Lei Liu

A Saccharimonadia epibiont interacts with the polyphosphate-accumulating bacterium Candidatus Phosphoribacter in wastewater treatment plants

The paper identifies a novel Saccharimonadia genus associated with a polyphosphate-accumulating bacterium in wastewater treatment plants and explores their ecological and metabolic interactions.

The MiDAS global genome catalog: 53,501 long-read MAGs representing all core prokaryotic genera in the global activated sludge microbiome

The paper constructs a global genome catalog of 53,501 long-read MAGs from activated sludge, representing 12,047 prokaryotic species and enabling analysis of functional traits and ecological roles in wastewater treatment systems.

Ecological specificity and interconnectivity in Danish environmental resistomes

This study characterizes the Danish environmental resistome across 7,000 samples, identifying core and habitat-specific ARGs and their connectivity across ecosystems.

Occurrence and temporal dynamics of denitrifying protist endosymbionts in the wastewater microbiome

The paper investigates denitrifying protist endosymbionts in wastewater treatment plants, finding their presence in 20-50% of facilities and highlighting temporal fluctuations and incomplete denitrification pathways.