研究方向：
有机污染土壤的微生物修复、有机污染物微生物降解机制、有机污染土壤修复制剂的研发。
在Environ Microbiol、J Hazard Mater、Bioresour Technol、Appl Microbiol Biotechnol、Front Microbiol、Chemosphere、J Agric Food Chem、Microb Cell Fact、Pestic Biochem Physiol 等SCI刊物发表第一作者或通讯作者论文40余篇，作为主要完成人获专利授权10余项。
在研项目：
国家自然科学基金面上项目：强化菌株S113玉米根表成膜与苄嘧磺隆降解的功能菌群构建及机制研究，2023.1-2026.12，主持
江苏省农业科技自主创新资金项目：用于治理复合农药残留污染菜地土壤的固定化菌剂研发，2022.7-2024.6，主持
国家自然科学基金面上项目： Bacillus sp. Za修复氟磺胺草醚污染土壤的过程与机制，2020.1-2023.12，主持
江苏省重点研发计划项目：用于除草剂残留污染农田土壤的微生物肥料研发与应用，2020.12-2023.6，主持
国家自然科学基金面上项目：Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae S113降解玉米根际土壤苄嘧磺隆残留机制的研究 ，2017.1-2020.12，主持
江苏省农业科技自主创新资金重大项目子课题，残留化学品快速降解新技术研发与示范，2018.8-2021.8，主持
近年发表论文：
Qian, Y., Cheng, M., Lai, L., Zhou, J., Zylstra, G. J., & Huang, X*. (2023). ChlOR, a GMC family oxidoreductase that evolved independently from the actinomycete, confers resistance to amphenicol antibiotics. Environmental microbiology, 10.1111/1462-2920.16493.
Tian, Y., Zhao, G., Cheng, M., Lu, L., Zhang, H., & Huang, X*. (2023). A nitroreductase DnrA catalyzes the biotransformation of several diphenyl ether herbicides in Bacillus sp. Za. Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 107(16), 5269–5279.
Zhao, G., Zhou, J., Tian, Y., Chen, Q., Mao, D., Zhu, J., & Huang, X*. (2023). Remediation of fomesafen contaminated soil by Bacillus sp. Za: Degradation pathway, community structure and bioenhanced remediation. Environmental pollution, 336, 122460.
Cheng, M., Qian, Y., Xing, Z.Y., Zylstra, GJ., & Huang X*. (2021). The low-nanomolar 4-nitrobenzoate-responsive repressor PnbX negatively regulates the actinomycete-derived 4-nitrobenzoate-degrading pnb locus. Environmental microbiology, 23(11), 7028–7041.
Zhang, H., Qian, Y.Y., Fan D.D., Tian Y.N., & Huang X*. (2022). Biofilm formed by Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae S113 on root surface mitigates the toxicity of bensulfuron-methyl residues to maize. Environmental pollution, 292,118366.
Huang, X*., & Lu, G. (2021). Editorial: Bioremediation of chemical pesticides polluted soil. Frontiers in microbiology, 12, 682343.
徐铭阳,卢家森,孟献雨,林泽彬,何健,黄星*.多菌灵降解菌djl-6和啶虫脒降解菌D-2固体菌剂的研发.土壤, 2021,53(02):329-335.
Cheng, M., Xing, Z., Lu, L., Chen, F., He, J., & Huang, X*. (2020). A plasmid-based genomic screening system for transcriptional regulators of non-adjacent xenobiotic catabolism genes. Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 104(3), 1163-1174.
Zhang, J., Lu, L., Chen, F., Chen, L., Yin, J., & Huang, X*. (2018). Detoxification of diphenyl ether herbicide lactofen by Bacillus sp. Za and enantioselective characteristics of an esterase gene lacE. Journal of hazardous materials, 341, 336-345.
Zhang, H., Chen, F., Zhao, H. Z., Lu, J. S., Zhao, M. J., Hong, Q., & Huang, X*. (2018). Colonization on cucumber root and enhancement of chlorimuron-ethyl degradation in the rhizosphere by Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae S113 and root exudates. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 66(18), 4584-4591.
授权专利：
黄星, 鲁璐瑶, 商娜, 陈奇峰, 朱建春, 何健, 二苯醚类除草剂硝基还原酶基因dnrA及其硝基还原酶和应用. ZL202110359744.2
黄星, 鲁璐瑶, 蒋建东, 田云龙, 朱昌雄, 一种硝基还原酶基因cnrB及其编码的蛋白和应用, ZL201810171093.2
黄星, 赵梦君, 蒋建东, 田云龙, 朱昌雄, 一株氯霉素降解菌株LMS-CY及其生产的菌剂和应用, ZL201710152873.8
黄星, 宋嫚, 郭素会, 成明根, 张浩, 孙斌, 李强, 一种嗪草酮农药残留降解菌及其生产的菌剂和应用, ZL201610013489.5
黄星, 张晶, 孙斌, 宋嫚, 成明根, 张浩, 李顺鹏, 一种乳氟禾草灵农药残留降解菌及其生产的菌剂, ZL201410841686.7.
