Our research program focuses the development of new sensors for Water-Enviroment-Health nexus and underpinned sensing mechanisms to design and fabricate novel testing devices. more>>
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 Highlights

2023
  • Dr Yang is promoted to Professor of Biosensing and Environmental Health from August 1, 2023. 
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2022
  • Dr Yang is promoted to Senior Lecturer from October 1, 2022. 
 
2021 
2020
  • Our work on paper sensors for COVID-19 in sewage was featured in Science (22.04.2020) & BBC One (22.09.2020)
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2019
2018   ​
2017
  • Zhugen was awarded a UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship (£508K), and he will start his independent research group from December 2017. PhDs, Project Students are very welcome!!! ​
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2013
  • Zhugen was awarded an EU Marie Curie Fellow on the development of community sewage sensors in Bath University after a postdoc a the University of Cambridge (10.2013).

Key Publications

Paper microfluidic sentinel device enables rapid and on-site wastewater surveillance in community settings
Cell Rep Phys Sci 2024, 5,102154.

​Viral metagenome reveals microbial hosts and the associated antibiotic resistome on microplastics 
Nat Water 2024,2, 553–565. 

​Low-cost and rapid sensors for wastewater surveillance at low-resource settings. 
​Nat Water, 2023, 1, 405-407 
         
Microfluidics for Rapid Detection of Live Pathogens 
 Adv Funct Mat, 2023, 2212081. 

Reprogrammed tracrRNAs enable repurposing of RNAs as crRNAs and sequence-specific RNA detection
Nat Commun 2022, 13, 1937.

Paper Device Combining CRISPR/Cas12a and Reverse-Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Wastewater
Environ Sci Technol, 2022, 56, 13245 (IF 11.2)

Paper microfluidic implementation of loop mediated isothermal amplification for early diagnosis of hepatitis C virus
Nat Commun 2021,12, 6994.  
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Paper-based devices as a new tool for rapid and on-site monitoring of ‘superbugs'. 
Environ Sci Technol, 2021, 55, 18, 12133–12135.​

Paper-based nanosensors to evaluate community-wide illicit drug use for wastewater-based epidemiology.
Water Res 2021, 189, 116559 (IF 11.2)

Can a paper-based device trace COVID-19 sources with wastewater-based epidemiology?
Environ Sci Technol, 2020, 54 (7), 3733-3735. (IF 11)
Featured by Science

Opportunities and Challenges for Biosensors and Nanoscale Analytical Tools for Pandemics: COVID-19
ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 7, 7783–7807. 
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An integrated biosensor system with mobile health and wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 pandemic. 
Biosens Bioelectron 2020(169),112617 
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Paper-based microfluidics for DNA diagnostics of malaria in low resource underserved rural communities.
PNAS 2019, 116 (11) 4834- 4842.  

Rapid veterinary diagnosis of bovine reproductive infectious diseases from semen using paper-origami DNA microfluidics. ​
ACS Sens 2018, 3(2), 403-409. media coverage

Graphene nanocomposites modified electrochemical aptamer sensor for rapid and highly sensitive detection of prostate specific antigen.
Biosens Bioelectron 2018, 121, 41-46. (IF 11.2)

Monitoring Genetic Population Biomarkers with wastewater-based epidemiology. 
Anal Chem 2017, 89 (18), 9941–9945. 

A novel DNA biosensor using a ferrocenyl intercalator applied to the potential detection of human population biomarkers in wastewater. 
Environ Sci Technol 2015, 49 (9),5609–5617. 

Community Sewage Sensors for Monitoring Public Health.  
​Environ Sci Technol 2015, 49 (10), 5845–5846.