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Advanced Sensors for Water-Environment-Health at Cranfield
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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>>

News​​
  • Dr Yang receives Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards on sensing wastewater (fec £1.9m). 
  • Our origami paper device for SARS-CoV-2 has been featured at London Science Museum. ​
  • Science & BBC feature our origami-paper sensor for tracing SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater 
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 Highlights

2023
  • Dr Yang receives Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards on sensing wastewater to support 3 PDRAs & 2 PhDs. 

2022
  • Dr Yang is promoted to Senior Lecturer from October 1, 2022. 
 
  • Our origami paper device for SARS-CoV-2 has been featured at London Science Museum. 

2021 
  • Dr Yang wins James J Morgan ES&T Early Career Award- Honorable Mention, ACS

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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  • Dr Yang was interviewed by BBC Science Action 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) and BBC News (09.2020)
 
  • 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)
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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).
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Selected Publications

 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, 13245–13253

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. (IF 14.6)
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An integrated biosensor system with mobile health and wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 pandemic. 
Biosens Bioelectron 2020(169),112617 (IF 11.2)

Paper-based microfluidics for rapid diagnostics and drug delivery. 
J Control Release, 2020, 322, 187-199. (IF 11.5)
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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. 

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.
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