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Overview

Xing-Fang Li is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine. Their work spans multiple specialized subfields, including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics related to environmental chemistry, water treatment, and infectious disease detection. Notable papers include:

  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Community Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2: Progress and Challenges, 2021, ACS Environmental Au
  • New methods for identification of disinfection byproducts of toxicological relevance: Progress and future directions, 2020, Journal of Environmental Sciences
  • Nontargeted identification and predicted toxicity of new byproducts generated from UV treatment of water containing micropollutant 2-mercaptobenzothiazole, 2020, Water Research
  • Wastewater Based Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2: Challenges and Perspective from a Canadian Inter-laboratory Study, 2022, Journal of Environmental Sciences
  • A Genome-Editing Nanomachine Constructed with a Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats System and Activated by Near-Infrared Illumination, 2020, ACS Nano

Their research emphasizes several main topics, such as:

  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Environmental Chemistry and Analysis
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

Xing-Fang Li has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors. These include:

  • X. Chris Le
  • Nicholas J. P. Wawryk
  • Caley B. Craven
  • Teresa Kumblathan
  • Qiming Shen

Their work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, particularly in journals related to environmental sciences and analytical chemistry. Prominent journals where their research has been published include:

  • Journal of Environmental Sciences
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry
  • ACS Environmental Au

Best Publications

  • Drinking Water Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs) and Human Health Effects: Multidisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities

    Xing-Fang Li;William A. Mitch

  • Arsenic binding to proteins.

    Shengwen Shen;Xing-Fang Li;William R. Cullen;Michael Weinfeld

  • A microRNA-initiated DNAzyme motor operating in living cells

    Hanyong Peng;Xing-Fang Li;Hongquan Zhang;X. Chris Le

  • DNA-Mediated Homogeneous Binding Assays for Nucleic Acids and Proteins

    Hongquan Zhang;Feng Li;Brittany Dever;Xing-Fang Li

  • Aptamer binding assays for proteins: The thrombin example-A review

    Bin Deng;Yanwen Lin;Chuan Wang;Feng Li

  • Selection and analytical applications of aptamers

    Camille L.A. Hamula;Jeffrey W. Guthrie;Hongquan Zhang;Xing-Fang Li

  • Potential carcinogenic hazards of non-regulated disinfection by-products: Haloquinones, halo-cyclopentene and cyclohexene derivatives, N-halamines, halonitriles, and heterocyclic amines

    Richard J. Bull;David A. Reckhow;Xingfang Li;Andrew R. Humpage

  • Characterization of New Nitrosamines in Drinking Water Using Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry

    Yuan-Yuan Zhao;Jessica Boyd;Steve E Hrudey;Xing-Fang Li

  • Characterization and Determination of Chloro- and Bromo-Benzoquinones as New Chlorination Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water

    Yuli Zhao;Feng Qin;Jessica M. Boyd;Janna Anichina

  • Formation of N-nitrosamines from eleven disinfection treatments of seven different surface waters.

    Yuan-Yuan Zhao;Jessica M. Boyd;Matthew Woodbeck;Robert C. Andrews

  • Occurrence and formation of chloro- and bromo-benzoquinones during drinking water disinfection.

    Yuli Zhao;Janna Anichina;Xiufen Lu;Richard J. Bull

  • Peer Reviewed: Arsenic Speciation

    X. Chris Le;Xiufen Lu;Xing-Fang Li

  • Dynamic DNA assemblies mediated by binding-induced DNA strand displacement.

    Feng Li;Hongquan Zhang;Zhixin Wang;Xukun Li

  • Aptamers facilitating amplified detection of biomolecules

    Feng Li;Hongquan Zhang;Zhixin Wang;Ashley M. Newbigging

  • A toxic disinfection by-product, 2,6-dichloro-1,4-benzoquinone, identified in drinking water.

    Feng Qin;Yuan-Yuan Zhao;Yuli Zhao;Jessica M. Boyd

  • Evidence of hemoglobin binding to arsenic as a basis for the accumulation of arsenic in rat blood.

    Meiling Lu;Hailin Wang;Xing Fang Li;Xiufen Lu

  • Chemical and Toxicological Characterization of Halobenzoquinones, an Emerging Class of Disinfection Byproducts

    Jinhua Li;Wei Wang;Birget Moe;Hailin Wang

  • Binding‐Induced DNA Nanomachines Triggered by Proteins and Nucleic Acids

    Hongquan Zhang;Maode Lai;Albert Zuehlke;Hanyong Peng

  • Selection of aptamers against live bacterial cells.

    Camille L. A. Hamula;Hongquan Zhang;Le Luo Guan;Xing-Fang Li

  • Emerging Disinfection Byproducts, Halobenzoquinones: Effects of Isomeric Structure and Halogen Substitution on Cytotoxicity, Formation of Reactive Oxygen Species, and Genotoxicity

    Jinhua Li;Birget Moe;Sai Vemula;Wei Wang

  • Aptamer-Linked Assay for Thrombin Using Gold Nanoparticle Amplification and Inductively Coupled Plasma−Mass Spectrometry Detection

    Qiang Zhao;Xiufen Lu;Chun-Gang Yuan;Xing-Fang Li

  • Aptamer-Based Affinity Chromatographic Assays for Thrombin

    Qiang Zhao;Xing-Fang Li;Yuanhua Shao;X. Chris Le

Frequent Co-Authors

X. Chris Le
X. Chris Le University of Alberta
Steve E. Hrudey
Steve E. Hrudey University of Alberta
Norman J. Dovichi
Norman J. Dovichi University of Notre Dame
William R. Cullen
William R. Cullen University of British Columbia
Hailin Wang
Hailin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stuart W. Krasner
Stuart W. Krasner Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Bin Hu
Bin Hu Wuhan University
Jianjun Li
Jianjun Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kenneth J. Reimer
Kenneth J. Reimer Royal Military College of Canada
Beibei Chen
Beibei Chen Wuhan University

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