User profiles for David Zong

David M. Zong

Scientist, University of California San Diego
Verified email at ucsd.edu
Cited by 344

Evaluating recovery, cost, and throughput of different concentration methods for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology

ZW LaTurner, DM Zong, P Kalvapalle, KR Gamas… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect communities across the globe, the need to
contain the spread of the outbreaks is of paramount importance. Wastewater monitoring of the …

Expanding the product profile of a microbial alkane biosynthetic pathway

…, JH An, C Choe, YL Lai, B Mo, D Zong… - ACS synthetic …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Microbially produced alkanes are a new class of biofuels that closely match the chemical
composition of petroleum-based fuels. Alkanes can be generated from the fatty acid …

Wastewater analysis of SARS-CoV-2 as a predictive metric of positivity rate for a major metropolis

…, H Hernandez, M Hollstein, K Weesner, DM Zong… - MedRXiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 has been suggested as an epidemiological indicator
of community infection dynamics and disease prevalence. We report wastewater viral RNA …

Predicting transcriptional output of synthetic multi-input promoters

DM Zong, S Cinar, DL Shis, K Josić, W Ott… - ACS synthetic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in synthetic biology have led to a wealth of well-characterized genetic parts.
As parts libraries grow, so too does the potential to create novel multi-input promoters that …

Tunable Dynamics in a Multistrain Transcriptional Pulse Generator

DM Zong, M Sadeghpour, S Molinari… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
One challenge in synthetic biology is the tuning of regulatory components within gene circuits
to elicit a specific behavior. This challenge becomes more difficult in synthetic microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Improvement of a potential anthrax therapeutic by computational protein design

SJ Wu, CB Eiben, JH Carra, I Huang, D Zong… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Past anthrax attacks in the United States have highlighted the need for improved measures
against bioweapons. The virulence of anthrax stems from the shielding properties of the …

Synthetic biology open language visual (SBOL Visual) version 2.3

…, CA Voigt, A Wipat, D Zong… - Journal of Integrative …, 2021 - degruyter.com
People who are engineering biological organisms often find it useful to communicate in
diagrams, both about the structure of the nucleic acid sequences that they are engineering and …

Synthetic biology open language visual (SBOL visual) version 2.2

…, MV Vilar, CA Voigt, A Wipat, D Zong… - Journal of Integrative …, 2020 - degruyter.com
People who are engineering biological organisms often find it useful to communicate in
diagrams, both about the structure of the nucleic acid sequences that they are engineering and …

Self-destructive altruism in a synthetic developmental program enables complex feedstock utilization

R Egbert, L Brettner, D Zong, E Klavins - bioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
Stochastic differentiation and programmed cell death are common developmental processes
in microbes, driving diverse altruistic behaviors that promote cooperation. Utilizing cell …

Evaluating recovery, cost, and throughput of different concentration methods for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology (preprint)

ZW LaTurner, DM Zong, P Kalvapalle, K ReyesGamas… - 2020 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect communities across the globe, the need to
contain the spread of the outbreaks is of paramount importance. Wastewater monitoring of the …