Xiaodong Zhang

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Xiaodong Zhang
FRS
Alma mater Peking University (BS)
Stony Brook University (PhD)
Awards EMBO Member (2016)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions Imperial College London
Harvard University
Francis Crick Institute
Thesis Development and applications of quantitative X-ray microscopy with chemical sensitivity  (1995)
Doctoral advisor Janos Kirz
David Sayre [1]
Other academic advisors Don Wiley [1]
Website www.imperial.ac.uk/people/xiaodong.zhang OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Xiaodong Zhang FRS is a Professor of Macromolecular Structure and Function at Imperial College London. [2] [3] [4]

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Education

Zhang was educated at Peking University and Stony Brook University where she was awarded a PhD in 1995 on X-ray microscopy [5] [6] supervised by Janos Kirz and David Sayre. [1]

Research and career

After a postdoctoral research position at Harvard University with Don Wiley she moved to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1997. [1] She was appointed a lecturer at Imperial College London in 2001, a Reader in 2005 and a Professor in 2008. [1]

Zhang's research investigates structural biology, transcription, DNA repair and AAA proteins, particularly ATPases. [2] [7] [8] [9]

Awards and honours

Zhang was awarded EMBO Membership in 2016 [10] and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024. [11]

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References

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  3. Xiaodong Zhang publications from Europe PubMed Central
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  5. H. Ade; X. Zhang; S. Cameron; C. Costello; J. Kirz; S. Williams (1 November 1992). "Chemical contrast in X-ray microscopy and spatially resolved XANES spectroscopy of organic specimens". Science . 258 (5084): 972–975. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1439809. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   1439809. Wikidata   Q33192880.
  6. Zhang, Xiaodong (1995). Development and applications of quantitative X-ray microscopy with chemical sensitivity (PhD thesis). State University of New York at Stony Brook. OCLC   34172302. ProQuest   304205915.
  7. Juan Luis Ramos Martín; Manuel Martinez Bueno; Antonio J Molina-Henares; et al. (1 June 2005). "The TetR family of transcriptional repressors". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews . 69 (2): 326–356. doi:10.1128/MMBR.69.2.326-356.2005. ISSN   1092-2172. PMC   1197418 . PMID   15944459. Wikidata   Q28255343.
  8. X Zhang; A Shaw; P A Bates; et al. (December 2000). "Structure of the AAA ATPase p97". Molecular Cell . 6 (6): 1473–84. doi:10.1016/S1097-2765(00)00143-X. ISSN   1097-2765. PMID   11163219. Wikidata   Q27629334.
  9. Peng Wang; Fangdong Zou; Xiaodong Zhang; et al. (13 October 2009). "microRNA-21 negatively regulates Cdc25A and cell cycle progression in colon cancer cells". Cancer Research . 69 (20): 8157–8165. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-1996. ISSN   0008-5472. PMC   2763324 . PMID   19826040. Wikidata   Q41412917.
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