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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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Paul Zolkind, MD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
General

Research summary

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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