Areas of Focus
- Dietary and nutritional interventions to delay aging and their molecular mechanisms
- Dietary and nutritional interventions to regulate immunity and their molecular mechanisms
Work Experience
- 2018-2022 - Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Colorado and Tsinghua University
- Since October 2022 - Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Agriculture and Biology
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2018 - PhD in Food Science and Engineering from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
- Joint PhD training at the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, USA (2014-2018)
Publications
- Cysteine protease cathepsin B mediates radiation-induced bystander effects, Peng, Y.*, Zhang, M.*, Zheng, L.J.*, Liang, Q.*, Li, H.Z*., Chen, J.T., Guo, H., Yoshina, S. Chen, Y.Z., Zhao, X., Wu, X.Q., Liu, B., Mitani, S., Yu, J.S., and Xue, D., 2017
- Cathepsin B inhibitors block multiple radiation-induced side effects in C. elegans, Zheng, L.J., Wu, X.Q., Li, S. et al., 2019
- Honeybee as a food nutrition analysis model of neural development and gut microbiota, Yajun Huang, Na Li, Chengfeng Yang, Yan Lin, Yuxi Wen, Lingjun Zheng*, Chao Zhao*, 2023