Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data‐capable community

…, J Kitzes, MJ Koontz, PV Kouba, WY Kwan… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It is a critical time to reflect on the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) science
to date as well as envision what research can be done right now with NEON (and other) …

The CALeDNA program: Citizen scientists and researchers inventory California's biodiversity

…, DR Ramos, S Shirazi, G Kandlikar, WY Kwan… - California …, 2021 - escholarship.org
Climate change is leading to habitat shifts that threaten species persistence throughout
California’s unique ecosystems. Baseline biodiversity data would provide opportunities for …

Total vs hemithyroidectomy for intermediate risk papillary thyroid cancer: a 23 year retrospective study in a tertiary center

KP Tsui, WY Kwan, TL Chow - American Journal of Otolaryngology, 2019 - Elsevier
Background There is much debate in the literature over the extent of surgery for patients
with intermediate risk papillary thyroid cancer. We herein report our results in a local tertiary …

The California environmental DNA “CALeDNA” program

…, Z Gold, DR Ramos, S Shirazi, G Kandlikar, WY Kwan… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Global change is leading to habitat shifts that threaten species persistence throughout
California’s unique ecosystems. Baseline biodiversity data provide opportunities for ecosystems …

Hemithyroidectomy using local or general anaesthesia: R esults of a local regional hospital

KP Tsui, WY Kwan, CY Choi, TL Chow - Surgical Practice, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Thyroidectomy is commonly performed for benign and malignant diseases of the thyroid
gland. We report our results of performing hemithyroidectomy under local anaesthesia ( LA …

Planococcus versutus sp. nov., isolated from soil

…, R Ee, M Madhaiyan, SW Kwon… - … of systematic and …, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
A taxonomic study was performed on a novel Gram-stain-positive, coccus-shaped, orange-pigmented
motile bacterium, designated as strain L10.15 T . The organism was isolated from …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from retail shrimps in Malaysia

V Letchumanan, WF Yin, LH Lee, KG Chan - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a marine and estuarine bacterium that has been the leading
cause of foodborne outbreaks which leads to a significant threat to human health worldwide. …

[HTML][HTML] Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, and Bioactivities of Cananga odorata (Ylang-Ylang)

LTH Tan, LH Lee, WF Yin, CK Chan… - Evidence-Based …, 2015 - hindawi.com
Ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata Hook. F. & Thomson) is one of the plants that are exploited at
a large scale for its essential oil which is an important raw material for the fragrance industry…

[HTML][HTML] Microbial succession and the functional potential during the fermentation of Chinese soy sauce brine

J Sulaiman, HM Gan, WF Yin, KG Chan - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The quality of traditional Chinese soy sauce is determined by microbial communities and their
inter-related metabolic roles in the fermentation tank. In this study, traditional Chinese soy …

Beach environmental DNA fills gaps in photographic biomonitoring to track spatiotemporal community turnover across 82 phyla

RS Meyer, TM Schweizer, WY Kwan, E Curd, A Wall… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is emerging as a biomonitoring tool available to
the citizen science community that promises to augment or replace photographic …