Dr. Jinyu Shan
University of Leicester
Biography
Jinyu Shan has expertise in molecular microbiology, phages, qPCR-based molecular diagnostics, good laboratory practice and quality management system. Jinyu is enormously interested in exploiting phages for therapeutic applications in detecting bacterial infections e.g. Clostridium difficile (hospital superbug), Burkholderia pseudomallie (the causative agent of meliodosis) and Borrelia strains (the causative agent of Lyme disease and Relapsing Fever). His phage-based qPCR offers a novel tool for detecting Borrelia infection with high sensitivity (Shan et al., 2021). Jinyu safeguarded the journey of developing a phage-based diagnostics from conceiving the idea to analytical validation and to the evaluation against patient samples. Jinyu is a big fan of technology transfer and is exploring pathways to move molecular diagnostics from the lab to the bedside.
Abstract
Abstract : Use of bacterial viruses for diagnosis of bacterial infections: a case study of Lyme disease