Affiliation: BGI-Research, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China

Dr. Ziqing DENG is an associate researcher in BGI-Research, BGI-ShenZhen. He obtained his B.S. in Environmental Science from Tongji University (Shanghai, China) in 2011, and his PhD degree in Microbiology from the University of Hong Kong (HKSAR, China) in 2017. Dr. DENG ‘s doctoral work concentrated on the molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, including multidrug efflux pump and LPS modification. His research currently focuses on high-throughput omics technologies to study antimicrobial resistance and synthetic approaches for phage engineering against MDR bacteria.