BA Astrophysics, University of California Berkeley, USA
BS Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, USA
PhD Biological Science, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA

Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research, JAMSTEC, Japan
Institute for Extra-cutting-edge Science and Technology Avant-garde Research (X-star), JAMSTEC, Japan
Department of Ecology & Environmental Studies, The Water School, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA

1)Environmental microbiology：
环境微生物学，研究海洋环境中的微生物群落结构、动态，及其与环境之间的相互作用关系。

2)Deep life：
深部生命，聚焦于地球深部生物圈中的生命的研究，尝试探究深部的能量流、温度、压力等因子如何确定生命的极限、深部微生物群落组成及分布模式，探索深部生物圈的多样性与功能、深部生命与地表生命之间的相互作用关系及其参与的元素循环。

3)Environmental virology：
环境病毒学，病毒是地球上最丰富和基因最多样化的生物实体，是影响生物地球化学循环和生态系统动力学遗传多样性的主要载体，目前为止，从深海环境中检测和分离识别出的病毒种类依然很少，它们在环境中所发挥的作用仍然需要进一步的研究。通过采取新的分析和检测技术，可以从海洋环境中分离和鉴定新的深海病毒，并进一步研究其所发挥的功能。

4)Biogeochemistry：
生物地球化学，主要聚焦深部生物圈，研究深部生物圈在生物有机体参与下所发生的地球化学过程。

5)Astrobiology：
天体生物学。研究地球上以及宇宙中的生命起源、生物演化、分布及未来发展。已发现的深部生命可存在于高温，低氧，高盐，高压等极端环境中，这为间接研究早期生命形态和地球环境演化提供了窗口，也为探究异星球上生物生存条件提供了宝贵的研究材料。

2022 Virus Origins and the Origin of Life
D Pan
Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life

2021 Deep sea sediments associated with cold seeps are a subsurface reservoir of viral diversity
Z Li, D Pan, G Wei, W Pi, C Zhang, JH Wang, Y Peng, L Zhang, Y Wang, ... X Dong
The ISME Journal

2021 An Advanced Protocol for the Quantification of Marine Sediment Viruses via Flow Cytometry
ME Heinrichs, D De Corte, B Engelen, D Pan
Viruses

2020 Temperature limits to deep subseafloor life in the Nankai Trough subduction zone
VB Heuer, F Inagaki, Y Morono, Y Kubo, AJ Spivack, B Viehweger, ...
Science

2019 An improved method for extracting viruses from sediment: detection of far more viruses in the subseafloor than previously reported
D Pan, Y Morono, F Inagaki, K Takai
Frontiers in microbiology

2018 Uranium Retention in a Bioreduced Region of an Alluvial Aquifer Induced by the Influx of Dissolved Oxygen
D Pan, KH Williams, MJ Robbins, KA Weber
Environmental science & technology

2017 Abundance and distribution of microbial cells and viruses in an alluvial aquifer
D Pan, J Nolan, KH Williams, MJ Robbins, KA Weber
Frontiers in microbiology

2014 Correlation between viral production and carbon mineralization under nitrate-reducing conditions in aquifer sediment
D Pan, R Watson, D Wang, ZH Tan, DD Snow, KA Weber
The ISME journal

Science and Technology in Society forum (STS Forum) Future Leader, Kyoto 2017