EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2002.9-2006.7 College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, B.S. 2006.8-2011.5 Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Ph.D 2011.8-2012.1 College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Assistant Professor 2012.1-2015.8 College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Associate Professor 2015.8-now College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS Molecular Evolution, Biosensing, Signal Amplification, Microfluidics, Bioenergy
HONORS AND AWARDS 2016, Young Top-notch Creative Talent of Fujian Province 2015, 2nd Class Prize of Technological Invention Award of Xiamen (2nd rank)
ACADEMIC SERVICES Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS [1] Ma, Y; Mao, Y; Huang, D; He, Z; Yan, J; Tian, T; Shi, Y; Song, Y; Li, X; Zhu, Z*; Zhou, L; Yang, C. “Portable Visual Quantitative Detection of Aflatoxin B1 Using a Target-Responsive Hydrogel and Distance-Readout Microfluidic Chip.” Lab Chip, 2016, 16, 3097-3104. [2] Tian, T; Li, J; Song,Y; Zhou, L; Zhu, Z*; Yang, C*. “Distance-based Microfluidic Quantitative Detection Methods for Point-of-Care Testing.” Lab Chip, 2016, 16, 1139-1151. [3] Zhu, Z; Guan, Z; Liu, D; Jia, S; Li, J; Lei, Z; Lin, S; Ji, T; Tian, Z; Yang, C. “Translating Molecular Recognition into a Pressure Signal to enable Rapid, Sensitive, and Portable Biomedical Analysis.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 10448-10453. (co-first author) (Frontipiece Paper) [4] Huang, Y; Ma, Y; Chen, Y; Wu, X; Fang, L; Zhu, Z*; Yang, C*. “Target-Responsive DNAzyme Crosslinked Hydrogel for Visual Quantitative Detection of Lead.” Anal. Chem., 2014, 86, 11434–11439. [5] Zhu, Z; Guan, Z; Jia, S; Lei, Z; Lin, S; Zhang, H; Ma, Y; Tian, Z-Q; Yang, C. “Au@Pt Nanoparticle Encapsulated Target-responsive Hydrogel with Volumetric Bar-chart Chip Readout for Quantitative Point-of-care Testing.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 12503–12507. (co-first author) [6] Zhu, Z; Song Y; Li, C; Zou, Y; Zhu, L; An, Y; Yang, C. “Monoclonal Surface Display SELEX for Simple, Rapid, Efficient and Cost-Effective Aptamer Enrichment and Identification.” Anal. Chem., 2014, 86, 5881-5888. (co-first author) [7] Song, Y; Zhu, Z*; An, Y; Zhang, W; Zhang, H; Liu, D; Yu, C; Duan, W*; Yang, C*. “Selection of DNA Aptamers against Epithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule for Cancer Imaging and Circulating Tumor Cell Capturing.” Anal. Chem., 2013, 85, 4141-4149. [8] Yan, L; Zhu, Z; Zou, Y; Huang, Y; Liu, D; Jia, S; Xu, D; Wu, M; Zhou, Y; Zhou, S; Yang, C. “Target-responsive ‘Sweet’ Hydrogel with Glucometer Readout for Portable and Quantitative Detection of Non-glucose Targets.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 3748-3751. (co-first author) (Cover paper & JACS Spotlights) [9] Han, D; Zhu, Z; Wu, C; Peng, L; Zhou, L; Gulbakan, B; Zhu, G; Williams, K R; Tan, W. “A Logical Molecular Circuit for Programmable and Autonomous Regulation of Protein Activity Using DNA Aptamer–Protein Interactions.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 20797-20804. (co-first author)(ACS C&EN News) [10] Zhu, Z; Zhang, W; Leng, X; Zhang, M; Guan, Z; Yang, C. “Highly Sensitive and Quantitative Detection of Rare Pathogens through Agarose Droplet Microfluidic Emulsion PCR at the Single-Cell Level.” Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 3907-3913. (co-first author)
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