Jiaying Gu
Hi, I'm Jiaying Gu, a PhD student in the OneZoo Centre for Doctoral Training at Queen's University Belfast, based in the Bamford AVI Lab. I studied Health Inspection and Quarantine at Guangdong Medical University before working for four years in the Microbiology Laboratory at the Shenzhen Yantian District Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2023, I completed a Master of Public Health at the University of Aberdeen. My PhD research examines how environmental chemical mixtures may alter immune responses and infectious disease risk in mammals. As part of a Cardiff University otter project, I investigate the viruses carried by wild otters and explore how pollution may influence host health and emerging zoonotic risks.
Project: Environmental Health and Infectious Disease: How Chemical Cocktails Help Drive Emerging Zoonoses in Mammals. Funded by the OneZoo Centre for Doctoral Training through UKRI. Collaborators: Cardiff University, University of Nottingham, Public Health Wales and the UK Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Outside the lab: foraging for mushrooms (though she cannot identify any of them), growing flowers (which rarely survive her care), and making dumplings, fortunately with much better results.
