研究员(二级)，博士生导师，特殊环境藻类生物学学科组组长。长期从事藻类生物的分离纯化、代谢生理、起源进化、及资源化利用，并探索它们参与碳、氮、硫等元素的生物地球化学循环工作，为荒漠环境治理技术的提升、地球生命拓殖地外空间和气候变化的预测预警提供服务。主要包括：将分离纯化和收集的全球广布蓝藻——具鞘微鞘藻(Microcoleus vaginatus)，利用二三代基因组测序技术和生物信息学手段，探究它们起源进化、物种形成、物种边界维持、及多样性机制；将特殊环境分离到的强抗性蓝藻和绿藻，在室内和空间站，进行微重力、辐射等胁迫条件的模拟和原位适应性研究；利用高产氧藻株与小型水生动植物构建封闭生态系统，探究水生态系统在飞行器稳定运行的机理；将蓝藻在地球沙表形成的结皮生态系统，运送到临近空间、空间站，从群落组成、活性代谢、代谢产物、藻际微生物、及其相互作用等方面，探索它们生长、代谢和生物量碳转化的机理。目前，出版相关专著2部，在Soil Biology & Biochemistry、Environmental Science & Technology、NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes、Biotechnology and Bioengineering、Biotechnology for Biofuels、Bioresource Technology等杂志发表科研论文139篇，获授权发明专利11项，省部级自然科学二等奖1项、科技进步二等奖等多项。

近5年发表的相关工作主要有：

1、Li YL, Wang FD, Yang HJ, Li Hua, Hu CX. Balanced biogeographic and local environmental effects determine the patterns of microbial diversity in biocrusts at multiscales. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023.

2、Guo XY, Li H, Huo D, Hu CX, Li RH, Zhang SL, Song LR. Aridity modulates biogeographic distribution and community assembly of cyanobacterial morphotypes in drylands. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 1-12, 2023.

3、Yang HJ, Zhang J, Li Hua. Strategies of NaCl tolerance in saline–alkali-tolerant green microalga Monoraphidium dybowskii LB50. Plants, 12, 34953, 2023.

4、Li Q, Hu CX, Yang HJ. Responses of cyanobacterial crusts and microbial communities to extreme environments of the stratosphere. Microorganisms, 10,1252, 2022. 

5、Wang Q, Zhang QY, Han YC, Zhang DL, Zhang CC, Hu CX. The carbon cycle in microbial ecosystems of biological soil crusts. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 171: 108729, 2022..

6、Han YC, Wang Q, Li Q, Hu CX. Active metabolism and biomass dynamics of biocrusts are shaped by variation in their successional state and seasonal energy resources. Science of the total Environment, 831: 154756, 2022 

7、Li YL, Wei JY, Yang HJ, Zhang DL, Hu CX. Biogeography, driving factors, assembly, and co-occurrence patterns of archaeal community in biocrusts. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13:848908, 2022.

8、Lan S, Wu L, Adessi A, Hu C. Cyanobacterial persistence and influence on microbial community dynamics over 15 years in induced biocrusts. Environmental Microbiology, 24(1): 61-88, 2022. 

9、Yang HJ, Hu CX*. Soil chemistry and nutrients influence the distribution of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and eukaryotic phototrophic microorganisms of physical soil crusts at different elevations on the Tibetan Plateau, Microbial Ecology, 83: 100-113, 2022.

10、Zhao L, Lin LZ, Chen MY, Teng WK, Zheng LL, Peng L, Lv J, Brand JJ, Hu CX, Han BP, Song LR, Shu WS. The widespread capability of methylphosphonate utilization in filamentous cyanobacteria and its ecological significance. Water Research, 217: 118385, 2022.

11、葛红梅, 周雅茹, 柳诗莺, 王贤哲, 韩兴烨, 汪淑廉, 胡春香. 营养缺失对具鞘微鞘藻胞外多糖和糖原分配模式的影响. 水生生物学报, 46(2): 203-209, 2022.

12、Lan SB, Thomas AD, Rakes JB, Garcia-Pichel F, Wu L, Hu CX. Cyanobacterial community composition and their functional shifts associated with biocrust succession in the Gurbantunggut Desert. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 13(6):884-898, 2021.

13、Wang Q, Han YC, Lan SB, Hu CX. Metagenomic insight into patterns and mechanism of nitrogen cycle during biocrust succession. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12:633428, 2021.

14、Li YL, Hu CX.  Biogeographical patterns and mechanisms of microbial community assembly that underlie successional biocrusts across northern China.  NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes, 15, 2021.

15、Lan SB, Thomas AD, Tooth S, Wu L, Hu CX. Effects of vegetation on bacterial communities, carbon and nitrogen in dryland soil surfaces: implications for shrub encroachment in the southwest Kalahari. Science of the Total Environment,78:936–948, 2020 

16、Yang HJ, Hu CX*. Regulation and remodeling of intermediate metabolite and membrane lipid during NaCl-induced stress in freshwater microalga Micractinium sp. XJ-2 for biofuel production. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 117(12), 3727-3738, 2020.

17、Chen MY, Teng WK, Zhao L, Hu CX, Zhou YK, Han BP, Song LR, Shu WS. Comparative genomics reveals insights into cyanobacterial evolution and habitat adaptation. The ISME Journal, 15: 211–227, 2020.

18、Lan SB, Thomas AD, Tooth S, Wu L, Hu CX. Small-scale spatial heterogeneity of photosynthetic fluorescence associated with biological soil crust succession in the Tengger Desert, China. Microbial Ecology,78:936–948, 2019.

19、Ge, HM ,Wu, HY; Wan, DJ; Hu, CX*. The partition pattern of glycogen and extracellular polysaccharides in two filamentous cyanobacteria from desert soil crusts. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 28(3): 1683-1692, 2019

20、Zhang D, Tang J, Zhang J, Zhang DL, Hu CX. Responses of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in zebrafish liver exposed to sublethal doses of Aphanizomenon flosaquae DC-1 aphantoxins. Aquatic Toxicology, 215, 105269, 2019

21、胡春香，杨海剑，何桥宁，兰书斌，一种适用于室外的规模化光自养双阶段培养产油绿藻的方法，中国，ZL201510990916.0.