教育及工作經歷
1981年-1985年，雲南大學生物系，植物學，獲理學學士
1985年-1988年，雲南省微生物研究所，微生物學，獲理學碩士
1995年-1998年，雲南大學生態學和地植物研究所，生態學，獲博士學位
1988年6月-1992年10月，雲南大學生物系（微生物教研室），助教
1992年10月-1996年10月，雲南大學生物系（微生物教研室），講師
1996年10月-1998年10月，雲南大學生物系雲南大學生物系（微生物教研室），副教授
1998年10月—2001年7月 ，雲南大學生物系雲南大學生物系（微生物教研室），教授
2001年7月－雲南大學生物資源保護與利用重點實驗室，教授,博士生導師
主要研究方向
叢枝菌根真菌資源與生態學
深色有隔內生菌的資源及生態學
承擔的主要科研項目
主持完成國家自然科學基金、國家重大基礎研究前期研究專項（973前期專項）、雲南省自然科學基金重點項目、雲南省人才培養專項基金項目各1項，雲南省自然科學基金面上項目3項；參加完成國家科技部攻關項目1項，科技部基礎性科研工作專項課題1項；目前主持在研國家自然科學基金1項。獲雲南省自然科學獎三等獎2項（均排名第一）。
發表的論文
(2005 to date)
1. Tao Li, Zhiwei Zhao. ArbuscularMycorrhizas in a hot and arid ecosystem in southwest China. Applied Soil Ecology, 2005, 29(2): 135-141
2. Linfei Li, Anna Yang, Zhiwei Zhao. Seasonality of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Dark Septate Endophytes in a Grassland Site in Southwest China. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2005, 54(3): 367-373)
3. Li Haiyan, Qing Chen, Zhang Yanli, Zhiwei Zhao. Screening for endophytic fungi with antitumour and antifungal activities from Chinese medicinal plants. World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2005, 21: 1515-1519
4. Tao Li, Zhiwei Zhao. Advances in researches on glomalin produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Chinese Journal of Ecology(生態學雜誌,), 2005, 24(9): 1080-1084
5. Lingfei Li, Anna Yang, Zhiwei Zhao. Seasonal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal spores. Chinese Journal of Ecology(生態學雜誌,), 2005, 24(10): 1155-1158
6. Dandan Zhao, Lingfei Li, Zhwei Zhao. Three new records of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in China. Mycosystema (菌物學報), 2006, 25(1) : 154-156
7. Kai Wang, Zhiwei Zhao. Occurrence of arbuscular mycorrhizas and dark septate endophytes in hydrophytes from lakes and streams in southwest China. International Review of Hydrobiology, 2006, 91(1): 29-37
8. Dandan Zhao, Tao Li, Zhiwei Zhao. Research advances in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-legumes-rhizobia symbiosis. Chinese Journal of Ecology(生態學雜誌,), 2006, 25(3): 327-333
9. Haiyan Li, Lei Wang, Zhiwei Zhao. Endophytic fungi of Jatropha curcas and their antifungal activity. Natural Products Research and Development(天然產物研究與開發),2006, 18(1): 78-80
10. Zhao Dandan, Liang Changchong, Zhiwei Zhao. Arbuscular mycorrhizas in the tributary dry-hot valleys (Puduhe and Xiaojiang) of Jinsha River. Acta Botanica Yunnanica(雲南植物研究), 2006, 28(3): 250-256
11. Kai Wang, Zhiwei Zhao. Arbuscular mycorrhizal status of wetland plants collected from Yunnan. Acta Botanica Yunnanica(雲南植物研究), 2006, 28(4): 349-351
12. Ling-Fei Li， Yan Zhang，Zhi-Wei Zhao. 2007. Arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization and spore density across different land-use types in a hot and arid ecosystem, southwest China. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 170: 419-425
13. Zhao Dandan, Zhao Zhiwei. 2007. Biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the hot-dry valley of the Jinsha River, southwest China. Applied Soil Ecology, 37：118-128
14. Ling-Fei Li, Tao Li, Zhi-Wei Zhao. 2007. Differences of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and community between a cultivated land, an old field, and a never-cultivated field in a hot and arid ecosystem of southwest China. Mycorrhiza, 17 (8)：655-665
15. Li Hai-yan, Liu Li, Wei Da-qiao, Zhao Zhiwei, 2007.Isolation and Screening for endophyteic fungi with antitumor activities from 12 Yunnan medicinal plants. Natural Products Research and Development(天然產物研究與開發), 19（5）：765－771
16. Wang Hai-kun, Li Tao, Zhao Dan-dan, Li Ling-fei, Sha Tao, Zhao Zhi-wei.2007. Cultivation and molecular identification of two bolete strains isolated from Boletus edulis complex of Yunnan, China. Acta Botanica Yunnanica(雲南植物研究),29（5）：559－562
17. Liang Changcong, Xiao Yanping, Zhao Zhiwei, 2007. Arbuscular mycorrhiza and dark septate endophytes in an abandoned lead-zinc mine in Huize, Yunnan, China. Chiese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology (套用與環境生物學報)，13（6）：811-817
18. ShaTao, Qinag Yong, Zhang Han-bo, Ding Hua-sun,ChengLi-zhong, Zhao Zhi-wei.2007. IGS1-RFLP Comparative Analysis of Tricholoma matsutake ( Tricholomataceae ) from Yunnan and Japan. Acta Botanica Yunnanica(雲南植物研究), 29 (2) : 243～246
19. Han-Bo Zhang, Ming-Xia Yang, Wen Shi, Yue Zheng, Tao Sha, Zhi-Wei Zhao, 2007. Bacterial Diversity in Mine Tailings Compared by Cultivation and Cultivation-independent Methods and their Resistance to Lead and Cadmium. Microbial Ecology, 54: 705–712
20. Han-Bo Zhang1, Wen Shi, Ming-Xia Yang, Tao Sha, Zhi-Wei Zhao. 2007. Bacterial Diversity at Different Depths in Lead-Zinc Mine Tailings as Revealed by 16S rRNA Gene Libraries. The Journal of Microbiology, 45: 479-484
21. Li Hai-yan, Huang Rong, Qing Chen, Sha Tao, Li Ling-fei, Zhao Zhi-wei, 2008. Brefeldin A, a cytotoxin from an endophytic fungal strain of Eupenicilium brefedianum isolated from Arisaema erubescens. Natural Products Research and Development(天然產物研究與開發)，20（1）：24－27
22. Xiao Yan-ping, Li Tao, Fei Hong-yun, Zhao Zhi-wei,2008. Species diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Jinding Pb-Zn mining area of Lanping, Yunnan. Mycosystema (菌物學報), 27（5）：652－662
23. Han-Bo Zhang, Ming-Xia Yang, Ran Tu, Lei Gao, Zhi-Wei Zhao.2008. Fungal Communities in Decayingsapwoodandheartwoodof aconiferKeteleeria evelyniana. Current Microbiology, 56: 358–362
24. Tao Sha, Jianping Xu, Malliya Gounder Palanichamy, Han-Bo Zhang,Tao Li, Zhi-Wei Zhao, Ya-Ping Zhang. Genetic diversity of the endemic gourmet mushroom Thelephora ganbajun from southwestern China. Microbiology, 154, 3460–3468
