Areas of Focus
- Development of immune repertoire sequencing technology and its application in autoimmune diseases, tumors, and health
Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher - Columbia University and NIH Vaccine Research Center (nearly 3 years)
- Vice Chairman - Bioinformatics Branch of the Chinese Society of Biotechnology
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2011 - PhD in Bioinformatics: Pennsylvania State University
- 2014 - Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction Award
Publications
- Tools for fundamental analysis functions of TCR repertoires: a systematic comparison, Zhang Y, Yang X, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Wang M, Ou JX, Zhu Y, Zeng H, Wu J, Lan C, Zhou HW, Yang W, Zhang Z, 2020
- The Biological Significance of Multi-copy Regions and Their Impact on Variant Discovery, Sun J, Zhang Y, Wang M, Guan Q, Yang X, Ou JX, Yan M, Wang C, Zhang Y, Li ZH, Lan C, Mao C, Zhou HW, Hao B, Zhang Z, 2020
- A packing mechanism for nucleosome organization reconstituted across a eukaryotic genome, Zhang Z, Wippo CJ, Wal M, Ward E, Korber P, Pugh BF, 2011
- High-resolution genome-wide mapping of the primary structure of chromatin, Zhang Z, Pugh BF, 2011
- Maturation and Diversity of the VRC01-Antibody Lineage over 15 Years of Chronic HIV-1 Infection, Wu X, Zhang Z, Schramm CA, Joyce MG, Kwon YD, Zhou T, Sheng Z, Zhang B, O'Dell S, McKee K, Georgiev IS, Chuang GY, Longo NS, Lynch RM, Saunders KO, Soto C, Srivatsan S, Yang Y, Bailer RT, Louder MK, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Mullikin JC, Connors M, Kwong PD, Mascola JR, Shapiro L, 2015
- SONAR: A High-Throughput Pipeline for Inferring Antibody Ontogenies from Longitudinal Sequencing of B Cell Transcripts, Schramm CA, Sheng Z, Zhang Z, Mascola JR, Kwong PD, Shapiro L, 2016
Awards
- 2014: National Overseas Youth Expert
- 2014: Guangdong May Fourth Youth Medal