Xinfeng Han

Identity

·  Associate Professor

·  Peer reviewer of various international journals including Emerging Microbes and Infections, Poultry Science, Food Science and Human Wellness, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Microbial Pathogenesis, etc.  

Education

·  09/2002-07/2008, PhD in Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University

·   09/1998-06/2002, B.S. in Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University

Training and Professional Experience

·  10/2020-now, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural      University

·  10/2019-10/2020, Visiting Scholar, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the United States

·  01/2016-09/2019, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University

·  12/2013-12/2015, Associate Professor, College of Food Science, Sichuan Agricultural University

·  07/2009-11/2013, Lecturer, College of Food Science, Sichuan Agricultural University

Research Interests

· Deeply involved in the research of antimicrobial resistance, genetic diversity and dissemination of enteric pathogenic bacteria, such as non-typhoidal Salmonella and pathogenic Escherichia coli, along the food production chain

Awards and Honors

·   2021, Second Prize of Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award,      Monitoring and Changing Regularity of Bacterial Drug Resistance in Livestock and Poultry and Application of Key Technologies for Controlling Veterinary Drug Residues.

·  2018-2019, Excellent Innovation Team Award of Shennong China Agricultural Science and Technology Award, Innovation Team for Research and Application of Key Technologies for Prevention and Control of Waterfowl Infectious Diseases.

Selected Publications 

·  Characterization of functional B-Cell epitopes at the amino terminus of Shigella invasion plasmid antigen B (IpaB) [J]. Applied Environmental Microbiology,2022.

·  Molecular characterization of antimicrobial resistance and virulence factors of Enterococcus faecalis from ducks at slaughterhouses [J]. Poultry Science, 2022:101646

·  Genetic and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Salmonella spp. isolated from ducks along the slaughter line in southwestern China [J]. Food Control,2020, 107(1): 106805

·  Presence of heavy metal resistance genes in Escherichia coli and Salmonella isolates and analysis of resistance gene structure in E. coli E308[J]. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 2020, 21: 420-426.

·   Prevalence,antimicrobial resistance profiles and virulence-associated genes of thermophilic Campylobacter spp. isolated from ducks in a Chinese slaughterhouse [J]. Food Control, 2019, 104(10):157-166

·  Antimicrobial resistance and resistance genes in Salmonella strains isolated from broiler chickens along the slaughtering process in China [J]. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 2017, 259: 43-51.

·  Prevalence, antimicrobial resistance profiling and genetic diversity of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolated from broilers at slaughter in China [J]. Food Control, 2016, 69(11):160-170.