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Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland), Bachelor of Biotechnology (University of Queensland)
My research interests focus on discovering novel microbes and functions from environments and applying them to solve problems in the real world. I am currently a Research Fellow in Microbial Ecology and Wastewater Microbiology at the Water Innovation and Smart Environments Laboratory under Prof Yang Liu. I finished my PhD major in Microbiology at The University of Queensland in 2014 and continued as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Advanced Water Management Centre in UQ until 2017. My primary research goals are directed towards understanding the microbial ecology in wastewater treatment using cutting-edge molecular technologies including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and proteomics. I investigated a large variety of wastewater treatment processes from anaerobic digestion, nutrient recovery, single-cell protein, and microbial fuel cells, to ANAMMOX, and DAMO bacteria/archaea. I also have experience discovering biomimetic material of Velvet worms from 2019 to 2021 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I am currently applying a meta'-omics approach to investigating novel phenomena from the wastewater treatment process.
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- Lu, Y., Sharma, B., Soon, W., Shi, X., Zhao, T., Lim, Y., Sobota, R., Hoon, S., Pilloni, G., Usadi, A., Pervushin, K. & Miserez, A. (2022). Complete Sequences of the Velvet Worm Slime Proteins Reveal that Slime Formation is Enabled by Disulfide Bonds and Intrinsically Disordered Regions. Advanced Science, 9(18). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243494
- Lu, Y., Natarajan, G., Nguyen, T., Thi, S., Arumugam, K., Seviour, T., Williams, R., Wuertz, S. & Law, Y. (2022). Controlling anammox speciation and biofilm attachment strategy using N-biotransformation intermediates and organic carbon levels. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243257
- Hiew, S., Lu, Y., Han, H., Goncalves, R., Alfarano, S., Mezzenga, R., Parikh, A., Mu, Y. & Miserez, A. (2023). Modulation of Mechanical Properties of Short Bioinspired Peptide Materials by Single Amino-Acid Mutations. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(6), 3382–3393. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243749
- Wong, L., Lu, Y., Ho, J., Mugunthan, S., Law, Y., Conway, P., Kjelleberg, S. & Seviour, T. (2023). Surface-layer protein is a public-good matrix exopolymer for microbial community organisation in environmental anammox biofilms. ISME Journal, 17(6), 803–812. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243256
- Tan, X., Lu, Y., Nie, W., Evans, P., Wang, X., Dang, C., Wang, X., Liu, B., Xing, D., Ren, N. & Xie, G. (2024). Nitrate-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to Fe(III) reduction as a source of ammonium and nitrous oxide. Water Research, 256. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248165
- Lu, Y., Liaquat, R., Astals, S., Jensen, P., Batstone, D. & Tait, S. (2018). Relationship between microbial community, operational factors and ammonia inhibition resilience in anaerobic digesters at low and moderate ammonia background concentrations. New Biotechnology, 44, 23–30. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243372
- Hulsen, T., Hsieh, K., Lu, Y., Tait, S. & Batstone, D. (2018). Simultaneous treatment and single cell protein production from agri-industrial wastewaters using purple phototrophic bacteria or microalgae - A comparison. Bioresource Technology, 254, 214–223. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243364
- Jourdin, L., Lu, Y., Flexer, V., Keller, J. & Freguia, S. (2016). Biologically Induced Hydrogen Production Drives High Rate/High Efficiency Microbial Electrosynthesis of Acetate from Carbon Dioxide. ChemElectroChem, 3(4), 581–591. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243305
- Hülsen, T., Barry, E., Lu, Y., Puyol, D., Keller, J. & Batstone, D. (2016). Domestic wastewater treatment with purple phototrophic bacteria using a novel continuous photo anaerobic membrane bioreactor. Water Research, 100, 486–495. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243369
- Jourdin, L., Grieger, T., Monetti, J., Flexer, V., Freguia, S., Lu, Y., Chen, J., Romano, M., Wallace, G. & Keller, J. (2015). High Acetic Acid Production Rate Obtained by Microbial Electrosynthesis from Carbon Dioxide. Environmental Science and Technology, 49(22), 13566–13574. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/243272