Liang Wang
Prof. Liang Wang is currently working as a principal investigator and group leader at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. He is also an adjunct research fellow at the University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia and an adjunct associate professor at Edith Cowan University. His current research interests are microbial physiology and metabolism, rapid diagnosis of bacterial pathogens, microbial informatics, and glycogen structure and functions. He was awarded his PhD degree from the University of Western Australia in 2014 and received his postdoctoral training at Concordia University and Curtin University. Prof. Wang serves as an associate editor at Frontiers in Microbiology and is an editorial board member at BMC Bioinformatics, PeerJ, Heliyon, Immunity, Inflammation and Disease (Emerging Editor), and Translational Metabolic Syndrome Research, etc. Prof. Wang also serves as a reviewer for multiple international journals such as Lancet Digital Health, Journal of Global Health, and Communications Biology, etc. Prof. Wang has edited seven books and published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers in international journals such as Lancet Microbe, ISME, and Emerging Infectious Diseases, etc. He is the recipient of the Australia-China Helicobacter Research Fellowship (2019) awarded by the Australia-China Council and Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Barry J. Marshall.