News
February 2023
Fuqing has a new paper titled "Updated analysis to reject the laboratory-engineering hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2", which is accepted by Environmental Research.
January 2023
Our review paper "Not a waste: Wastewater surveillance to enhance public health" is accepted for publication in Frontiers (environmental chemical engineering section). Congrats to Anna, Jeremiah, and Anuja!
December 2022
Our paper about the mismatches in Monkeypox (Mpox) viral detection assay is accepted by Journal of Medical Virology! " Wide mismatches in the sequence of primers and probes for Monkeypox virus diagnostic assays".
A wastewater surveillance paper the Wu lab contributed is accepted for publication: "Assessment of a SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring program in El Paso, Texas, from November 2020 to June 2022". Congrats to Anna!
November 2022
The lab research is expanding! We start to work with Carlos Chavarria and Carlos Monserrat on the El Paso campus for wastewater related projects. Welcome Carlos!
October 2022
Fuqing was invited to give a presentation in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UTHealth.
Good news! our paper about SEIR-V modeling of wastewater surveillance data has been accepted by Science of the Total Environment. Great work Team!
September 2022
Our new paper about combining mathematical modeling and wastewater surveillance to understand the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Variants is just online!
Fuqing was invited as a Guest Editor to launch the Special Issue "Genetics of Infectious Diseases" in journal Genes.
August 2022
Our new paper about the Monkeypox viral detection is just online: "Wide mismatches in the sequences of primers and probes for Monkeypox virus diagnostic assays".
Our collaboration with Dr. Erdman at MIT brings a new paper out: "Maternal Microbiota Modulate a Fragile X-like Syndrome in Offspring Mice". Congrats!
July 2022
Check out! Our new paper about modeling wastewater surveillance data to infer the true prevalence of COVID-19 cases and predict SARS-CoV-2 transmission is just online! Congrats to Tin and Samantha!
A review paper that the Wu lab contributed is published in Water Research: "Monitoring human arboviral diseases through wastewater surveillance: Challenges, progress and future opportunities". Congrats to the SMART team!
Fuqing was invited to give a talk at The BioST 2022 (World Biological Science and Technology Conference).
A research paper that the Wu lab involved in entitled "Rapid displacement of SARS-CoV-2 variant Delta by Omicron revealed by allele-specific PCR in wastewater" just published in Water Research. Congrats to the SMART team!
June 2022
Fuqing has been selected for the "International Research Awards on Infectious Diseases" under the category of "Best Research Award" (2022).
Fuqing joined as an co-investigator in the Texas Network COVID Variant Sequencing Project.
Fuqing joined as an co-investigator in the UTH-MDA Population Health Initiative Collaborative Project Award (PI: Fujimoto, K., & Chiao, E.)
May 2022
Jeremiah Oghuan joined the lab and started his research experience. Welcome, Jeremiah!
Anuja Rajendra Godbole joined the lab for her Practicum research! Welcome, Anuja!
Fuqing was invited to give a talk at the Synthetic Biology Young Speaker Series (SynBYSS) on May 19, 2022. His presentation title is: Bridging synthetic biology and epidemiology for pandemic preparedness.
Our paper about Wastewater Surveillance in an Endemic Future has been published in Water Research as 'Making Waves'~! (Big Thanks to our collaborators in MIT, SMART, and NTU! )
April 2022
Fuqing gave a talk about wastewater monitoring of infectious diseases at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS) Research Seminar Series.
March 2022
Fuqing is invited to give a presentation in the Tech Ops meeting for the DSHS Variant Seq Project (DSHS: Texas Department of State Health Services).
February 2022
The Wu lab launched at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston! We are looking for motivated graduate students and Postdocs. Join us!
January 2022
Fuqing received the University of Texas Systems Rising STARs award.
July 2021
Fuqing accepted the offer from UTHealth.