Projects

HERE ARE A FEW PROJECTS I WILL BE WORKING ON:

1. Precision Animal Health Monitoring
   Goal: Develop scalable, field-deployable tools to monitor zoonotic pathogens in poultry environments.
   Approach: Duplex qPCR, shotgun metagenomics, machine learning algorithms.
   Why it matters: Early detection of zoonotic pathogens and AMR markers can help reduce foodborne outbreaks and improve animal welfare.

2. AMR Surveillance in Agricultural Systems
   Focus: Investigating how environment factors and farm practices shape the resistome in poultry production.
   Tools: 16S, shotgun metagenomics, and ONT sequencing, plasmidome profiling, phenotypic resistance screening, etc.

3. Computational Microbiology
   Overview: Bioinformatics tool development for compositional microbiome data analysis.
   Status: Manuscript in preparation; tool designed for reproducibility and high performance on large datasets.

HERE ARE A FEW SELECTED FINISHED PROJECTS:

1. USDA ARS In-House Project: Reduction of Foodborne Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance in Poultry Production
   PI | $200,000

2. NSFC China: Co-existence of MST markers and fecal indicators in WWTP effluents
   PI | $77,000