研究方向：
l 冠状病毒的传播及致病机制研究
l 宿主抗病毒免疫以及病毒免疫逃逸的分子机制研究
学术兼职
l Emerging Infectious Diseases 审稿人
l Cell & Biosciences 审稿人
l Journal of Medical Virology 审稿人
代表性论著：
1. Cong Zeng#, John P. Evans#, Karthik Chakravarthy#, Panke Qu, Sarah Reisinger, No Joon Song, Mark P. Rubinstein, Peter G. Shields, Zihai Li, Shan-Lu Liu. COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccines elicit strong protection against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in patients with cancer. Cancer Cell 40(2):117-119 (2022)
2. Cong Zeng, John P. Evans, Tiffany King, Yi-Min Zheng, Eugene M. Oltz, Sean P. J. Whelan, Linda J. Saif, Mark E. Peeples, Shan-Lu Liu. SARS-CoV-2 Spreads through Cell-to-Cell Transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (1): e2111400119 (2022)
3. John P. Evans#, Cong Zeng#, Panke Qu#, Julia Faraone, Yi-Min Zheng, Claire Carlin, Joseph S. Bednash,Tongqing Zhou, Gerard Lozanski, Rama Mallampalli, Linda J. Saif, Eugene M. Oltz, Peter J. Mohler, Kai Xu, Richard J. Gumina, Shan-Lu Liu. Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Sub-lineages BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2. Cell Host & Microbe In Press (2022)
4. Cong Zeng, Abdul A Waheed, Tianliang Li, Jingyou Yu, Yi-Min Zheng, Jacob Yount, Haitao Wen, Eric O Freed, Shan-Lu Liu. SERINC proteins potentiate antiviral type I IFN induction and proinflammatory signaling pathways. Science Signaling 14 (700) eabc7611 (2021)
5. Cong Zeng#, John Evans#, Julia Faraone, Panke Qu, Yi-Min Zheng, Linda Saif, Eugene Oltz, Gerard Lozanski, Richard Gumina, Shan-Lu Liu (2021) Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Harboring Q677H. mBio 12(5): e02510-21 (2021)