2021-至今，中国农业大学，生物学院，教授，博士生导师
2015-2021，University of California, Berkeley，Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 博士后

2009-2014，中国农业大学，作物遗传育种专业，博士

本课题组主要聚焦作物微生物组的多样性和功能研究，挖掘微生物组与宿主作物之间的互作关系。综合采用宏基因组、宏转录组、代谢组、分子遗传学和系统生物学等多技术交叉的策略，探索根系、叶际微生物群落对作物生长发育、养分协同以及逆境抗性的生物学功能，挖掘微生物组促进作物生长的潜力。

Sun, J., Lu, F., Luo, Y., Bie, L., Xu, L. ^*, &Wang, Y. ^* (2023). OrthoVenn3: an integrated platform for exploring and visualizing orthologous data across genomes, Nucleic Acids Research. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad313.

Gao, C.^#*, Xu, L.^#, Montoya, L., Madera, M., Hollingsworth, J., Chen, L., Purdom, E., Singan, V., Vogel, J., Hutmacher, R. B., Dahlberg, J. A., Coleman-Derr, D., Lemaux, P. G., &Taylor, J. W.^* (2022). Co-occurrence networks reveal more complexity than community composition in resistance and resilience of microbial communities. Nature Communications. 13(1), 3867.

Xu, L.^*, Dong, Z., Chiniquy, D., Pierroz, G, Deng, S., Gao, C., Diamond, S., Simmons, T., Wipf, H. M-L., Caddell, D., Varoquaux, N., Madera, M. A., Hutmacher, R., Deutschbauer, A., Dahlberg, J. A.; Guerinot, M. L., Purdom, E., Banfield, J. F., Taylor, J. W., Lemaux, P. G., & Coleman-Derr, D.^* (2021). Genome resolved metagenomics reveals role of iron metabolism in drought induced rhizosphere microbiome dynamics, Nature Communications. 12(1), 3209.

Xu, L., Pierroz, G., Wipf, H. M.-L., Gao, C., Taylor, J. W., Lemaux, P. G., & Coleman-Derr, D.^* (2021). Holo-omics for deciphering plant-microbiome interactions. Microbiome. 9(1), 69.

Jia, A.^#, Xu, L.^#, & Wang, Y.^* (2021). Venn diagrams in bioinformatics. Briefings in Bioinformatics. DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab108

Dong, Z.^#, Xu, Z.^#, Xu, L.^#, Galli, M., Gallavotti, A., Dooner, H. K.^*, & Chuck, G.^* (2020). Necrotic upper tips1 mimics heat and drought stress and encodes a protoxylem-specific transcription factor in maize. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117(34): 20908-20919.

Wipf, H. M.-L., Xu, L., Gao, C., Spinner, H. B., Taylor, J., Lemaux, P., Mitchell, J., & Coleman-Derr, D.^* (2020). Agricultural Soil Management Practices Differentially Shape the Bacterial and Fungal Microbiome of Sorghum bicolor. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(5).

Gao, C., Montoya, L., Xu, L., Madera, M., Hollingsworth, J., Purdom, E., Singan, V., Vogel, J., Hutmacher, R. B., Dahlberg, J. A., Coleman-Derr, D., Lemaux, P. G., & Taylor, J. W.^* (2020). Fungal community assembly in drought-stressed sorghum shows stochasticity, selection, and universal ecological dynamics. Nature Communications. 11(1), 34.

Xu, L., & Coleman-Derr, D^*. (2019). Causes and consequences of a conserved bacterial root microbiome response to drought stress. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 49, 1–6.

Xu, L.^#, Dong, Z.^#, Fang, L., Luo, Y., Wei, Z., Guo, H., Zhang, G., Gu, Y. Q., Coleman-Derr, D., Xia, Q., & Wang, Y.^* (2019). OrthoVenn2: a web server for whole-genome comparison and annotation of orthologous clusters across multiple species. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(W1), W52–W58.

Gao, C., Montoya, L., Xu, L., Madera, M., Hollingsworth, J., Purdom, E., Hutmacher, R. B., Dahlberg, J. A., Coleman-Derr, D., Lemaux, P. G., & Taylor, J. W.^* (2019). Strong succession in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. The ISME Journal. 13(1), 214–226.

Varoquaux, N.^#, Cole, B.^#, Gao, C.^#, Pierroz, G., Baker, C. R., Patel, D., Madera, M., Jeffers, T., Hollingsworth, J., Sievert, J., Yoshinaga, Y., Owiti, J. A., Singan, V. R., DeGraaf, S., Xu, L., Blow, M. J., Harrison, M. J., Visel, A., Jansson, C., Niyogi, K. K., Hutmacher R., Coleman-Derr D., Malley R. C.O’; Taylor, J. W., Dahlberg J., Vogel J. P. ^*, Lemaux, P. G.^*, & Elizabeth Purdom^* (2019). Transcriptomic analysis of field-droughted sorghum from seedling to maturity reveals biotic and metabolic responses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116(52): 27124-27136.

Xu, L., Naylor, D., Dong, Z., Simmons, T., Pierroz, G., Hixson, K. K., Kim, Y.-M., Zink, E. M., Engbrecht, K. M., Wang, Y., Gao, C., DeGraaf, S., Madera, M. A., Sievert, J. A., Hollingsworth, J., Birdseye, D., Scheller, H. V., Hutmacher, R., Dahlberg, J., Jansson C., Taylor J. W., Lemaux P. J., & Coleman-Derr, D.^* (2018). Drought delays development of the sorghum root microbiome and enriches for monoderm bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115(18), E4284–E4293.

Dong, Z.^#, Yu, J.^#, Li, H., Huang, W., Xu, L., Zhao, Y., Zhang, T., Xu, W., Jiang, J., Su, Z.^*, & Jin, W.^* (2018). Transcriptional and epigenetic adaptation of maize chromosomes in Oat-Maize addition lines. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(10), 5012–5028.

Wang, Y., Xu, L., Thilmony, R., You, F. M., Gu, Y. Q.^*, & Coleman-Derr, D.^* (2017). PIECE 2.0: an update for the plant gene structure comparison and evolution database. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(D1). 1015–1020.

Wang, Y., Xu, L., Gu, Y. Q., & Coleman-Derr, D.^* (2016). MetaCoMET: a web platform for discovery and visualization of the core microbiome. Bioinformatics. 32(22), 3469–3470.

Xu, L., Zhang, Y., Shao, S., Chen, W., Tan, J., Zhu, M., Zhong, T., Fan, X., & Xu, M.^* (2014). High-resolution mapping and characterization of qRgls2, a major quantitative trait locus involved in maize resistance to gray leaf spot. BMC Plant Biology. 14, 230.