Zeng Laboratory @ TAMU

08/21/2026: Chaohua receives the Tom Patterson Fellowship! Congratulations!

Chaohua and Addison won the 1st place for the oral presentation and the 1st place for the poster presentation in the BCBP Graduate Symposium! Congratuations!

06/11/2026: Zihao and Chaohua's paper Lethal Permeabilization of Host Bacteria to Small-Molecule Compounds During Phage Penetration is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to Zihao, Chaohua, Harrison, Ian and Lily!

05/28/2026: Addison's paper Phage-Derived Proteins and Conjugates Induce Pilus Detachment is published in Journal of Bacteriology. Congratulations to Addison and Zhi!

04/02/2026: Lanying gave a seminar to the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and met with Ido!

01/14/2026: Lanying gave an invited talk at the 9th Annual Texas Medical Center Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship Conference, Houston, TX.

08/06/2025: Lanying gave an invited talk, Zihao, Zhi, Addison and Harrison presented posters at the 2025 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin.

06/20/2025: Chaohua presented a poster at the ASM Microbe, Los Angeles.

06/17/2025: Lanying gave a seminar to the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Wurzburg, Germany.

04/18/2025: Matthew successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations!!!

10/31/2024: Lanying gave a seminar to the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

10/10/2024: Zihao won the Dean's outstanding achievement award for graduate student research. Congratulations!

09/27/2024: Zihao successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Yu!

08/07/2024: Zihao gave a talk at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting at Madison, WI.

06/12/2024: Trevor is selected to receive the Nancy M. and Brock D. Nelson Scholarship. Congratulations!

05/28/2024: Lily Torrans from the College of William and Mary joined the lab as a REU student. Welcome!

04/18/2024: Lanying gave an invited talk at the 2024 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria.

04/10/2024: The PP7 paper is out in Science. Check out this news story covering it.

03/28/2024: Lanying gave a seminar to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the UT Health, Houston.

03/01/2024: The PP7 paper entitled "Removal of Pseudomonas Type IV Pili by a Small RNA Virus" led by our lab and Junjie Zhang's lab is accepted to publish in Science. Congratulations to the co-first authors Tee and Zihao, and all other authors!

02/02/2024: Zihao won the John Mack Prescott Award, the highest graduate student research award in our department. Congratulations!

01/03/2024: Harrison and Zaina join the lab as graduate students. Welcome!

11/14/2023: Harrison and Zaina join the lab for their rotation 3. Welcome!

10/09/2023: Rachel, Gladys and Hamza join the lab for their rotation 2. Welcome!

09/21/2023: Lanying gave a seminar to the Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, and to the Biophysics of MIT.

09/05/2023: Brianna and Mason join the lab for their rotation 1. Ian joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

08/21/2023: Chaohua joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!

08/07/2023: Zihao receives the Thomas L. Patterson Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!

08/01/2023: Lanying gave an invited talk at the STATPHYS28 Satellite Meeting - Emergence in Biological Networks in Taipei, Taiwan.

06/17/2023: Zihao received the Gisela Mosig Award at the ASM Microbe. Congratulations!

The whole lab attended the conference. Zihao and Matthew presented their research.

Zihao's award

Zihao's talk

Matthew's talk

05/30/2023: Trevor is selected to receive the Michelle Williams Deere Scholarship. Congratulations!

05/16/2023: Zihao won the Gisela Mosig Award, and he will present his research at the ASM meeting in Houston next Month. Congratulations!

01/03/2023: Addison and Zhi join the lab as graduate students. Welcome!

11/14/2022: Thom and Zhi join the lab for rotation 3. Welcome!

11/01/2022: Lanying gave a seminar to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

10/10/2022: Addison joins the lab for rotation 2. Welcome!

09/06/2022: Zach and Cody join the lab for rotation 1. Welcome!

08/01 - 08/05/2022: The whole lab attended the Phage Meeting at Madison, Wisconsin.

08/01/2022: The lab receives an NIH R01 to study ssRNA phages and the impact on the host retractile pili upon the infection.

05/2022: Congratulations, Dr. Laith Harb!

02/11/2022: Laith won the John Mack Prescott Award, the highest graduate student research award in our department. Congratulations!

07/2021: Laith is selected to receive the Thomas L. Patterson Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!

05/2021: Congratulations, Dr. Kailun Zhang!

04/2021: Our NIH grant which aims to disarm bacteria by ssRNA phages is highlighted in AgriLife Today, Texas A&M University, KBTX, KXXV.

12/2020: The lab receives an NIH funding to examine pili detachment by ssRNA phages.

06/2020: The lab receives an NSF funding (transitions) to examine the role of spatial structure in phage lambda decision making.

12/2019: Congratulations, Dr. Jingwen Guan!

08/2019: The lab receives an NSF funding to study the entry dynamics of ssRNA phages.