Areas of Focus
- Bioinformatics and high-throughput sequencing methods
- Establishment and regulation mechanisms of new RNA modification methods
- Metagenomic data mining and synthetic biology
Work Experience
- 2022-present - Sun Yat-sen University - Associate Professor
- 2020-2022 - Sun Yat-sen University - Associate Researcher
- 2017-2020 - Sun Yat-sen University - Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2012-2017 PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Sun Yat-sen University
- Developed m6A-REF-seq method for single-base precision m6A sequencing
Publications
- Systematic calibration of epitranscriptomic maps using a synthetic modification-free RNA library, Zhang, Z., Chen, T., Chen, H.X., Xie, Y.Y., Chen, L.Q., Zhao, Y.L., Liu, B.D., ..., and Luo, G.Z., 2021
- Single-base mapping of m6A by an antibody-independent method, Zhang, Z., Chen, L.Q., Zhao, Y.L., Yang, C.G., Roundtree, I.A., Zhang, Z., Ren, J., Xie, W., He, C., and Luo, G.Z., 2019
- Systematic comparison of tools used for m6A mapping from nanopore direct RNA sequencing, Zhong, Z.D., Xie, Y.Y., Chen, H.X., Lan, Y.L., Liu, X.H., Ji, J.Y., Wu, F., Jin, L., Chen, J., Mak, DW, Zhang, Z., Luo, G.Z., 2023
- High-precision mapping reveals rare N6-deoxyadenosine methylation in the mammalian genome, Chen, L.Q., Zhang, Z., Chen, H.X., Xi, J.F., Liu, X.H., Ma, D.Z., Zhong, Y.H., ..., and Luo, G.Z., 2022
- Convergent adaptation of the genomes of woody plants at the land-sea interface, He, Z., Xu, S., Zhang, Z., Guo, W., Lyu, H., Zhong, C., Boufford, D.E., Duke, N.C., and Shi, S., 2020
- Mapping single-nucleotide m6A by m6A-REF-seq, Chen, H.X., Zhang, Z., Ma, D. Z., Chen, L.Q., and Luo, G.Z., 2021
- Establishment of transposase-assisted low-input m6A sequencing technique, Chen, T., Li, Y., Ma, D.Z., Zhang, Z., Xi, J.F., and Luo, G.Z., 2021
- The origin, diversification and adaptation of a major mangrove clade (Rhizophoreae) revealed by whole-genome sequencing, Xu, S., He, Z., Zhang, Z., Guo, Z., Guo, W., Lyu, H., Li, J., Yang, M., Du, Z., Huang, Y., et al., 2017
- Genome-wide convergence during evolution of mangroves from woody plants, Xu, S., He, Z., Guo, Z., Zhang, Z., Wyckoff, G.J., Greenberg, A., Wu, C.I., and Shi, S., 2017