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News

• We have one PhD opening for UK/EU candidate
• Dr Yang is CoI on NERC-funded National wastewater surveillance program (N-WESP) for COVID-19.​
• The Scientist report our work: Researchers Seek a Simple, Rapid Test for SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage
• Dr Yang was quoted at China Daily: Sewage may offer clues to virus origin​​ ​
• Science magazine features our work on paper sensors for tracing SARS-CoV-19 in sewage. ​

• Welcome Weliang & Qingxin join the group for PhD.

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• A  review paper on nanosensors for COVID-19 was published at ACS Nano - most accessed in June
• Nanosensors for illicit drugs for WBE published at Trends in Analytical Chemistry(TrAC).​

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 Highlights

2020

• Our work on COVID-19 was featured in Science(22.04.2020)

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• Dr Yang was interviewed by BBC to discuss testing  wastewater for early warning COVID-19 with paper device(18 min onward), and [Daily Mail],[Newsweek][Science Daily], [Science Alert], [Yahoo News] etc. (04.2020)

 

• Dr Yang wins Royal Academy of Engineering Frontier Follow-on Grant (£300k). Two PhD studentship available!!! (10.03.2020)

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2019

• Dr Yang relocated to Cranfield University as Lecturer in Sensor Technology, heading a new state-of-the-art sensors lab at Water Science Institute. (04.2019)

2018

• Dr Yang was appointed as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor, UK tenure) at James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow. (04.2018)

 

• Paper-origami device for diagnosis of STI was published in ACS Sensors, and featured by public media [UofG News], [MyScience], [Phys.org], [GaraviGujarat], [India.com], [Business Standard], [Businessworld India],[Outlook India]. (20.02.2018)

2017

• Zhugen was awarded a UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship (£508k, fec), 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 in Cambridge(10.2013)

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Selected Publications

Opportunities and Challenges for Biosensors and Nanoscale Analytical Tools for Pandemics: COVID-19
 ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 7, 7783–7807. (IF 14.6)

Can a paper-based device trace COVID-19 sources with wastewater-based epidemiology?
Environ Sci Technol, 2020, 54 (7), 3733-3735. (IF7.9)
Featured by Science

Nanomaterial-based Aptamer Sensors for Analysis of Illicit Drugs and Evaluation of Drugs Consumption for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology
Trend Anal Chem (TrAC), 2020, in press (IF 9.8)

Paper-based microfluidics for rapid diagnostics and drug delivery. 
J Control Release, 2020, 322, 187-199. (IF 7.7)

Nanomaterial-based aptamer sensors for arsenic detection. 
Biosens Bioelectron 2020, 148, 111785. (IF 10.3)
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Paper-based microfluidics for DNA diagnostics of malaria in low resource underserved rural communities.
PNAS 2019, 116 (11) 4834- 4842. (IF 9.3) 

Rapid veterinary diagnosis of bovine reproductive infectious diseases from semen using paper-origami DNA microfluidics. ​
ACS Sens, 2018, 3(2), 403-409. (IF 7.3)

Graphene nanocomposites modified electrochemical aptamer sensor for rapid and highly sensitive detection of prostate specific antigen.
Biosens Bioelectron 2018, 121, 41-46. (IF 10.3)

Monitoring Genetic Population Biomarkers with wastewater-based epidemiology. 
Anal Chem 2017, 89 (18), 9941–9945. (IF6.8) 

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. (IF7.9)

Community Sewage Sensors for Monitoring Public Health.  
​Environ Sci Technol 2015. 49 (10), 5845–5846. (IF7.9)

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