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Liang Wang
Summary
Prof. Wang is currently a principal investigator at Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, where he leads a theoretical and experimental microbiology (TEM) research group. He is also an adjunct research fellow at the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland (2023-2026), adjunct research fellow at the Division of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Australia (2023-2026), and associate professor (Nov. 2022-Oct. 2025) at the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia. Prof. Wang is supervisor for MSc students at South China University of Technology (SCUT) and South Medical University (SMU), and also supervises PhD students at the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia.
His current research interests are Microbial Physiology and Metabolism, Microbial Informatics and Glycogen-related Human Diseases. He was awarded Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Western Australia in 2014 and received his postdoctoral training at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) and Curtin University (Perth, Australia). Prof. Wang serves as an associate editor at Frontiers in Microbiology, and editorial board member at Frontiers in Microbiology (Associate Editor), BMC Microbiology, BMC Bioinformatics, Heliyon (Advisory Member), PLOS One (Academic Editor), Immunity, Inflammation and Disease (Emerging Editor), Translational Metabolic Syndrome Research, Future Integrative Medicine, Frontiers in Bioinformatics, iMeta, and Medicine Advances, etc. He also serves as guest editors for BioCell, JoVE, and IntechOpen. Prof. Wang serves as reviewer for more than 10 international journals such as iScience, Journal of Global Health and Communications Biology, etc.
Prof. Wang has edited four books and published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals such as Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Advanced Research, and Carbohydrate Polymers, etc. He is the recipient of the Australia-China Helicobacter Research Fellowship (2019) awarded by Australia-China Council and Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Barry Marshall.
Biochemistry Bioinformatics Evolutionary Studies Microbiology Raman Spectroscopy
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