Qihao Wu, PhD

Qihao Wu is from Zhejiang Province, China. Qihao started his doctoral research at Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT) in the lab of Dr. Hong Wang. His doctoral research focused on the discovery of marine microbial siderophores. In 2016, during his third year, Qihao pursued a scholarship that allowed him to become a visiting student at the University of Rhode Island in Dr. David Rowley’s lab. During his time there he worked on the discovery of novel secondary metabolites from deep ocean sediment actinomycetes. In 2017, Qihao joined Dr. Yue-Wei Guo’s lab as a joint-training graduate student at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM). At SIMM, he was interested in the chemical ecology of marine sponges and their nudibranch predators. Then, after receiving his Ph.D., Qihao joined Dr. Tim Bugni’s lab in 2019 as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on marine antibiotic and metallophore discovery. Qihao’s research interests in Crawford lab center around the discovery of bioactive small molecules from human microbiomes.