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Introduction

Soils are the vital resources that provide life-supporting services of food production, water cleaning,

and habitats for humans and wildlife. Intensified agricultural production has deteriorated soil quality and

led to the increasing release of anthropogenic contaminants to the environment. The contamination of

agricultural soils has a plethora of negative impacts on food production and agroecosystem services.

Scientifically-informed agricultural practices and accurate evaluation of agro-environmental quality are

key to the sustainable development. During the past decades the rapid economic development in China

and some other countries has exerted enormous stress on agricultural soils, which creates new challenges

to policy makers, scientific community, and farming practice.

International Symposium on Agro-Environmental Quality (ISAEQ) is held at Nanjing Agricultural

University, Nanjing, China during November 2-5, 2018. This symposium provides an international forum

to address these challenges. Scientists, engineers, policy makers and other stakeholders can communicate

the latest advances in research, technology, application and management strategies related to mitigation

of soil contamination and sustainable agriculture.

Symposium Theme

The theme of this symposium is Soil Contamination, Food Safety and Sustainable Development.

The symposium focuses on the following topics:

(1) Occurrence, distribution, fate and transport of contaminants in soil, water and plant system

(2) Soil contamination and soil health

(3) Field crop and vegetable contamination during production

(4) Food safety and human health

(5) Remediation of contaminated soils

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SCHEME

14:00-16:30, November 1, 2018

Location：Lecture Hall, 11th Floor (翰苑大厦 11 楼报告厅)

International Workshop on Soil Health

To be held in conjunction with

International Symposium on Agro-Environmental Quality (ISAEQ) ,

Nanjing, China, November 2-5, 2018

Overview and Rationale

This workshop will be led by Professor Richard DICK (the Ohio State University, USA, President

of Soil Science Society of America) and Professor Yanzheng GAO (Nanjing Agricultural University,

China) to stimulate discussion and future development on soil health.

Worldwide, humans have developed much greater awareness of soils and their importance, which

is well captured by the word of “Soil Health”. However, it is still unclear what soil health means by its

definition and how it will be applied to address environmental and agricultural challenges. Clearly it

includes agricultural production, soil pollution and remediation, and soil management and conservation,

which all impact the measures of soil health. The purpose of this workshop is devoted to current status

of soil health and seeks more opportunities by brainstorming from the participants.

Plenary Session

Chair: Yanzheng Gao (Nanjing Agricultural University, China)

Time Speaker Title

14:00-14:10

Yanzheng Gao

Nanjing Agricultural University,

China

A brief introduction of the workshop in

conjunction with the symposium

14:10-14:40

Keynote

Presentation

Richard Dick

The Ohio State University, USA,

President of the Soil Science

Society of America

Soil health: Can it be defined? Can it be

measured?

14:40-14:55 Hui Li

Michigan State University, USA

Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in soil

and water

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14:55-15:10 Wei Zhang

Michigan State University, USA

Soil pollution, food safety and human health

in the one health era

15:10-15:25

Sabrina Sharmeen Alam

University of Chittagong,

Bangladesh

Heavy metal contamination of soils from

industrial and municipal sites in Chittagong

city, Bangladesh

15:25-15:40

Zhao Ma

Nanjing Agricultural University,

China

A fast and high-throughput method to detect

tetracyclines in soils by whole-cell biosensors

15:40-16:20 Discussion. Audience questions and comments are welcomed.

November 2, 2018.

10:00-23:00, Registration. Lobby, 1st Floor (1 楼大厅).

November 3, 2018

Location：Lecture Hall, 11th Floor (11 楼报告厅)

Opening Ceremony

Chair: Yanzheng Gao (Nanjing Agricultural University, China)

Plenary Session

Chair: Hui Li (Michigan State University, USA)

Time Speaker Title

9:15-9:40

Keynote Presentation

Brad Day

Michigan State University,

USA

Battling the perfect storm: The impact of

environment and pathogens on plant health

and agricultural ecosystems

9:40-10:05


Qiaoyun Huang

Huazhong Agricultural

University, China

Bacteria-minerals interactions and their

potentials in immobilization of heavy metals

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10:05-10:25 Xingmei Liu

Zhejiang University, China

Risk-based insights from regional scale view

towards the changes of PAHs in rice paddies

with environmental policy adjustment

Coffee Break and Poster Presentation

Plenary Session

Chairs: Qiaoyun Huang (Huazhong Agricultural University, China)

Brad Day (Michigan State University, USA)

10:40-11:05


Joel Pedersen

University of Wisconsin-

Madison, USA

Plant-driven processes influencing the

accumulation of wastewater-derived organic

contaminants

11:05-11:30


Cheng Gu

Nanjing University, China

Transformation of organic contaminants on

clay mineral surfaces

11:30-11:50

Langping Wu

Helmholtz Centre for

Environmental Research-

UFZ, Germany

Characterizing the natural attenuation of

organophosphorus pesticide by hydrolysis at a

contaminated site using compound-specific

isotope analysis

11:50-12:10

Yanzheng Gao

Nanjing Agricultural

University, China

PAH-degrading endophytes: Tackling plant

contamination


Plenary Session

Chairs: Alistair Boxall (University of York, UK)

Aki Sinkkonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Time Speaker Title

14:00-14:25


David Laird

Iowa State University, USA

Optimizing biochars for adsorption of

environmental contaminant

14:25-14:50


Lee A. Newman

SUNY-College of

Environmental Science and

Forestry, USA

Effect of 1,8 Naphthalic anhydride on nickel

tolerance in corn (Zea mays) seedlings and

the induction of metal tolerance cellular

strategies

14:50-15:10 Fengshou Dong

Institute of Plant Protection,

Exposure characteristics of neonicotinoid

imidacloprid in urine of Chinese human

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Chinese Academy of

Agricultural Sciences, China

proximity to agricultural orchard

15:10-15:30

Md. Shoffikul Islam


Bangladesh

Phytoextraction efficiency of cadmium and

zinc by arum [Colocasia esculenta (L.),

Schott] grown in soil

15:30-15:45

Jian Wang


University, China

The contamination and human health risk of

PAH-containing biochar utilization in soil-

plant system: Based on experimental and

literature study


Plenary Session

Chairs: Chris D. Collins (The University of Reading, UK)

Hans-Hermann Richnow (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Germany)

16:00-16:25


Jiaguo Qi


USA

A modeling approach to address complex

water-energy-food nexus issues: Case studies

in Mekong and Ili-Balkhash River Basins

16:25-16:50


Kang Xia

Virginia Tech, USA

Flow of antimicrobial resistant elements in

manure-amended fields

16:50-17:10

Wei Zhang


USA

Physical, chemical and biological control on

antibiotic resistance in soil, water and plant

systems

17:10-17:30 Jonathan Brett Sallach

University of York, UK

Effects on the soil-plant system resulting

from exposure to an environmentally relevant

mixture of antibiotics via irrigation with

treated wastewater

17:30-17:45

Xiaojie Hu


University, China

Plasmid binding to metal oxide nanoparticles

inhibited lateral transfer of antibiotic

resistance genes

17:45-18:00

Bing Yang


University, China

Enzymatic degradation of extracellular DNA

exposed to chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-

methyl in aqueous system

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November 4, 2018


Plenary Session

Chairs: Joel Pedersen (University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA)

Kang Xia (Virginia Tech, USA)

Time Speaker Title

8:30-8:55


Alistair Boxall

University of York, UK

Fate and uptake of nanopesticides in soil

systems: implications for environmental risk

assessment

8:55-9:20


Hans-Hermann Richnow

Helmholtz Centre for

Environmental Research-

UFZ, Germany

The fate of pesticides in soil, sediments,

ground water and food webs analysed by

multi-element isotope fractionation

9:20-9:40 Haiyan Wang

Zhejiang University, China

Superabsorbent hydrogels coating increased

degradation and decreased bound residues

formation of fungicidal carbendazim in soil

9:40-10:00 Xinying Zhang

Shanghai University, China

Cornstalk biochar promoting cadmium

accumulation of Beta vulgaris Linn. var. cicla

L. in farmland soil

10:00-10:20

Roslund Marja

University of Helsinki,

Finland

PAH pollution, environmental microbiota and

health


Plenary Session

Chairs: Cliff T. Johnston (Purdue University, USA)

Lee A. Newman (SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA)

10:35-11:00


Chris D. Collins

University of Reading, UK Quantifying human exposure to soil pollution

11:00-11:25


Aki Sinkkonen

University of Helsinki,

Finland

Associations between pollution and

environmental and human microbiota in

kindergartens-are there health effects?

11:25-11:45

Chao Chai

Qingdao Agricultural

University, China

Contamination of polycyclic aromatic

hydrocarbons in agricultural soil in Shandong

Province and microbial degradation combined

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with humic acids and spent mushroom

substrate

11:45-12:00

Chao Lu


University, China

Structural dynamics analysis of a PAH-

degrading bacterial community enriched from

contaminated agriculture soil and its

mechanism study for soil remediation


Plenary Session

Chairs: David Laird (Iowa State University, USA)

Cheng Gu (Nanjing University, China)

Time Speaker Title

14:00-14:25


Cliff T. Johnston

Purdue University, USA

Probing the hydrophobic / hydrophilic nature

of clay minerals at the mesoscale scale

14:25-14:50


Hui Li


USA

Mechanism of uptake and accumulation of

pharmaceuticals by lettuce from water

14:50-15:10 Laura Carter

University Leeds, UK

Uptake of active pharmaceutical ingredients

(APIs) in plants: Metabolism and toxicity

15:10-15:30

Sabrina Sharmeen Alam


Bangladesh

Evaluating and enhancing smectite's

efficiency to remove aflatoxins from corn

fermentation solution

15:30-15:45

Shunyao Li


University, China

Metabolism of 17β-estradiol by

Novosphingobium sp. ES2-1 as probed via

high-resolution mass spectrometry combined

with 13C3-labeling


16:00-18:00 Free Time (Collaboration discussion; Campus and laboratory tour)

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Biography of Speakers

Sabrina Sharmeen Alam:

Dr. Sabrina Sharmeen Alam is an Assistant Professor in the department of Soil Science, Chittagong

University, Bangladesh. She graduated from this department in 2009. In December 2016, She earned

her Ph.D. degree from the department of Soil & Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA. Her PhD

thesis is entitled “Evaluate and enhance smectite’s efficiency in removing aflatoxins from corn

fermentation solution”. During studying at Texas A&M, she became familiar with the interaction

between bentonite clays (smectites are the major minerals) and mycotoxins through the use of X-ray

diffractometer, Fourier Transmission Infrared, and UV-vis spectrophotometer. She presented my

research findings in the Clay Minerals Society (CMS) conferences, and annual meeting of the Soil

Science Society of America (SSSA). Currently, she have ongoing projects on the use of bentonites for

removal of antibiotics, heavy metals, industrial dyes from water. Apart from bentonites, she is also

interested in investigating the conventional and emerging contaminants such as antibiotics, polycyclic

aromatic hydrocarbons, and other hazardous substances in the environments. To carry out these kinds

of projects, she is looking for collaboration for partnering with foreign scientists.

Alistair Boxall:

Dr. Boxall is Professor in Environmental Science in the

Environment Department at the University of York.

Alistair’s research focuses on understanding emerging and

future ecological and health risks posed by chemical

contaminants (veterinary and human pharmaceuticals,

nanomaterials and pesticides) in the natural environment.

Alistair is a past member of the Defra Hazardous

Substances Advisory Committee and the Veterinary Products Committee. He was Coordinator of the

3.5 M Euro CAPACITIE project on pollution monitoring in cities; academic coordinator of the 10.3 M

Euro iPiE project on intelligence-led assessment of pharmaceuticals in the environment; and leads the

York City Environment Observatory initiative. He regularly advises national and international

organisations on issues relating to chemical impacts on the environment and has published extensively

on the topic of chemical risks in the environment.

Laura J. Carter:

Dr. Carter is a University Academic Fellow in Soil Science at the University of Leeds, UK. Laura’s

research focuses on understanding the fate and uptake of emerging contaminants in the natural

environment, with particular focus on soil-plant systems. Through laboratory and field scale

experiments, Laura is exploring the impacts of emerging contaminants on soil and plant health. Since

completing her PhD at The University of York under supervision of Professor Alistair Boxall, Laura has

spent time as a Risk Assessor at Unilever’s Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC) and as

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a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation

(CSIRO) in Adelaide, Australia where she investigated the biological effects of pharmaceutical uptake

into plants. Most recently, Laura has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of York,

UK where she contributed to the European iPiE project on the intelligent assessment of

pharmaceuticals in the environment, developing soil sorption models and monitoring pharmaceuticals

in river catchments. Laura is currently co-supervising PhD projects investigating the fate and uptake of

pharmaceuticals in terrestrial and aquatic systems whilst taking on an active role on the steering

committee for the SETAC Pharmaceutical Global Interest Group.

Chao Chai:

Dr. Chai is a professor and associate dean in College of Resources and Environmental Sciences,

Qingdao Agricultural University, China. She received BS degree in Harbin Institute of Technology, and

MS degree in Northeast Agricultural University, China. In 2006, she graduated from Institute of

Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and earned Doctoral degree majoring in Environmental

Science. Her projects focus on fate, bioaccumulation, and risk assessment of persistent organic

pollutants in the environment, and she is also interested in eutrophication and phytoplankton. She has

completed or undergoing several projects, including comprehensive remediation of polycyclic aromatic

hydrocarbons in agricultural soil and crops of greenhouse in Shandong province, contamination and

risk assessment of plasticizers in agricultural environments and crops, phthalate in the soil and

groundwater of greenhouse cropping system, effects and mechanism of nutritional level on fate of

polybrominated diphenyl ethers in bays, and effect and mechanism of eutrophication on

bioaccumulation of polybrominated diphenyl ethers by marine algae. Prof. Chai has published over 50

scientific papers in peer reviewed international journals.

Chris Collins:

Professor Chris Collins is Chair of Environmental Chemistry at the

University of Reading. He is the Natural Environment Research

Council Soils Coordinator overseeing a £10 million research

investment to improve our understanding of how soils resist, recover

and adapt to land use and climate change. Professor Collins chairs

the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Hazardous

Substances Advisory Committee providing expert advice to the UK

Government on how to protect the environment, and human health

via the environment from chemicals. He is also a member of the UK

Natural Capital Committee which supports the implementation of England’s 25yr Environment Plan.

His research focuses on determining the factors controlling exposure of biota to environmental

pollution. This combines experimental data with process description models and development of

assessment tools. Recent research focuses on the role of soil organic carbon in modifying pollutant

exposure and the parallels between pollutant and carbon cycling in soils using high level analytical

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techniques such as mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance. This work has been supported

by a wide range of funders across industry, government and research bodies.

Brad Day:

Professor Brad Day is a molecular plant biologist, with research interests in the area of plant response

to biotic and abiotic stress. Over the past 20 years, his research has contributed towards a mechanistic

understanding of how plants interact with their environment, including defining the processes

associated with pathogen perception, defense regulation, and uncovering the role of basic physiological

processes in the activation of immunity. More recently, his research interests have focused on the role

of the plant actin cytoskeleton as a platform for surveillance and immune signaling. As a molecular

plant pathologist, Professor Day has contributed to the advancement of the field of plant pathology. He

has co-authored more than 70 publications, received numerous competitive grants from the NSF, the

USDA, and most recently the NIH.

Richard P. Dick:

Dr. Dick is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Soil Microbial Ecology in the School of

Environment and Natural Resources at the Ohio State University, President of the Soil Science Society

of America, and Editor-in-Chief of Applied Soil Ecology. His research has been supported by > $11.4

million in grants and contracts including, competitive grants from US Environmental Protection

Agency, US National Science Foundation, USAID, and USDA. Dr. Dick has authored or co-authored

133+ refereed journal articles, 15 invited book chapters, and 2 books as the editor in chief. A major

impact has been in soil enzymology research with the paper by Bandick and Dick (1999, Soil Biol

Biochem 31: 1471-1479), cited > 619 times to date according to Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge;

and “Soil enzyme activities as integrative indicators of soil health” (Dick, 1997. In Biological

indicators of soil health by Pankhurst et al., eds.), which has been cited 258 times. Several other papers

on microbial ecology have been cited >100 times. More recently, under his direction and leadership, a

comprehensive soil enzyme methods book was published in 2012 by the Soil Science Society of

America. With NSF funding ($4.4 million) and under Dr. Dick’s leadership, a team of African and US

scientists discovered rhizosphere hydrologic lift of water by shrubs; which enables the functioning and

diversity of microbial communities to drive biochemical processes over the extended dry season of the

semi-arid Sahel. This research has changed the paradigm of how arid semi-arid ecosystems function,

ecologically and has major implications for Sahalian agriculture by utilizing inter-cropped shrubs as

nutrient/water reservoirs and to remediate degraded landscapes (28+ refereed papers).

Fengshou Dong:

Professor Dong, Doctoral supervisor, Chief Scientist of National Key Research and Development

Project, Member of National pesticide residue standard review committee, Secretary General of

Pesticide residue and environmental safety committee of China plant protection society, deputy director

of pesticide department, Institute of Plant Protection. In 2015, was involved to be a member of Chinese

delegation in a Food safety and Security Workshop which preceded the China-New Zealand Joint

Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation. From 2016 to 2017, as a visiting

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scholar in Environmental department, University of California, Riverside, the United States. Peer

reviewer of many international scientific Journal, like Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry,

Environmental Science & Technology, Food Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography A, etc. and invited

lecturer in international conferences. Have published more than 40 papers as first author or

corresponding author.

Yanzheng Gao:

Dr. Gao is a professor of Agro-environmental Sciences and

Engineering and Director of Institute of Organic Contaminant

Control and Soil Remediation, Nanjing Agricultural University.

He graduated from Zhejiang University and was awarded a Ph.D.

degree in June, 2004. He was a visiting scholar and postdoctor in

Hongkong Baptist University (February to May, 2005), the

University of Reading, UK (August 2007 to July 2008), and

Michigan State University, USA (April 2013 to May 2014). His main research program focuses on the

organic contaminant control and soil remediation. He has published 92 peer-reviewed papers in SCI

journals, and 18 papers published in journals with impact factor > 6.0. He has served as the editor-in-

chief of two books. He was selected to the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in the

Universities of China, and currently serves as subject editor of Journal of Soils and Sediments, as an

editorial board member of Environment International, Chemosphere, and Scientific Reports, and as the

Deputy Director of Soil Chemistry Committee, Soil Science Society of China.

Cheng Gu:

Dr. Gu is a professor in School of the Environment at Nanjing University. He is the associated editor of

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology and in the editorial board of Journal of

Environmental Chemistry. Professor Gu’s research focuses on the transformation of environmental

organic contaminants on natural mineral surfaces. He is also interested in synthesizing environmentally

friendly nano-materials using minerals as the template. Professor Gu has published over 60 scientific

papers on high impact journals, and these papers have been cited more than 1200 times. He currently

held 10 national and international patents.

Qiaoyun Huang:

Dr. Huang is a Changjiang Scholar Professor, Distinguished Young

Scholar of NSFC, professor of environmental microbiology at Faculty

of Resources and Environment, Vice Director of State Key Laboratory

of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University,

China. His research focuses on the interfacial processes of soil mineral-

organic matter-microorganism interactions and environmental impacts.

He has published more than 160 SCI papers with a h-index of 29. He is

currently the vice chairman of Commission 2.5 of International Union

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of Soil Sciences, and the executive member of the Advisory Committee of International Society for

Environmental Biogeochemistry. He was the Chairman of the 4th International Symposium on

Interactions of Soil Minerals with Organic Matter and Microorganisms and the 21st International

Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry. He serves as the editorial member for several

international journals such as Applied Soil Ecology, Journal of Soils & Sediments, Frontier in

Microbiology and Geomicrobiology Journal.

Md. Shoffikul Islam:

Dr. Md. Shoffikul Islam is an Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Soil Science,

University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He graduated from the Department of Soil, Water and

Environment, University of Dhaka in 2003. In March 2013, He earned his Doctoral degree from the

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Saga University, Japan supported by Japanese Government

(Monbukagakusho) Scholarship. His PhD thesis was entitled “Development and evaluation of new

hydroxyapatite-like compounds derived from oyster shell for the stabilization of cadmium in soil”. The

findings of the research were published in peer reviewed international journals and were presented in

Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (JSSSPN) conferences held in Kagoshima

University and Kyushu University, Japan. After returning to Bangladesh, He has completed several

projects mostly on chemical remediation and phytoremediation of metal/metalloid-contaminated soil

and water. The findings of the projects were published in peer reviewed international journals and were

also presented in national and international conferences (20th WCSS, Jeju, Korea, 2014; 13th ICOBTE,

Fukuoka, Japan, 2015). Currently, he has ongoing project on the metal remediation and recovery by

microbial fuel cells which has attracted attention recently as a promising technology for the

simultaneous treatment of soil and wastewater and recovery of electricity.

Cliff Johnston:

Dr. Johnston is a Professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry and Earth,

Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Purdue and has taught at Purdue and

the University of Florida for over 33 years. His research focus is on study

the molecular mechanisms of how contaminants bind to soil surfaces. He is

an experimentalist and works closely with researchers using computational

methods to predict behavior and more recently with environmental

toxicologists to assess contaminant bioavailability. He works on a broad

spectrum of problems involving both organic and inorganic contaminants

and their interactions with clay minerals, hydrous oxides, soil organic

matter, biochar, and activated carbon.

David Laird:

Dr. Laird is a Professor of Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, USA. Service to

professional scientific societies: Editor-in-Chief Geoderma (2017-present), President and Vice-

President of the Clay Minerals Society (2011-12), board of directors for the Clay Mineral Society

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(2002-2006), chair of the Soil Chemistry Division of the Soil Science society of America (2008),

scientific advisory board for the International Biochar Initiative, Associate Editor and on the editorial

board for the Soil Science Society America Journal (1997-2002), Associate Editor and on the editorial

board Clays and Clay Minerals (1996-2007). Major Awards: 2017 & 2018 Highly Cited Researcher,

Clarivate Analytics (https://clarivate.com/hcr/). 2017, Soil Science Research Award, Soil Science

Society of America. 2008, Elected Fellow, Soil Science Society of America. 2007, Elected Fellow,

American Society of Agronomy. 2002, Raymond and Mary Baker Agronomic Excellence Award, Iowa

State University. 2000, Marion L. & Chrystie M. Jackson Soil Science Award, Soil Science Society of

America. Publications: Total of 134 refereed journal articles and book chapters. Google Scholar

citations = 12,574; h-index = 49.

Hui Li:

Dr. Li is Professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry at Michigan State University. He received BS and

MS degrees in Environmental Chemistry from Nanjing University, China, and Ph.D. degree in

Environmental Soil Chemistry from Purdue University, USA. Dr. Li’s research program focuses on

fate, transformation, bioavailability and impacts of pharmaceuticals, persistent organic contaminants

and pesticides in the environment, understanding of fundamental environmental processes at molecular

scale, plant uptake of organic contaminants, and development of innovative environmental remediation

technology. His research program has been continuously funded by USDA, NIH and NSF. He has

published > 100 peer-review journal papers in environmental science and soil science journals. These

papers have been cited > 3700 times with an H-index of 35. Dr. Li served as associate editor of Journal

of Environmental Quality, and was awarded as an outstanding editor of the journal (2013). Dr. Li

served as chair of Soils and Environmental Quality Division, Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

in 2017. He has received Jackson Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy Award from SSSA in 2017, and was

elected to SSSA Fellow in 2018.

Xingmei Liu:

Dr. Liu is an associate professor in College of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Zhejiang

University, China. She received her doctorate degree at Zhejiang University, China. And she had been a

Postdoc in University of California, Davis, USA (2006-2008), a Visiting Scholar at Michigan State

University (2013-2014). She has been committed to the research of soil environmental quality and food

safety, especially the regional spatial process simulation of environmental pollutants including heavy

metals for more than ten years. Dr. Liu has published over 60 SCI papers in the journals of

Environmental Pollution, Geoderma, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Science of the Total

Environment, and etc., with H index of 24. She has been PIs for 12 national and provincial research

projects. Dr. Liu was awarded as the author of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars

of China, the Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Zhejiang Province, and

the Excellent Young Scholar of Soil Science Society of China (SSSC).

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Lee Newman:

Dr. Newman, Associate Professor in Environmental and Forest Biology, the State University of New

York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), Syracuse, NY, has been working in the

field of phytoremediation since 1992, and has published several seminal papers in the field of TCE

metabolism in poplars. She is currently Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of

Phytoremediation and is the founding president of the International Phytotechnology Society. She has

worked both in the field, installing phytoremediation systems on Superfund sites, and has also lead the

research funded by NIEHS to find plant candidate plant genes that may be involved in metabolism of

xenobiotic compounds. As part of her work, she has lead and participated in several community-based

reviews of proposed sites, and lead teams evaluating the potential reuse of sites, and the best options to

reaching clean up goals. Beyond phytoremediation, current research projects include examining

nanoparticle toxicity in plants, use of hyperspectral imaging of plants to track contaminant movement

in the environment, how endophytes impact plant growth and disease resistances, use of living walls to

treat wastewater, and horticultural therapy to improve patient outcomes in hospital settings. In addition

to her research, Dr. Newman is also the coordinator of the Environmental Health major at ESF and is

chair of the college Committee on Research.

Joel A. Pedersen:

Dr. Pedersen is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison

holding appointments in the Departments of Soil Science, Chemistry, and Civil & Environmental

Engineering. He is a core faculty member of two interdepartmental programs: Environmental

Chemistry & Technology and Molecular & Environmental Toxicology. He serves as a Research Theme

Leader in the NSF-funded Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. Professor Pedersen earned his B.S.

degree at University of California Irvine, his M.S. degree at California Institute of Technology, and his

doctorate at University of California Los Angeles. Professor Pedersen has been a visiting professor at

the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich (2010-2011) and at McGill University in

Montréal (2018-2019). The Pedersen research group focuses primarily on environmental interfacial

chemistry, emphasizing investigation of interfacial processes affecting the behavior of nanoparticles,

organic microcontaminants, and biomacromolecules in natural and engineered environments. Current

research topics include molecular-scale interactions of biomolecules with engineered nanoparticles, the

behavior of pharmaceutically active compounds in aquatic and terrestrial environments, the

development of advanced treatment processes, and the environmental transmission of prion diseases.

Prof. Pedersen received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award and is the immediate past

recipient of the Rothermel Bascom Professorship in Soil Science. He is currently as Associate Editor

for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Environmental Science: Nano.

Jiaguo Qi:

With a major in Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Dr. Qi had a MSc. and PhD degree from the

University of Arizona. He worked as Physical Scientist at the US Water Conservation Laboratory from

1993-1998 and joined the Department of Geography at Michigan State University in 1998. Dr. Jiaguo

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Qi serves as the Director of the Center for Global Change & Earth Observations, Director of the

Environmental Science and Policy Programs and Director of the Office of China Programs at Michigan

State University. He has collaborated broadly with many institutions in China and Southeast Asia,

including the development of the Asia Hub Initiative with Nanjing Agricultural University and

institutions in Southeast Asia countries. He also serves as the MAIRS Project Scientist for NASA

LCLUC Program, co-director of the GLP North America Nodal Office, Science Steering Committee

members of the MAIRS-FE and Future Earth NEXUS KAN SSC member, where he promotes water-

energy-food nexus approaches to address broad issues related to sustainable development goals.

As a faculty and researcher, Dr. Qi’s earlier research focused on technical remote sensing, geospatial

technologies and their applications in agriculture and forestry. Recently Dr. Qi focuses on the

integration of geospatial technologies and process-based models to address environmental issues

particularly in developing countries in Africa, Asia and North America. Recently he led a team to

obtain three WEF Nexus related external grants that specifically examine hydropower dams and their

impacts on food, water, and environment in the Lower Mekong and Central Asia, across international

boundaries.

Hans Hermann Richnow:

Dr Richnow is the Head of the Department Isotope Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for

Environmental Research – UFZ. He has published more than 270 articles and book chapters and

belongs to the frequently cited scientist in Germany. In 2018 his h-factor was 49 and his work received

more than 8100 citations (source Web of Science, Thomson Reuters). His key interest and expertise is

related to the development of stable isotope fractionation concepts for tracing chemicals in the

environment. Results of his fundamental research her transferred to applied research for environmental

monitoring and risk assessment also via his company. Next to many national and European research

projects he has acquired grants for the establishment of the Centre for Chemical Microscopy – ProVIS.

He is member of the editorial board of Journal of Contaminant Hydrology and frequent reviewer of

national and international journals. He serves as evaluator for scientitific projects from various funding

agencies (European Community, German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation,

FNR Luxenbourgh, NOW Netherlands, ANR France, NSC Poland, Chinese Academy of Sciences

(CAS) and others). Memberships: European Geoscience Union; Arbeitsgemeinschaft Stabiler Isotope e.

V.; International Society for Microbial Ecology ISME.

Jonathan Brett Sallach:

Dr. Sallach is currently a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of York under the supervision

of Alistair Boxall in the Department of Environment and Geography. Prior to beginning at University

of York, I spent nearly two years at Michigan State University, advised by Stephen A. Boyd, where I

studied the potential sequestration and resultant bioavailability of dioxins by activated carbon used as

sorbent amendments in remedial applications. I came to MSU after completing my Ph.D. in Civil

Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. My dissertation research focused on the fate and

uptake of antibiotics in the soil-plant system. Through my current research project, PHYTOPHARM, I

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am evaluating the potential phytotoxic effects caused by antibiotic exposure to plant health, soil

function, and crop productivity. My goal is to utilize exposure modelling to determine environmentally

relevant antibiotic mixtures and evaluate effects on soils and plants using a combination of novel and

traditional techniques and endpoints. My hope is that this work can be used to inform the agricultural

industry and regulatory bodies to ensure best practices are used to sustain a healthy and productive food

system into the future.

Aki Sinkkonen:

Dr. Sinkkonen is an Adjunct Professor, Principal Investigator, and is in lead of the Nature-Based

Solutions Research Group at University of Helsinki, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences.

Dr. Sinkkonen has explored novel soil remediation strategies for almost twenty years, subjects ranging

from characterization of microbiological changes in polluted environments to patentable remediation

inventions. Since 2015, his research group has been responsible for large cohort studies and performing

proof-of-concept trials that combine environmental and microbial community ecology with medicine

and biosocial and urban planning knowledge for the prevention and cure of immune-mediated diseases.

His team has recently found out that soil pollution changes the abundance of microbial taxa that have

previously been associated with human health, particularly the incidence of immune-mediated diseases.

His presentation at the International Symposium on Agro-Environmental Quality first gives a general

introduction to potential health effects of environmental microbiota in polluted environments, and then

advances the current state of knowledge. Dr. Sinkkonen will present his research group’s latest findings

on how PAH (polyaromatic hydrocarbons) pollution in kindergarten yards is associated with bacterial

communities in surface soil and children’s microbiota. He also discusses technologies that can be used

to prevent or reduce the negative outcomes.

Haiyan Wang:

Dr Wang is an Associate Professor, Distinguished Young Scholar, College of Agriculture and

Biotechnology, Zhejiang University. She holds vice director of Isotope tracer committee for Chinese

Society of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences. Research work are mainly focused on environmental fate and

behavior of exogenous substances including environmental processes (biotic and abiotic

transformation, and plant uptake) of agrochemicals and PPCPs in ecosystems; Metabolism, mode of

action, soil-bound residue and bioavailability of novel pesticides; Application of isotope tracing

techniques in environmental science; Determination, dissipation and possible horizontal transfer of

exogenous genes/their expression products derived from GMP. Dr. Haiyan Wang has published more

than 50 papers on world-recognized journals including Environmental Science & Technology, Journal

of Hazardous Materials, Environmental Pollution, Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry, Science

of the total Environment and so on. She is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Nuclear

Agricultural Sciences and serves as invited peer reviewers for Scientific Reports, Journal of Hazardous

Materials, Environmental Pollution, and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Langping Wu:

Dr. Wu is currently employed as a research scientist by the Department of Isotope Biogeochemistry at

the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. She received her Bachelor degree in

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Environmental Engineering from the University of Science and Technology Beijing in June 2011, and

in January 2014 she received her Master degree in Environmental Engineering as a joint master student

at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (China) and the University of Nova Gorica

(Slovenia). Her PhD research work was supervised by Dr. Hans H. Richnow at the Helmholtz Centre

for Environmental Research – UFZ, and Ph.D. degree was received in Environmental Science from the

Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany) in September 2018. Her research interests include

the characterization of transformation processes of organic contaminants by multi-element isotope

analysis – developing methods and proving concepts; Quantification of in situ degradation using multi-

element isotope fractionation patterns.

Kang Xia:

Dr. Xia is a professor in Environmental Chemistry in the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences

at Virginia Tech. USA. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching programs are focused on: 1)

environmental occurrence and fate of anthropogenic organic chemicals and their impact on

environmental and human health; 2) Analytical method development for organic chemicals in various

complex environmental matrixes; 3) Wastewater treatment technologies for resource recovery and

reuse; and 4) biogeochemistry of natural organic matter and its impact on terrestrial carbon, nitrogen,

and phosphorus dynamics. Over the past 20 years Dr. Xia has worked with collaborators from a diverse

academic, government, and industry backgrounds on various environmental related projects. She has

obtained, as principle investigator and co-principle investigator, close to $10 million competitive

research funding from state, federal, and international funding agencies. She has taught 12 different

environmental science related undergraduate and graduate courses. Dr. Xia has authored or co-authored

200 professional publications, including 57 peer-reviewed journal articles, 5 book chapters, 20 invited

presentations, and 118 conference presentation abstracts.

Xinying Zhang:

Dr. Zhang is a lecturer of environmental engineering at the Shanghai University School of

Environmental and Chemical Engineering. She earned her Ph.D. and M.D. from the Shanghai

University and Xiangtan University, respectively. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the

Shanghai University School of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Zhang Xinying joined the

Shanghai University faculty in 2015. Her research focuses on the phytoremediation technology of

heavy metal and organic polluted farmland soils, oil and water separation materials. Phytoremediation

is a safe and effective remediation method to farmland soil. She is exploring phytoremediation

reinforcement measures and the mechanisms involved to enhance remediation efficiency. Two funds

are available to support this research. She has published more than 40 SCI papers in international

journals including J Hazard Mater, Sci Total Environ, J Clean Prod, Environ Pollut, Chemosphere,

Environ Sci Pollut Res, etc.

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Wei Zhang:

Dr. Zhang is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Soil

Physics at Michigan State University (MSU), USA. He received

his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from Cornell

University in 2010, his MS degree in Biosystems Engineering

from Oklahoma State University in 2006, and his bachelor’s

degree in Environmental Chemistry from Nanjing University in

2000. Wei is broadly interested in the quality and sustainability

of soil and water resources, and recently focuses on

environmental processes and impacts of emerging contaminants

(antibiotics, engineered nanoparticles and emerging microbial pathogens) in soil, water and plant

systems. His research is primarily supported by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other

funding agencies. Wei has published 54 peer-reviewed articles in premier journals in environmental

science such as Environmental Science & Technology (11 papers), and Water Research (7 papers), and

given over 35 invited talks and over 75 conference presentations. His publications have been cited over

1300 times, with an H-index of 20. Wei currently serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of

Environmental Quality, and Canadian Journal of Soil Science, and as a Guest Editor for Vadose Zone

Journal. He previously received the USDA New Investigator Award, US National Research Council

Research Associateship Award, and Cornell Liu Memorial Award.

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