Xin Deng

Dr. Deng is a biomedical scientist with a special interest in bacterial virulence, including gene regulation, signaling pathways, and RNA epigenetics. He has worked on virulence regulation in pathogens to discover new therapies against bacterial infections.

Dr. Deng is a biomedical scientist with a special interest in bacterial virulence, including gene regulation, signalling pathways, and RNA epigenetics. He, along with his team at Deng Lab, has worked on virulence regulation in pathogens to discover new therapies against bacterial infections and has published papers on antibiotic resistance. His research with Dr. Jian Yan (CityU) can potentially facilitate the development of new drugs against the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae, a common plant pathogen that affects a wide variety of crops.

Selected news links:

Asia's race to outsmart antimicrobial resistance - Asia Research News, March 8, 2022
Superbug virulence regulatory mechanism revealed: Pave ways for developing new antibiotics - Science Daily, July 3, 2019
Researchers reveal virulence regulatory mechanism in a superbug - News-Medical.Net, July 4, 2019

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Xie Y., Li J., Ding Y., Shao X, Deng X*. et al. An atlas of bacterial two-component systems reveals function and plasticity in signal transduction. Cell Reports 41(3). (2022) DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111502
Shao X, Yao C, Ding Y, Qian G, He M, Deng X^*. The transcriptional regulators of virulence for Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Therapeutic opportunity and preventive potential of its clinical infections. Genes & Diseases. (2022) DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2022.09.009