Areas of Focus
- Nanobiotechnology in plant science
- Precision biobreeding
Work Experience
- 2022-present - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Agriculture and Biology, Associate Professor
- 2020-2022 - Jinan University, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Assistant Professor
- 2017-2020 - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley (Collaborator: Markita Landry)
- 2014-2017 - Assistant Researcher, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2014-2017 PhD: Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Supervisor: Chunhai Fan)
- 2005-2009 Bachelor: Ludong University
Publications
- Nanoparticle Cellular Internalization is Not Required for RNA Delivery to Mature Plant Leaves, Huan Zhang, Natalie S Goh, Jeffrey Wang, Gozde S Demirer, Salwan Butrus, So-Jung Park, Markita Landry, 2022
- Gold Nanocluster Mediated Delivery of siRNA to Intact Plant Cells for Efficient Gene Knockdown, Huan Zhang, Yuhong Cao, Dawei Xu, Natalie S Goh, Gozde S Demirer, Stefano Cestellos-Blanco, Yuan Chen, Markita P. Landry, Peidong Yang, 2021
- Engineering DNA nanostructures for siRNA delivery in plants, Huan Zhang, Honglu Zhang, Gozde S. Demirer, Eduardo González-Grandío, Chunhai Fan, Markita P. Landry, 2020
- DNA Nanostructures Coordinate Gene Silencing in Mature Plants, Huan Zhang, Gozde S. Demirer, Honglu Zhang, Tianzheng Ye, Natalie S. Goh, Abhishek J. Aditham, Francis J. Cunningham, Chunhai Fan, Markita P. Landry, 2019
- Carbon nanotube-mediated DNA delivery without transgene integration in intact plants, Gozde S. Demirer, Huan Zhang, Natalie S. Goh, Markita P. Landry, 2019
- Programming chain-growth co-polymerization of DNA hairpin tiles for in-vitro hierarchical supramolecular organization, Honglu Zhang, Yu Wang, Huan Zhang, Xiaoguo Liu, Antony Lee, Jie Chao, Huajie Liu, Jiang li, Jiye Shi, Lihua Wang, Lianhui Wang, Xiaoyu Cao, Carlos Bustamante, Zhongqun Tian, Chunhai Fan, 2019
- High Aspect Ratio Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Functional Genetic Material Without Transgenic DNA Integration in Mature Plants, Gozde S. Demirer, Huan Zhang, Juliana L. Matos, Natalie Goh, Francis Cunningham, Younghun Sung, Roger Chang, Abhishek J. Aditham, Linda Chio, Myeong-Je Cho, Brian Staskawicz, Markita P. Landry, 2019
- Nanotubes effectively deliver siRNA to intact plant cells and protect siRNA against nuclease degradation, Gozde S. Demirer, Huan Zhang, Natalie S. Goh, Markita P. Landry, 2020
