Yu Deng

I am recruiting a PhD student (admission in 2025) to work on oral microbiome and phage genomics at the Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong. If interested, please contact me. Thank you!

AnniZ Lab at Nanyang Technological University is recruiting one Postdoc and one PhD student with an interest in AI& Microbiology (details at genomiverse.net). If you are interested, please reach out with your CV to anni.zhang@ntu.edu.sg. Thank you :)

What toilets can reveal about COVID, cancer and other health threats. Prof. Tong Zhang @zhangt1968 from University of Hong Kong (HKU), and his colleagues were pioneers of what was fast becoming a popular surveillance method tracking wastewater. nature.com/articles/d4158…

What can you do with 100 @nanopore Promethion flowcells? @liuleitw takes @midasguide #genomedb to the next level 🚀#MEWE2023 #GottaCatchEmAll

Opportunity knocks. We are looking for a tenure-track professor "Complex Systems Science in Microbiome Research". Come and join our Centre @univienna and also become a member of our new Microbiome Cluster of Excellence microplanet.at personalwesen.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user…

qbio 2023 Conference is coming to Shenzhen, China on July 29-August 1! Registration is open: conferences.koushare.com/qbio2023siat Special theme: quantitative synthetic biology Confirmed speakers: Terence Hwa, Chao Tang, Keita Kamino, Matthew Good, Sahand Rahi, Steve Presse, Andre Levchenko...

QMRA of beach water by Nanopore sequencing-based viability-metagenomics absolute quantification. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Global environmental resistome. 1723 metagenomes sampled worldwide analysed on antimicrobial resistance genes. A microbial source tracking model regarding resistome has been developed. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congrats to Dr @yinxiaole and Prof @zhangt1968 for the publication of the resistome profiling tool ARGs OAP version 3 at @Engnieering. #AMR #Bioinformatics #Reistome ARGs-OAP v3.0: Antibiotic-Resistance Gene Database Curation and Analys... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It is exciting to be here using only @nanopore long reads to recover complete and high-quality genomes from mock and complex environmental samples. Check out our new manuscript @MicrobiomeJ microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Nanopore long-read-only metagenomics enables complete and high-quality genome reconstruction from mock and complex metagenomes microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Excited to introduce NanoPhase developed by @liuleitw : a fantastic long read only & hybrid assembly tool ! rdcu.be/c1cyf

I will be presenting the work about sulfonamide-subsisting bacteria IN PERSON @ #ISME18 @ISME_microbes ! Come to check out at the poster session PS25 - Microbial ecology of antimicrobial resistance tomorrow~

Wastewater monitoring comes of age | Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

New #bioinformatics tool (COJAC) for early detection and genomic surveillance in #wastewater of #COVID19 SARS-CoV-2 #variants (including of low frequency and potentially emerging variants). Paper in @NatureMicrobiol nature.com/articles/s4156…

Contrats to the many who made this paper possible - it looks fab! @leondanon @kathmoreilly "An analysis of 45 large-scale wastewater sites in England to estimate SARS-CoV-2 community prevalence - Nature Communications" nature.com/articles/s4146…

HK experience of using wastewater for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 circulation: SARS-CoV-2 concentration correlated significantly with the daily case number. SARS-CoV-2 viral load in wastewater reflects the spread of virus in community. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

WBE goes into the TIME Magazine! COVID-19 Variants Can Be Found in Wastewater, Scientists Say | Time time.com/6194539/wastew…

Our paper on single-cell genomic sequencing of the human gut microbiome is now published in Science! Congrats to all of the amazing authors that I am proud to work with: @zheng_wenshan @ejalm @peterjameslu @_e_evans @cdaili @animalkewls and David Weitz science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Use of sewage samples to detect quarantine hotels with COVID-19 patients carrying VOCs. @zhangt1968 @Xiaoqin72262756 @YuDENG0702 Real-time allelic assays of SARS-CoV-2 variants to enhance sewage surv... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…