Research Area 1: The Effects of Urbanization and Land Use Practices on Avian Community in Nanjing, China
Research Area 2 (2013): Bat communities and foraging ecology along an urban-rural gradient in Nanjing, China
Research Area 3 (2012): SIP-Targeted Metagenomics: Combining DNA Stable-Isotope Probing with High-Throughput Pyrosequencing to Investigate Ammonia-Oxidizing Prokaryotes in Agricultural Ecosystems
Research Area 4: Microbial community diversity shift as environmental biosensor
Research Area 5: Comparative genomics among select plant species
Research Area 6: Attaining Ecological balance in sustainable bamboo production
Research Area 7: Somatic embryogenesis and micropropagation of Lycoris species
Research Area 8: Analyzing spatial and temporal change of urban plant communities in Shanghai
Research Area 9: Assessing urban heat island and its spatial and temporal patterns of Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing, China using thermal infrared of Landsat data
Research Area 10 (2013): Dietary preferences and behavioral differences of the endemic Hainan Keelback and the widespread Red-necked Keelback on Hainan Island, China