ZHANG Zhihua

Assistant Professor
Laboratory of Genome Sciences & Information
Beijing Institute of Genomics
China

Professor Genetics
Biography

Dr. ZHANG Zhihua is a principal investigator at Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is an editorial board member of journal Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics since 2012. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. degree from Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2006-2011, Postdoctoral programs at University of Michigan, The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the University of Texas at Dallas, where he devoted most of his time to studies of computational system biology; In 2011, he joined BIG as a PI for evolutionary and computational systems biology and was selectively supported by the CAS “100-talent Program”. He has undertaken many projects from 863, 973, General Program of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) etc.  ZHANG’s lab combines the methods of computational systems biology with the cutting-edge experimental technologies to study the structure and function of 3D genome

Research Intrest

Genome, Tumorgenesis, Diabetes

List of Publications
Zhihua Zhang and Jianzhi Zhang (2008). Accuracy and application of the motif expression decomposition method in dissecting transcriptional regulation. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(10):3185-3193.
Zhihua Zhang, Michael Q Zhang (2011). Histone modification profiles are predictive for both protein-coding and microRNA gene’s tissue/cell-type specific expression. BMC Bioinfomatics 12:155.
Rongxin Fang,* Chengqi Wang,* Geir Skogerbo, and Zhihua Zhang (2015). Functional diversity of CTCFs is encoded in their binding motifs. BMC Genomics. 16(1): 649.
Zhang Zhihua. A Key to Genome Maze in 3D. Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics. 14, 4-6 (2016).