Research Questions

Marine microbial ecology, microbial source tracking of fecal pollution in seawater, population genetics of environmental E. coli strains

Representative Publications

1. Lai JYH, Zhang Hao, Chiang MHY, Lun HI, Zhang R, Lau SCK (2018) The putative functions of lysogeny in mediating the survivorship of E. coli in seawater and marine sediment. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 63:252-259
2. Liu R, Yeung TC, Ho PH, Lau SCK (2017) Tracking the relative concentration of Bacteroidales DNA markers and culturable E. coli in fecally polluted water: potential use in differentiating between recent and aged pollution. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 63:252-259
3. Shao WG, Zhang M, Lam H, Lau SCK (2015) A peptide identification-free, genome sequence-independent shotgun proteomics workflow for strain-level bacterial differentiation. Scientific Reports. 5:14337
4. Liu RL, Cheng KHF, Wong K, Cheng SCS, Lau SCK (2015) Differential utility of the Bacteroidales DNA and RNA markers in the tiered approach for microbial source tracking in subtropical seawater. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 99:5669-81
5. Lau SCK, Zhang R, Brodie EL, Piceno YM, Andersen G, Liu WT (2013) Diversity and biogeography of bacterioplankton in the tropical seawaters of Singapore. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 84:259-269