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Overview

Zhiyuan Gong is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focused investigation into molecular biology, cell biology, cancer research, infectious diseases, and immunology as notable subfields.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals

Zhiyuan Gong has contributed to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Scientific Reports
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Surface Science

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhiyuan Gong cover a range of topics and are published in relevant journals. These include:

  • Exosome-mediated metabolic reprogramming: the emerging role in tumor microenvironment remodeling and its influence on cancer progression, 2020, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
  • Barrier function of zebrafish embryonic chorions against microplastics and nanoplastics and its impact on embryo development, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Diet preference of zebrafish (Danio rerio) for bio-based polylactic acid microplastics and induced intestinal damage and microbiota dysbiosis, 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Toxicities of microplastic fibers and granules on the development of zebrafish embryos and their combined effects with cadmium, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Zebrafish as the toxicant screening model: Transgenic and omics approaches, 2021, Aquatic Toxicology

Frequent collaborators with whom Zhiyuan Gong has co-authored multiple works include:

  • Hualei Wang
  • Malcolm Turk Hsern Tan
  • Dan Li
  • Hongli Jin
  • Yujie Bai

Best Publications

  • Vertebrate genome evolution and the zebrafish gene map.

    John H. Postlethwait;Yi-Lin Yan;Michael A. Gates;Sally Horne

  • Development and maturation of the immune system in zebrafish, Danio rerio: a gene expression profiling, in situ hybridization and immunological study.

    S.H Lam;H.L Chua;Z Gong;T.J Lam

  • Growth Enhancement in Transgenic Atlantic Salmon by the Use of an “All Fish” Chimeric Growth Hormone Gene Construct

    Shao Jun Du;Zhiyuan Gong;Garth L. Fletcher;Margaret A. Shears

  • Transcriptome analysis of zebrafish embryogenesis using microarrays.

    Sinnakaruppan Mathavan;Serene G. P Lee;Alicia Mak;Lance D Miller

  • Conservation of gene expression signatures between zebrafish and human liver tumors and tumor progression

    Siew Hong Lam;Yi Lian Wu;Vinsensius B Vega;Lance D Miller

  • Zebrafish mRNA sequencing deciphers novelties in transcriptome dynamics during maternal to zygotic transition

    Håvard Aanes;Cecilia L. Winata;Chi Ho Lin;Jieqi P. Chen

  • Expression of zebrafish bHLH genes ngn1 and nrd defines distinct stages of neural differentiation.

    Vladimir Korzh;Inna Sleptsova;Ji Liao;Jiangyan He

  • Hepatic and extrahepatic expression of vitellogenin genes in the zebrafish, Danio rerio.

    Hai Wang;Jacqueline T.T. Tan;Alexander Emelyanov;Vladimir Korzh

  • Barrier function of zebrafish embryonic chorions against microplastics and nanoplastics and its impact on embryo development.

    Zhenghua Duan;Xinyue Duan;Shuang Zhao;Xiaoli Wang

  • Fgf10 regulates hepatopancreatic ductal system patterning and differentiation

    P Duc Si Dong;Chantilly A Munson;William Norton;Cecile Crosnier

  • Comparative Transcriptome Analyses Indicate Molecular Homology of Zebrafish Swimbladder and Mammalian Lung

    Weiling Zheng;Zhengyuan Wang;John E. Collins;Robert M. Andrews

  • Development of zebrafish swimbladder: The requirement of Hedgehog signaling in specification and organization of the three tissue layers.

    Cecilia Lanny Winata;Svetlana Korzh;Igor Kondrychyn;Weiling Zheng

  • Requirement of vasculogenesis and blood circulation in late stages of liver growth in zebrafish

    Svetlana Korzh;Xiufang Pan;Marta Garcia-Lecea;Cecilia Lanny Winata

  • Development of transgenic fish for ornamental and bioreactor by strong expression of fluorescent proteins in the skeletal muscle.

    Zhiyuan Gong;Haiyan Wan;Tuan Leng Tay;Hai Wang

  • The tcl-3 proto-oncogene altered by chromosomal translocation in T-cell leukemia codes for a homeobox protein.

    Ming Lu;Zhiyuan Gong;Weifang Shen;A. D. Ho

  • Morphological and molecular evidence for functional organization along the rostrocaudal axis of the adult zebrafish intestine

    Zhengyuan Wang;Zhengyuan Wang;Jianguo Du;Jianguo Du;Siew Hong Lam;Sinnakarupan Mathavan

  • An inducible krasV12 transgenic zebrafish model for liver tumorigenesis and chemical drug screening

    Anh Tuan Nguyen;Alexander Emelyanov;Chor Hui Vivien Koh;Jan M. Spitsbergen

  • Mercury-induced hepatotoxicity in zebrafish: in vivo mechanistic insights from transcriptome analysis, phenotype anchoring and targeted gene expression validation

    Choong Yong Ung;Siew Hong Lam;Mya Myintzu Hlaing;Cecilia Lanny Winata

  • A zebrafish vitellogenin gene (vg3) encodes a novel vitellogenin without a phosvitin domain and may represent a primitive vertebrate vitellogenin gene

    Hai Wang;Tie Yan;Jacqueline T.T. Tan;Zhiyuan Gong

  • Correction: Vertebrate genome evolution and the zebrafish gene map

    John Postlethwait;Yi-Lin Yan;Michael Gates;Sally Horne

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir Korzh
Vladimir Korzh United Way
Choy L. Hew
Choy L. Hew National University of Singapore
Garth L. Fletcher
Garth L. Fletcher Memorial University of Newfoundland
Paul Matsudaira
Paul Matsudaira National University of Singapore
Qingsong Lin
Qingsong Lin National University of Singapore
Han-Ming Shen
Han-Ming Shen University of Macau
Shane A. Snyder
Shane A. Snyder Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert J. Letcher
Robert J. Letcher Carleton University
Baowen Li
Baowen Li Southern University of Science and Technology
Guillaume Bourque
Guillaume Bourque McGill University

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