张学英，女，博士，中国科学院动物研究所副研究员，特聘骨干，硕士生导师。

2007年于中国科学院动物研究所获得生态学博士学位，留所工作至今。曾赴美国Albert Einstein College of Medicine、美国Florida State of University、英国University of Aberdeen、俄罗斯Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences等进行访问和合作研究。

动物生理生态学、行为神经内分泌、肠道微生态。主要以我国内蒙草原的小型啮齿动物为研究对象，实验室研究和野外研究相结合，采用生理学、行为学、分子生物学、神经生物学和微生态生理学的技术手段，以小型啮齿动物的环境适应机理为基础科学问题，主要研究兴趣包括：1. 肠—脑轴调控代谢生理和行为的机理；2. 行为神经内分泌及遗传调控机理；3. 亲代应激程序化后代表型的神经及微生态生理机制。通过这些研究，探索和揭示小型哺乳动物对环境适应的行为神经内分泌及微生态生理基础。在National Science Review, Microbiome, the ISME Journal, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, mSystems, Obesity, Hormones and Behavior, Journal of Comparative Physiology B等国际知名期刊发表SCI论文50余篇。

荣获中国动物学会第八届青年科技奖，第六届优秀青年动物生理生态学工作者，第五届优秀青年生态学工作者等荣誉称号。

目前主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、北京市自然科学基金面上项目等。

1. Zhang XY^#*, Khakisahneh S^#, Han SY, Song EJ, Nam YD^* & Kim H^* (2024) Ginseng extracts improve circadian clock gene expression and reduce inflammation directly and indirectly through gut microbiota and PI3K signaling pathway. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 10: 24.
2. Zhang XY^#*, Khakisahneh S^#, Liu W, Zhang X, Zhai W, Cheng J, Speakman JR^* & Wang DH^* (2023) Phylogenetic signal in gut microbial community rather than in rodent metabolic traits. National Science Review 10(10): nwad209.
3. Khakisahneh S^#, Zhang XY^#, Han SY, Song EJ, Nam YD* & Kim H* (2023) Yijung-tang improves thermogenesis and reduces inflammation associated with gut microbiota in hypothyroid rats. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 9: 32.
4. Gao WT, Liu JX, Wang DH, Sun HJ* & Zhang XY* (2023) Melatonin reduced colon inflammation and had no effect on energy metabolism in ageing Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C 273:109731.
5. Zhang XY & Wang DH (2022) Gut microbial community and host thermoregulation in small mammals. Frontiers in Physiology 13: 888324.
6. Nouri Z^#, Zhang XY^#*, Khakisahneh S, Degen AA & Wang DH* (2022) The microbiota-gut-kidney axis mediates host osmoregulation in a small desert mammal. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 8: 16.
7. Khakisahneh S^#, Zhang XY^#*, Nouri Z & Wang DH* (2022) Caecal microbial transplantation attenuates hyperthyroid-induced thermogenesis in Mongolian gerbils. Microbial Biotechnology 15: 817-831.
8. Bo TB^#, Zhang XY^#, Kohl KD, Wen J, Tian SJ & Wang DH* (2020) Coprophagy prevention alters microbiome, metabolism, neurochemistry and cognitive behavior in a small mammal. ISME Journal 14: 2625-2645.
9. Khakisahneh S^#, Zhang XY^#, Nouri Z & Wang DH* (2020) Gut microbiota and host thermoregulation in response to ambient temperature fluctuations. mSystems 5: e00514-20.
10. Bo TB^#, Zhang XY^#*, Wen Jing, Deng K, Qin XW & Wang DH* (2019) The microbiota-gut-brain interaction in regulating host metabolic adaptation to cold in male Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). ISME Journal 13: 3037-3053.
11. Yao W, Liu W, Deng K, Wang Z, Wang DH* & Zhang XY* (2019) GnRH expression and cell proliferation are associated with seasonal breeding and food hoarding in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Hormones and Behavior 112: 42-53.
12. Zhang XY, Sukhchuluun G, Bo TB, Chi QS, Yang JJ, Chen B, Zhang L & Wang DH* (2018) Huddling remodels gut microbiota to reduce energy requirements in a small mammal species during cold exposure. Microbiome 6:103.
13. Zhang XY, Shen W, Liu DZ, Wang DH* (2018) Diversity of thermogenic capacity predicts divergent obesity susceptibility in a wild rodent. Obesity 26: 111-118.
14. Yao W, Wang DH & Zhang XY* (2018) Photoperiodic refractoriness in energy balance: a specific pattern in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Science China: Life Sciences 61: 607-609.
15. Zhang XY, Lou MF, Shen W, Fu RS & Wang DH* (2017) A maternal low-fiber diet predisposes offspring to improved metabolic phenotypes in adulthood in an herbivorous rodent. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 90: 75-84.