London Based

Payton Tung On Yau, PhD

Bridging Molecular Discovery and Computational Execution. I am a wet-lab trained Molecular Biologist leveraging data workflows to scale research intuition. My background spans bench-side assay configurations, biochemistry, and structural pipelines to ensure digital assets reflect accurate biological reality.

R / Python / NGS

Computational Genomics

AML Therapeutics: Integrated NanoString & RNA-Seq profiling pipelines.
Bramley Genome: De novo Nanopore cultivar sequence assembly.
IBD Transcriptomics: Gene expression markers for mucosal healing.

Recent Focus

Assays / Culture / QC

Molecular & Wet Lab

Viral Oncology: Epigenetic profiling and target validation assays.
CRC Diagnostics: Multiplex qPCR miRNA screening configurations.
Pathogenesis: Longitudinal isolation of targeted cohort cultures.
External Collaboration De Montfort University

Biofilm Dynamics & Commercial Wash Optimization

Collaborating with the DMU team to map microbiome kill-rates within professional laundering systems. Merging practical lab assays with custom computing parameters to **reduce chemical dependencies and commercial utility costs** without losing sanitization efficacy.

Library

The Psychology of Money Book Cover

Current Read

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Systems Biology Software Suite

OptSurvCutR [v0.10.0] Automating biomarker threshold optimization for survival criteria using information metrics (AIC/BIC).
Multi-Level Interactomes Reconstructing interactome co-expression pathways (**gene-gene / bacteria-bacteria**) derived from single-cell resolutions.

Core Paradigm

"Data analysis is only as sound as the chemistry behind it. I link bench variables directly to analytical pipelines."

Academic Pedagogy

NTU / UoPeople / DMU / BNU Module Lead across Research Analytics and Global Health frameworks, cross-training multi-disciplinary discovery teams.
Applied Focus Moving beyond simple knowledge transfer. Connecting student analysts to real-world industrial challenges.
PhD

By Published Works

Medicine (Diseases Architecture)

MBA Candidate

Biostatistics Open Resource Textbook

Co-Author of "A Little Bit of Everything in Biostatistics". An interactive open-access Jupyter Book mapping calculations directly to standard clinical trial data matrices.

Interface Surveillance

One Health Dynamics

Tracking environmental antimicrobial resistance (AMR) parameters across geographic vectors to map explicit agricultural-to-human spillover cascades.

Peer-Reviewed Publications Records

Surveillance analytics, microbiome changes, and disease pathology literature indexed under author name Tung On Yau.

UKRI Platform Asset

UK Crop Microbiome CryoBank

Systems design architecture backing national database archives for BBSRC phytobiome isolates.