Education
PhD in Coastal Oceanography, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Staff title
Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies)
Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Prof. Wen-Xiong Wang entered Xiamen University (at age 15) to study Marine Biology and received his BSc and MSc in Marine Biology in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He went to study in the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in England in early 1989 as a Research Student (on Scholarship). Two years later, he moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA) to study for his PhD (on Scholarship). In 1996, he obtained his PhD degree in Coastal Oceanography and after a short stay at Stony Brook as a postdoctoral researcher, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor in late 1997. In 2003, he was promoted to Associate Professor, Full Professor in 2007, and Chair Professor in 2014. He joined City University of Hong Kong in 2020 as a Chair Professor.
Prof. Wang has authored >460 peer-reviewed publications on subjects related to metal ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry. His lab has trained numerous graduate students, postdoctorals and visiting scholars (~100). He is the corresponding or first author for the majority of his publications. He is one of the Editors of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry , and the Associate Editor of Environmental Pollution, and serves on the editorial boards of many other international journals. His work is widely cited (>20,000 times), with a current H-index of 75 (Google Scholar). He received the prestigious Overseas Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the Chinese National Science Foundation in 2002, the Biwako Prize for Ecology in Japan in 2003 for his work on metals in aquatic systems, the Changjiang Chair Professorship in 2006, the First Prize in Natural Science from the Ministry of Education in China in 2009 for his work on the trophic transfer of metals, and the First Prize in Environmental Protection Science and Technology from the Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2016. He is an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology 'FIMarEST' (UK-based), and an Elected Fellow of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).
The overall research theme in the laboratory is trace metal ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry in aquatic systems. Such framework includes the transport, speciation, environmental fate, bioavailability, bioaccumulation, toxicity, as well as environmental risk assessment of metals in aquatic environments. We are interested in both the fundamental and applied aspects of metal ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry. It is hoped that a combination of both fundamental and applied metal ecotoxicology will eventually help the management/protection of marine and freshwater environments.
More recently, we are interested in developing the state-of-the-art bioimaging technologies enabling the direct visualizations of metals and their speciation at the subcellular/cellular levels. Most of these works currently focus on the nanoparticles in model organisms.
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Publications (~460 peer-reviewed papers, including >60 in ES&T)Ma L, Wang W, Xie M, Wang W-X, Evans R. Using Zn isotopic signatures for source identification in a contaminated estuary of Southern China. Environmental Science and Technology
Li Y, Zhang X, Meng J, Chen J, You X, Shi Q, Wang W-X*. 2020. Molecular responses of an estuarine oyster to multiple metal contamination in Southern China revealed by RNA-seq. Science of the Total Environment 701: 134648
Wang H, Xia XH, Liu R, Wang Z, Lin X, Muir DCG, Wang W-X. 2020. Multi-compartmental toxicokinetic modeling of discrete dietary and continuous waterborne uptake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by zebrafish Danio rerio. Environmental Science and Technology
Shao ZS, Wang W-X*. 2020. Biodynamics of silver nanoparticles in an estuarine oyster revealed by 110mAgNPs tracing. Environmental Science and Technology
Zhao CM, Wang W-X*. 2019. Biokinetics and subcellular distribution of metals in a freshwater cladoceran following Zn exposure: Implication for metal regulation. Science of the Total Environment 696: 134004
Li Y, Yan N, Wong T, Wang W-X*, Liu H. 2019. Interaction of antibacterial silver nanoparticles and microbiota-dependent holobiont revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis. Environmental Science: Nano 10.1039/C9EN00587K
Leung CY, Tu Y, Tang BZ, Wang W-X*. 2019. Dissolution kinetics of zinc oxide nanoparticles: Real-time monitoring by a Zn2+-specific fluorescent probe. Environmental Science: Nano 6: 2259-2268.
Weng NY, Jiang H, Wang W-X*. 2019. Novel insights into the role of copper in critical life stages of oysters revealed by high resolution NanoSIMS imaging. Environmental Science and Technology 53: 14724-14733.
Yan N, He X, Tang BZ, Wang W-X*. 2019. Differentiating silver nanoparticles and ions in Medaka larvae by coupling two aggregation-induced emission fluorophores. Environmental Science and Technology 53: 5895-5905.
Wang W-X*, Tan QG. 2019. Applications of dynamic models in predicting the bioaccumulation, transport and toxicity of trace metals in aquatic organisms. Environmental Pollution 252: 1561-1573.
Wang X, Wang W-X*. 2019. The three ‘B’ of fish mercury in China: bioaccumulation, biodynamics and biotransformation. Environmental Pollution 250: 216-232.
Li WZ, Wang W-X*. 2019. In vivo oral bioavailability of fish mercury and comparison with in vitro bioaccessibility. Science of the Total Environment 683: 648-658.
Chan CY, Wang W-X*. 2019. Biomarker responses in oysters upon shifted metal contamination in the Pearl River Estuary, Southern China. Environmental Pollution 251: 264-276.
Weng NY, Wang W-X*. 2019. Seasonal fluctuations of metal bioaccumulation and reproductive health of local oyster populations in a large contaminated estuary. Environmental Pollution 250: 175-185.
Xie M, Simpson SL, Wang W-X*. 2019. Bioturbation effects on metal release from contaminated sediments are metal-dependent. Environmental Pollution 250: 87-96.
Ma L, Li W, Wang W, Weng NY, Evans D, Wang W-X*. 2019. Zn isotope fractionation in the oyster Crassostrea hongkongensis and implications for contaminant source tracking. Environmental Science and Technology (Cover) 53: 6402-6409.
Lu G, Zhu A, Fan H, Dong Y, Wang W-X*. 2019. Establishing baseline trace metals in marine bivalves in China and worldwide: Meta-analysis and modeling approach. Science of the Total Environment 669: 746-753.
Yan L, Wang W-X*. 2019. Comparative contributions of copper nanoparticles and ions to copper bioaccumulation and toxicity in barnacle larvae. Environmental Pollution 249: 116-124.
Zhang L, Wang W-X*. 2019. Dominant role of silver ions in silver nanoparticle toxicity to a unicellular alga: Evidence from luminogen imaging. Environmental Science and Technology 53: 494-502.
Li WZ, Wang W-X*. 2019. Inter-species differences of total mercury and methylmercury in farmed fish in Southern China: Does feed matter. Science of the Total Environment 651: 1857-1866.
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Research Interests
Metal ecotoxicology
Nanotoxicology
Estuary pollution
