Representative publications

Wastewater-based epidemiology

Mantilla-Calderon, D., Huang, K. K., Li, A., Chibwe, K., Yu, X., Ye, Y., ... & Ling, F. (2022). Emerging investigator series: meta-analyses on SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA levels in wastewater and their correlations to epidemiological indicators. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EW00084A

Preprint version: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.14.22270937v1

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Zhang, L., Chen, L., Yu, X., Duvallet, C., Isazadeh, S., Dai, C., ... & Ling, F. (2022). MicrobiomeCensus estimates human population sizes from wastewater samples based on inter-individual variability in gut microbiomes. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(9), e1010472.

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Drinking water microbiomes

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Ling, F., Whitaker, R., LeChevallier, M. W., & Liu, W. T. (2018). Drinking water microbiome assembly induced by water stagnation. The ISME journal, 12(6), 1520. Featured in a collection of papers from The ISME Journal and Nature Microbiology for ISME17 meeting in Leipzig, Germany. Readers' Choice: Best of ISMEJ 2018. 

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Ling, F., Hwang, C., LeChevallier, M. W., Andersen, G. L., & Liu, W. T. (2016). Core-satellite populations and seasonality of water meter biofilms in a metropolitan drinking water distribution system. The ISME journal, 10(3), 582. This is the largest study of water supply biofilm samples as of the publishing date. 

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Lautenschlager, K., Hwang, C., Ling, F., Liu, W. T., Boon, N., Köster, O., ... & Hammes, F. (2014). Abundance and composition of indigenous bacterial communities in a multi-step biofiltration-based drinking water treatment plant. Water research, 62, 40-52.

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Liu, G., Ling, F., Magic-Knezev, A., Liu, W. T., Verberk, J. Q. J. C., & Van Dijk, J. C. (2013). Quantification and identification of particle-associated bacteria in unchlorinated drinking water from three treatment plants by cultivation-independent methods. Water research, 47(10), 3523-3533.

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Hwang, C.+, Ling, F.+, Andersen, G. L., LeChevallier, M. W., & Liu, W. T. (2012). Microbial community dynamics of an urban drinking water distribution system subjected to phases of chloramination and chlorination treatments. Applied and environmental microbiology, AEM-01892. [+ co-first authorship]

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Freshwater ecology

Liu, Z., Zhang, L., Knouft, J. H., & Ling, F. (2022). Meter-scale variation within a single transect demands attention to taxon accumulation curves in riverine microbiome studies. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 16(5), 1-11.

Aquatic biofilms 

Ling, F., & Liu, W. T. (2013). Impact of chloramination on the development of laboratory-grown biofilms fed with filter-pretreated groundwater. Microbes and environments, 28(1), 50-57.

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Janjaroen, D., Ling, F., Monroy, G., Derlon, N., Mogenroth, E., Boppart, S. A., ... & Nguyen, T. H. (2013). Roles of ionic strength and biofilm roughness on adhesion kinetics of Escherichia coli onto groundwater biofilm grown on PVC surfaces. Water research, 47(7), 2531-2542.

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Hwang, C., Ling, F., Andersen, G. L., LeChevallier, M. W., & Liu, W. T. (2012). Evaluation of methods for the extraction of DNA from drinking water distribution system biofilms. Microbes and environments, 27(1), 9-18.

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Microbial ecology of wastewater treatment processes 

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Wu, L., Ning, D., Zhang, B., Li, Y., Zhang, P., Shan, X., Zhang, Q., Brown, M., Li, Z., Van Nostrand, J.D., Ling, F., ... & Zhou, J. (2019). Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants. Nature Microbiology, 4(7), 1183-1195.

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Perspectives and Editorials 

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Ling, F., & Hornbuckle, K. C. (2022). Environmental Engineers Addressing the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century. ACS Environmental Au, 2(3), 176-177.

Hull, N.M., Ling, F., Pinto, A.J., Albertsen, M., Jang, H.G., Hong, P.Y., Konstantinidis, K.T., LeChevallier, M., Colwell, R.R. , & Liu, W.T. (2019). Drinking Water Microbiome Project: Is it Time?. Trends in microbiology. 27(8), 670-677. 

Ling, F. (2017). Microbial communities as biosensors for monitoring urban environments. Microbial biotechnology, 10(5), 1149-1151.