Areas of Focus
- Exploration of food nutrition and health benefits
- Development of animal phenomics technology
- Research on the function and evolution of non-coding structural elements
Work Experience
- 2022-present - Deputy Editor at Briefings in Bioinformatics
- 2021-2022 - Associate Editor at Briefings in Bioinformatics
- 2016-present - Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Huazhong Agricultural University
- 2011-2016 - Postdoctoral Researcher at National Institutes of Health, USA
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2006-2011 Ph.D. in Biology: Peking University
- 2002-2006 Bachelor's in Biology: Huazhong Agricultural University
- 2003-2006 Bachelor's in Journalism: Wuhan University
Publications
- A Germline-specific Regulator of Mitochondrial Fusion is Required for Maintenance and Differentiation of Germline Stem and Progenitor Cells, Zhang R, Tu YX, Ye D, Gu Z, Chen ZX, Sun Y, 2022
- Dynamic Chromatin States Coupling with Key Transcription Factors in Colitis‐Associated Colorectal Cancer, Chen L, Luo Z, Zhao C, Li Q, Geng Y, Xiao Y, Chen MK, Li L, Chen ZX, Wu M, 2022
- Dynamic Spatial-temporal Expression Ratio of X Chromosome to Autosomes but Stable Dosage Compensation in Mammals, Qian SH, Xiong YL, Chen L, Geng YJ, Tang XM, Chen ZX, 2022
- DSEATM: drug set enrichment analysis uncovering disease mechanisms by biomedical text mining, Luo ZH, Zhu LD, Wang YM, Hu Qian S, Li M, Zhang W, Chen ZX, 2022
- G-quadruplexes in genomes of viruses infecting eukaryotes or prokaryotes are under different selection pressures from hosts, Li Z, Qian SH, Wang F, Mohamed HI, Yang G, Chen ZX, Wei D, 2022
- TDG is a pig-specific epigenetic regulator with insensitivity to H3K9 and H3K27 demethylation in nuclear transfer embryos, Liu X, Chen L, Wang T, Zhou J, Li Z, Bu G, Zhang J, Yin S, Wu D, Dou C et al., 2021
- GenOrigin: A comprehensive protein-coding gene origination database on the evolutionary timescale of life, Tong YB, Shi MW, Qian SH, Chen YJ, Luo ZH, Tu YX, Xiong YL, Geng YJ, Chen C, Chen ZX, 2021
- pyMeSHSim: an integrative python package for biomedical named entity recognition, normalization, and comparison of MeSH terms, Luo ZH, Shi MW, Yang Z, Zhang HY, Chen ZX, 2020
- Anti-masculinization induced by aromatase inhibitors in adult female zebrafish, Chen L, Wang L, Cheng Q, Tu YX, Yang Z, Li RZ, Luo ZH, Chen ZX, 2020
- SAGD: a comprehensive sex-associated gene database from transcriptomes, Shi MW, Zhang NA, Shi CP, Liu CJ, Luo ZH, Wang DY, Guo AY, Chen ZX, 2019
- Expressed Structurally Stable Inverted Duplicates in Mammalian Genomes as Functional Noncoding Elements, Chen ZX, Oliver B, Zhang YE, Gao G, Long M, 2017
- X Chromosome and Autosome Dosage Responses in Drosophila melanogaster Heads, Chen ZX, Oliver B, 2015
- Comparative validation of the D. melanogaster modENCODE transcriptome annotation, Chen ZX, Sturgill D, Qu J, Jiang H, Park S, Boley N, Suzuki AM, Fletcher AR, Plachetzki DC, FitzGerald PC et al., 2014
- Transcriptional effects of gene dose reduction, Chen ZX, Golovnina K, Sultana H, Kumar S, Oliver B, 2014
- Deficiency of X-linked inverted duplicates with male-biased expression and the underlying evolutionary mechanisms in the Drosophila genome, Chen ZX, Zhang YE, Vibranovski M, Luo J, Gao G, Long M, 2011
