Faculty

DBBS mentors and educators are key to our training mission. Those who serve as primary mentors are DBBS Program Members, and others who participate in the educational mission are General Members. Learn about DBBS Faculty Membership »

To provide a supportive learning environment for our trainees, many DBBS-affiliated faculty have completed eight or more hours of CIMER-based mentorship training with a trained facilitator, as indicated below with a profile badge.

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Bo Aber Zhang

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary

Key words
Bioinformatics, epigenetics

Fuzhong Zhang, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Synthetic biology for advanced biofuels, biomaterials, and chemicals.

Key words
Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering, regulatory systems, biomaterials

Jin Zhang, PhD, MPHS

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Deep learning; AI; Multi-omics; Translational cancer research; Cancer; Genomics; Imaging

Key words
RNA-seq, WGS, genomics, sequencing, deep learning, machine learning, artificial intelligence, AI, bioinformatics, computational biology, algorithm, multi-omics, cancer, HPV, radiation, PET, MRI, image

Linying Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
My research integrates causal modeling and machine learning to improve the reliability of real-world evidence generation and to improve the trustworthiness of AI-based clinical algorithms.

Key words
causal inference, machine learning, artificial intelligence, electronic health records, clinical informatics

Ru Zhang, PhD

Assistant Member

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Understand how photosynthesis and photosynthetic cells respond to high temperatures and what factors limit heat acclimation by using both green algae and land plants as models

Key words
Photosynthesis, heat stress, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, C4 plant Setaria viridis

Rui Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Cryo-EM study of native macromolecular complexes related to microtubule and cilia

Key words

Ting Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Research summary
We use a multidisciplinary discovery pipeline that consists of next generation sequencing, bacterial genetics, host genetics and metabolomics to characterize how infection-stimulated bile components regulate intestinal functions

Key words
Metabolite, Bacterial pathogen, host pathogen interaction

Guoyan Zhao, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Neurosciences

Research summary
Understand the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration through integrated genomic and network inference approaches.

Key words
computational biology, neurogenomics, transcription regulation, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson disease

Xuehua Zhong, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation

Key words
Epigenetics, DNA methylation, Histone modification, gene silencing

Chao Zhou, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Cancer Biology

Research summary
Developing novel optical imaging technologies for biomedical applications including cancer research and tissue engineering

Key words
Biophotonics, medical instrumentation, imaging sciences, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and microscopy (OCM) and optogenetic pacing

Ofer Zimmerman, MD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Human susceptibility to infectious diseases, virology, primary immunodeficiency disorders.

Key words

Gregory Zipfel, MD

Ralph G. Dacey Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Neurosurgery

Program affiliation
Neurosciences

Research summary
Mechanisms and novel therapeutics for cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cerebral vasospasm

Key words
cerebral amyloid angiopathy, vascular dementia, Alzheimer`s disease, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral vasospasm, delayed cerebral ischemia, cerebral blood flow

Paul Zolkind, MD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary

Key words

Charles Zorumski, MD

Samuel B. Guze Professor and Head

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Modulation of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission

Key words
synapse biology, ion channel, glutamate, GABA

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