Educational experience：

2020-present, Postdoctoral researcher, Beijing Normal University 2014-2020, PhD, Beijing Normal University 2010-2014, BS, Hebei Normal University

Statement：

I am interested in the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. My PhD research focused on understanding the effect of temperature on mutation rates and fitness consequences of spontaneous mutations, using experimental evolution with Escherichia coli. I am now working primarily on how bacteria adapt under different evolutionary temperatures with Quan-Guo Zhang and his talented lab group. Other work I have been doing includes thermal effects on the coevolution dynamics of Pseudomonas fluorescens and its lytic phage.

Selected Publication：

1. Chu X, Zhang B, Zhang Q, Zhu B, Lin K, Zhang D. 2018 Temperature responses of mutation rate and mutational spectrum in an Escherichia coli strain and the correlation with metabolic rate. BMC Evol. Biol. 18, 126.

2. Chu X, Zhang D, Buckling A, Zhang Q. 2020 Warmer temperatures enhance beneficial mutation effects. J. Evol. Biol. 33, 1020–1027.