Affiliation: Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Laboratory Medicine

Dr. Liang Wang leads a research team as a principal investigator at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), the largest comprehensive hospital in Guangdong Province, China. Prof. Wang graduated from Xiang-Ya School of Medicine, Central South University, and then was awarded a PhD from the School of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Western Australia. During his PhD study in Australia, he was also awarded a fellowship from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and worked at CSIRO as an internship trainee under the supervision of Prof. Matthew Morell and Dr. Ahmed Regina. After graduation, he trained as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Fungal Genomics Center at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) and the School of Health Sciences at Curtin University (Perth, Australia). Prof. Wang currently serves as a part-time PhD supervisor at the University of Queensland, Australia. For the past five years, Prof. Wang has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and edited four books. His laboratory has established collaborations with teams led by Prof. Wei Wang at Edith Cowan University, Prof. Barry Marshall at the University of Western Australia, Prof. Robert Gilbert at the University of Queensland, and Prof. Li Zhang at the University of New South Wales, etc. He is on the editorial board of iMeta, Future Integrative Medicine, and Translational Metabolic Syndrome Research. He has launched five special issues as a topic editor, which involve microbial evolution, metagenomics, and Raman spectroscopy. He also serves as a guest associate editor for Frontiers in Microbiology and Genetics and reviews editor for Communications Biology, Carbohydrate Polymers, and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, to name a few. His current research interests include but are not limited to microbial physiology, metabolism and evolution, bacterial virulence and antibiotic resistance, rapid detection of microbial pathogens, microbial informatics, meta-omics, and glycogen-related diseases. Prof. Wang is the recipient of the Australia-China Helicobacter Research Fellowship (2019) awarded by the Australia-China Council and Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Barry Marshall.