu^#, Tian Zhao, Hua Chen, Chunlin Zhao, Liangliang Xu, Qing Chang, Jianping Jiang*, Environmental temperatures affect the gastrointestinal microbes of the Chinese giant salamander, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021, 12(543747), (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.543767). (JCRQ2 Top, IF=5.6398)

24.     Wei Zhu^#, Liming Chang^#, Tian Zhao, Bin Wang*, Jianping Jiang*, Remarkable metabolic reorganization and altered metabolic requirements in frog metamorphic climax, Frontiers in Zoology, 2020, 17(30), (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-020-00378-6). (JCRQ2 Top，Zoology Q1 , IF=2.5702)

25.     Liming Chang^#, Tian Zhao^#, Chunlin Zhao^#, Wenbo Zhu, Liangliang Xu, Jiongyu Liu, Cheng Li, Feng Xie, Jianping Jiang*, Wei Zhu*, Microbiomic and transcriptomic insight into the pathogenesis of meningitis-like disease in cultured Pelophylax nigromaculatus, Aquaculture, 2020, 530(735736), (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.735736). (JCRQ1 Top, IF=3.2241)

26.     Liming Chang^#, Wei Zhu^#, Shengchao Shi, Meihua Zhang, Jianping Jiang, Cheng Li, Feng Xie, Bin Wang*, Plateau grass and greenhouse flower? Distinct genetic basis of closely related toad tadpoles respectively adapted to high altitude and Karst caves, Genes, 2020, 11(123), (doi:10.3390/genes11020123). (JCRQ3 ，IF=3.7593)

27.     Xungang Wang^#, Liming Chang^#, Tian Zhao*, Lusha Liu, Mengjie Zhang, Cheng Li, Feng Xie, Jianping Jiang*, Wei Zhu*, Metabolic switch in energy metabolism mediates the sublethal effects induced by glyphosate-based herbicide on tadpoles of a farmland frog, Microhyla fissipes, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2019, 186(109794), (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.109794). (JCRQ2 Top, IF= 4.5273)

28.     Wei Zhu^#, Meihua Zhang^#, Liming Chang, Wenbo Zhu, Cheng Li, Feng Xie, Huan Zhang*, Tian Zhao*, Jianping Jiang*, Characterizing the composition,, metabolism and physiological functions of the fatty liver in Rana omeimontis tadpoles, Frontiers in Zoology, 2019, 16(42), (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-019-0341-x). (JCRQ2 Top, Zoology Q1 ，IF=2.9823)

29.     Wei Zhu, Lusha Liu, Xungang Wang, Xinyu Gao, Jianping Jiang*, Bin Wang*, Transcriptomics reveals the molecular processes of light-induced rapid darkening of the non-obligate cave dweller Oreolalax rhodostigmatus (Megophryidae, Anura) and their genetic basis of pigmentation strategy, BMC genomics, 2018, 19(422), (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4790-y). (JCRQ2 Top, IF= 3.7296)

30.     Wei Zhu^#, Qian Meng^#, Huan Zhang, Menglong Wang, Xuan Li, Hongtuo Wang, Guiling Zhou, Lin Miao, Qilian Qin*, Jihong Zhang*, Metabolomics reveals the key role of oxygen metabolism in heat susceptibility of an alpine-dwelling ghost moth, Thitarodes xiaojinensis (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), Insect Science, 2018, 00, (DOI 10.1111/1744-7917.12605). (JCRQ1 Top, IF=2.0908)

31.     Wei Zhu, Huan Zhang, Qian Meng, Menglong Wang, Guiling Zhou, Xuan Li, Hongtuo Wang, Lin Miao, Qilian Qin*, Jihong Zhang*, Metabolic insights into the cold survival strategy and overwintering of the common cutworm, Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Journal of Insect Physiology, 2017, 100, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.05.008). (JCRQ3 ，IF= 2.2270)

32.     Wei Zhu^#, Huan Zhang^#, Xuan Li, Qian Meng, Ruihao Shu, Menglong Wang, Guiling Zhou, Hongtuo Wang, Lin Miao, Jihong Zhang*, Qilian Qin*, Cold adaptation mechanisms in the ghost moth Hepialus xiaojinensis: Metabolic regulation and thermal compensation, Journal of Insect Physiology, 2016, 85, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.11.008). (JCRQ3 ，IF= 2.2672)

33.   Huan Gong^#, Wei Zhu^#, Jihong Zhang, Qian Meng, Guiling Zhou, Menglong Wang, Hongtuo Wang, Lin Miao, Qilian Qin*, Huan Zhang*, TTAGG-repeat telomeres and characterization, of telomerase in the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Insect Molecular Biology, 2015, 24(3), (doi: 10.1111/imb.12163). (JCRQ2 ，IF= 2.5888)

1. General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Comparative thermal physiology of Chinese giant salamander: Differences between clades, metabolic mechanisms, and significances in biological conservation" 32370529, 2024/01/01-2027/12/31, 500,000 RMB, Principal Investigator.

2. National Key R&D Program – The Third Xinjiang Scientific Expedition, Subproject, "Systematic Survey and Diversity Assessment of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Tarim River Basin," 2022xjkk0205-1, 2022/10-2025/9, 1,000,000 RMB, Principal Investigator.

3. Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Physiological and metabolic mechanisms underlying the hepatic fat-depended growth and within-cohort size variation in tadpoles of Rana omeimontis" 31900327, 2020/01/01-2022/12/31, 230,000 RMB, Principal Investigator.