Contact
Address: Floor 15, Block A, No. 108, Yongchuang Road, Guangming District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China
Phone: 0086-136324****5
E-mail: zwlong at live.com; wl.zuo at siat.ac.cn
Experience
Associate Professor Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2025 – Present
Research Assistant Professor, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2022 – 2024
Postdoctoral Researcher, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2019 – 2022
Education
PhD in Material Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2014 – 2019
Supervisor: Prof. WU, Yilin
MPhil in Condensed Matter Physics, School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. 2010 – 2013
Supervisor: Prof. XIONG, Xiaomin
B.S. in Materials Physics, School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. 2006 – 2010
Research interest
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Emergent Phenomena in Complex Ecosystems: Investigating how interactions within microbial communities give rise to emergent properties, such as stability, resilience, and adaptability, under varying environmental conditions.
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Spatial Assembly of Microbial Communities: Exploring the spatial organization and temporal dynamics of microbial communities, focusing on how spatial structuring influences microbial interactions, community function, and ecological processes.
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Intraspecies and Interspecies Interactions: Unraveling the mechanisms of competition and cooperation within and between species, highlighting their roles in shaping community composition, ecosystem function, and evolutionary trajectories.
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Communication and Signaling in Microbial Systems: Deciphering intracellular and intercellular communication networks, including quorum sensing, signaling pathways, and metabolite exchanges, to understand coordination and decision-making in microbial communities.
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Adaptation and Evolution Under Environmental Stress: Investigating how microorganisms adapt and evolve in response to environmental stressors, with an emphasis on the genetic, metabolic, and ecological mechanisms driving these changes.
Research and Professional Experience
12/2019 – Now
Spatial Assembly of Microbial Communities: Exploring the spatial organization and temporal dynamics of microbial communities, focusing on how spatial structuring influences microbial interactions, community function, and ecological processes.
08/2014 – 11/2019
Collective antibiotic tolerance in bacterial swarming.
Single cell motion pattern and self-organization in bacterial swarming.
10/2012 – 12/2013
Development of a mechanical spectrometer based on the AFM which the AFM cantilever can be driven by electromagnetic force and work under active mode.
Investigate surface wave at air-water interface with custom build mechanical spectrometer based on AFM.
Microstructure and its evolution of electro-rheological fluid by mechanical spectrum.
10/2009 – 09/2012
Energy dissipation of shear wave at solid-liquid interface.
Development of a viscoelastic spectrometer of soft matter based on the torsion pendulum.
Nonlinear behavior of soft matter by Fourier Mechanical Spectroscopy which detecting the higher harmonic of the sample strain under an alternating stress.
Publications
[1] Zepeng Qu*, Hongbin Liu*, Ji Yang*, Linggang Zheng, Jumin Huang, Ziming Wang, Chun Xie, Wenlong Zuo, Xiong Xia, Lin Sun, Yifa Zhou, Ying Xie, Jingguang Lu, Yizhun Zhu, Lili Yu, Lihua Liu, Hua Zhou#,, Lei Dai#, Elaine Lai-Han Leung#. (2025) Selective utilization of medicinal polysaccharides by human gut Bacteroides and Parabacteroides species. Nat Commun. Jan 14;16(1):638. [Link].
[2] Lanxiang Wang*, Yue Liu*, Haoran Ni*, Wenlong Zuo, Haimei Shi, Weixin Liao, Hongbin Liu et al. “Systematic characterization of plant-associated bacteria that can degrade indole-3-acetic acid.” PLoS biology 22, no. 11 (2024): e3002921. [Link].
[3] Junbo Tang*, Wenlong Zuo*, Lizhen Guo, Zhihao Han, Chengfeng Yang, Benfeng Han, Lei Dai#, Xue Zhang#, Xin Zhou#. (2024). Synergistic pectin deconstruction is a prerequisite for mutualistic interactions between honeybee gut bacteria. Nat Commun 15, 6937. (* co-first authors). [Link].
[4] Lu Wu*, Xu-Wen Wang*, Zining Tao, Tong Wang, Wenlong Zuo, Yu Zeng, Yang-Yu Liu#, Lei Dai#. (2024). Data-driven prediction of colonization outcomes for complex microbial communities. Nat Commun, 15, 2406. [Link].
[5] Bo Peng*, Ruoxi Wang*, Wenlong Zuo*, et al. (2024). Distinct correlation network of clinical characteristics in suicide attempters having adolescent major depressive disorder with non-suicidal self-injury. Translational Psychiatry, 14, 134. (* co-first authors). [Link].
[6] Zhaohui Cao*, Wenlong Zuo*, Lanxiang Wang, et al. (2023). Spatial profiling of microbial communities by sequential FISH with error-robust encoding. Nat Commun, 14, 1477. (* co-first authors). [Link].
[7] Zuo, Wenlong. & Wu, Yilin. (2020). Dynamic motility selection drives population segregation in a bacterial swarm. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 201917789.[Link]
[8] Xiong, X.-M., Chen, L., Zuo, W.-L., Li, L.-F., Yang, Y.-B., Pang, Z.-Y., & Zhang, J.-X. (2014). Imaginary Part of the Surface Tension of Water. Chinese Physics Letters, 31(7), 76801.[Link]
[9] Chen, L.*, Zuo, W.*, Li, L., Yang, Y., Zhang, J., & Xiong, X. (2014). Role of Complex Surface Tension in the Dispersion Relation of a Capillary Wave. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(46), 26877–26881. (* co-first authors). [Link]
[10] Zuo W, Li L, Yang Y, et al. Resonant frequency and damping of a coupled resonant system measured by apparent dissipation factor frequency spectra[J]. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2013, 84(8): 85110.
[11] Yang Y. B., Zuo, W. L., Bao Y. X., et al. Detection of a coupled vibration by mechanical resonant absorption spectra[J]. ACTA PHYSICA SINICA. 2012, 61(20050920).
[12] Yang Y. B., Zuo, W. L., Bao Y. X., et al. Delay Induced Error Analysis for the Pendulum based Mechanical Spectra Instrument in the Forced Vibration Mode[J]. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni, Vol. 51,0529-6579(2012).
Conference presentations
Poster
Wenlong Zuo. “Spatial profiling of microbial communities by sequential FISH with error-robust encoding.” Q-Bio 2023 Best Poster Award.
Presentation
Wenlong Zuo. “Spatial profiling of microbial communities by sequential FISH with error-robust encoding.” CHINA GUT 2021.
Presentation
Wenlong Zuo, and Yilin Wu. “Collective stress tolerance during bacterial swarming.” APS March Meeting 2018.
Poster
Wenlong Zuo. “Cell motility and antibiotic tolerance of bacterial swarms.” APS March Meeting 2016.
Teaching
Teaching assistant of course ‘Instrumentation’, 2015 – 2017;
Awards and Honors
Best Poster Award at the 17th annual Q-Bio 2023 Conference
TA award, Department of Physics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016 – 2017
Others
Github Page: Jacob Press on Github.
Github Home: Github: Jacob Zuo.
Wechat Suscription Account: Jacob-Press.