Employment

Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland

Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, Davis

Postdoctoral Associate, Clemson University

Education

Ph.D.: Microbiology, Clemson University

Recent Publications:

1. Chen, Z. & Meng, J. (2021). Persistence of Salmonella enterica and Enterococcus faecium NRRL B-2354 on baby spinach subjected to temperature abuse after exposure to sub-lethal stresses. Foods, 10(9), 2141.
2. Chen, Z., Erickson, D. L., & Meng, J. (2021). Polishing the Oxford Nanopore long-read assemblies of bacterial pathogens with Illumina short reads to improve genomic analyses. Genomics, 113(3), 1366-1377.
3. Chen, Z., Erickson, D. L., & Meng, J. (2020). Benchmarking long-read assemblers for genomic analyses of bacterial pathogens using Oxford Nanopore sequencing. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(23), 9161.
4. Chen, Z., Erickson, D. L., & Meng, J. (2020). Benchmarking hybrid assembly approaches for genomic analyses of bacterial pathogens using Illumina and Oxford Nanopore sequencing. BMC Genomics, 21(1), 1-21.
5. Kwon, H. J., Chen, Z., Evans, P., Meng, J., & Chen, Y. (2020). Characterization of mobile genetic elements using long-read sequencing for tracking Listeria monocytogenes from food processing environments. Pathogens, 9(10), 822.
6. Chen, Z., Kuang, D., Xu, X., González-Escalona, N., Erickson, D. L., Brown, E., & Meng, J. (2020). Genomic analyses of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Indiana, Typhimurium, and Enteritidis isolates using MinION and MiSeq sequencing technologies. PloS ONE, 15(7), e0235641.

Research Interests:

• • Whole-genome sequencing and genomic analyses of foodborne pathogens
• • Stress response of foodborne pathogens
• • Survival, transfer, detection, and inactivation of foodborne pathogens