News
2023
September 2023
Prof. Zeng was invited to give a presentation in the Royal Society Scientific Meeting - Circadian rhythms in infection and immunity in Newcastle, UK. The presentation title is "Cyanophage infection rhythms: infection time affects viral fitness".
September 2023
Prof. Zeng was invited to give a seminar talk in University of Warwick "Rhythmic interactions of marine cyanobacterium and cyanophage under light-dark cycles".
June 2023
Dr. Lanlan Cai gave a talk in the 11th Geomicrobiology Conference by the Chinese Society for Microbiology in Tianjin, China. The talk title is "The ecology and structure of the MPP-C clade cyanophages".
2022
March 2022
Prof. Zeng gave a talk in ProSynFest "Temporal transcriptional patterns of cyanophage genes suggest synchronized infection of cyanobacteria in the oceans".
2020
June 2020
Prof. Zeng was invited to give a talk in the Biennial Conference of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms "Diurnal infection rhythms of cyanobacterial viruses in the oceans".
2019
March 2019
Yaxin Liu has been awarded the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS).
2018
November 2018
Yuanchao Zhan's manuscript "Photobleaching Enables Super-resolution Imaging of the FtsZ Ring in the Cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus" is published in Journal of Visualized Experiments.
October 2018
Research grant received from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (980,000 RMB).
Conference grant received from Environment and Conservation Fund of Hong Kong (HK$455,420).
July 2018
Sandy Fang's manuscript "F-CphI represents a new homing endonuclease family using the Endo VII catalytic motif" is accepted by Mobile DNA.
2017
August 2017
Research grant received from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (720,000 RMB).
July 2017
Yue Chen was invited to present her work in the Gordon Research Seminar of Marine Molecular Ecology "Diurnal transcriptional rhythm of cyanophages in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre".
June 2017
Research grant received from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (General Research Fund, HK$600,785).
2016
August 2016
Sandy Xiaoting Fang attended the 16th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology and presented a poster "Global Transcriptional Responses of Cyanobacteria to Cyanophage Lysates".
June 2016
Research grant received from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (General Research Fund, HK$787,043).
June 2016
Xingqin Lin attended the Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Biogeochemistry and presented a poster "Phage infection affects the central carbon metabolism of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus". She received the Excellent Student Poster Award.
2015
December 2015
Tianchi Ni's manuscript "Diel infection of cyanobacteria by cyanophages" was accepted for publication by Frontiers in Marine Science.
October 2015
Xingqin Lin's manuscript "Transcriptomic response during phage infection of a marine cyanobacterium under phosphorus-limited conditions" was accepted for publication by Environmental Microbiology.
August 2015
Sandy Xiaoting Fang was invited to presented her work at the Gordon Research Conference on Marine Molecular Ecology - Young Investigator Presentations "Global transcriptional response of Prochlorococcus to dissolved organic matters released after phage infection".
2014
August 2014
Research grant received from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (890,000 RMB).
July 2014
Research grant received from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (General Research Fund, HK$927,041).
2013
November 2013
Prof. Zeng won the Early Career Award from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
August 2013
Research grant received from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (Early Career Scheme, HK$1,461,647).
2012
December 2012
The Zeng Lab was established at HKUST.