Ping Zhu, Ph.D.
Professor, Principal Investigator under “100 Talents” program
National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
EDUCATION AND DEGREES:
1997 Ph.D., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
1993 M.S., Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
1990 B S., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
2008.06 – Present, Professor, Principal Investigator under "100 Talents" program, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
1999.03 – 2008.05, Postdoc, Assist. in Research(NTTF), Associate Research Scientist/Scholar (NTTF), Dept. of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
1997.06 – 1998.12, Lecturer, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1) Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and electron tomography
2) Molecular mechanism of virus assembly, infection and replication
3) Chromatin structure and the epigenetic regulation mechanism
