Joint PIs

2022-Present, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University;
2018-Present, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University;
2017-2019, Department of Zoonoses, Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention;
2017-2020, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University;
2012-2017, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University;
2008-2012, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University.

Discovery of novel viruses and new pathogens; genetics and evolution of virus; the association and ecological relationship between viruses and their hosts.

1.    Chen YM#, Sadiq S#, Tian JH, Chen X, Lin XD, Shen JJ, Chen H, Hao ZY, Wille M, Zhou ZC, Wu J, Li F, Wang HW, Yang WD, Xu QY, Wang W, Gao WH, Holmes EC, Zhang YZ*. 2022 RNA viromes from terrestrial sites across China expand environmental viral diversity. Nat Microbiol 7(8):1312-1323.
2.    Wu F#, Zhao S#, Yu B#, Chen YM#, Wang W#, Song ZG#, Hu Y#, Tao ZW, Tian JH, Pei YY, Yuan ML, Zhang YL, Dai FH, Liu Y, Wang QM, Zheng JJ, Xu L, Holmes EC and Zhang YZ*. 2020 A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China. Nature 579: 265-269.
3.    Chen YM#, Zheng YT#, Yu Y#, Wang YZ#, Huang XQ#, Qian F#, Sun L#, Song ZG, Chen ZY, Feng JW, An YP, Yang JC, Su ZQ, Sun SY, Dai FH, Chen QS, Lu QW, Li PC, Ling Y, Yang Z, Tang HR, Shi LM, Jin L, Holmes EC, Chen D, Zhu TY and Zhang YZ*. 2020 Blood molecular markers associated with COVID-19 Immunopathology and multiorgan damage. EMBO J 39: e105896.
4.    Sun Z#, Song ZG#, Liu C#, Tan S#, Lin S, Zhu J, Dai FH, Gao J, She JL, Mei Z, Lou T, Zheng JJ, Liu Y, He J, Zheng Y, Ding C, Qian F, Zheng Y*, Chen YM*. 2022 Gut microbiome alterations and gut barrier dysfunction are associated with host immune homeostasis in COVID-19 patients. BMC Med 20:24
5.    Gao WH#, Lin XD#, Chen YM#, Xie CG, Tan ZZ, Zhou JJ, Chen S, Holmes EC and Zhang YZ*. 2020 Newly identified viral genomes in pangolins with fatal disease. Virus Evol 6: veaa020.