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Name

Wen Zhou

Contact Information

zhouw@sustech.edu.cn

Language ability

Chinese, English

Province

Guangdong

University/Lab Affiliation and Title	Southern University of Science and Technology
Faculty	Life Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements	2009-2017 PhD in Developmental Biology: Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017 PhD Thesis Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017 President's Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Work Experience	2021.04-Present - Southern University of Science and Technology, Assistant Professor 2017.07-2021.03 - Harvard Medical School / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow
Awards	2020 Charles A. King Trust Fellowship Award 2019 Benacerraf Postdoctoral Fellowship Award 2019 Harvard Chinese Life Sciences Distinguished Research Award

University/Lab Affiliation and Title

Southern University of Science and Technology

Faculty

Life Sciences

Academic Background & Achievements

Work Experience

2021.04-Present - Southern University of Science and Technology, Assistant Professor
2017.07-2021.03 - Harvard Medical School / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow

Awards

Areas of Focus	Phase separation in immune signaling Discovery of new receptors involved in nucleic acid immune response
Publications	Structure of the human cGAS–DNA complex reveals enhanced control of immune surveillance, Zhou W, et al., 2018 cGAS phase separation inhibits TREX1-mediated DNA degradation and enhances cytosolic DNA sensing, Zhou W, et al., 2021 PPR-SMR protein SOT1 has RNA endonuclease activity, Zhou W, et al., 2017 Analysis of human cGAS activity and structure, Zhou W, et al., 2019 Phosphoinositide Interactions Position cGAS at the Plasma Membrane to Ensure Efficient Distinction between Self- and Viral DNA, Zhou W, et al., 2019

Areas of Focus

Phase separation in immune signaling
Discovery of new receptors involved in nucleic acid immune response

Publications

Structure of the human cGAS–DNA complex reveals enhanced control of immune surveillance, Zhou W, et al., 2018
cGAS phase separation inhibits TREX1-mediated DNA degradation and enhances cytosolic DNA sensing, Zhou W, et al., 2021
PPR-SMR protein SOT1 has RNA endonuclease activity, Zhou W, et al., 2017
Analysis of human cGAS activity and structure, Zhou W, et al., 2019
Phosphoinositide Interactions Position cGAS at the Plasma Membrane to Ensure Efficient Distinction between Self- and Viral DNA, Zhou W, et al., 2019

Phase Separation Immune Signaling Biomolecular Condensates Pathogens Stress Cancer Nucleic Acids Dna Rna Receptors

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