Email:zidingzhang@163.com

Position:Professor of Bioinformatics Group leader

Tel.: +86-(0)10-62734412

Addr.:College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, No.2, Yuanmingyuan West Rd., Haidian district, 100193, Beijing, China

Degree:P.H.D.

Country:China

Research Interests:

Computational Study on Proteins: Sequence, Structure,Interaction & Function

Educations:

Computational Study on Proteins: Sequence, Structure,Interaction & Function

1997 Tianjin University, China; MSc in Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering

1994 Tianjin University, China; BSc in Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering

Experiences:

11/2005 to Present College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University Professor of Bioinformatics

05/2002 to10/2005 Nestle Research Center, Switzerland Research Scientist in Bioinformatics & Molecular modeling

07/2000 to 04/2002 Dept. of Molecular Biophysics, Lund University, Sweden Post-Doctoral Fellow in Structural Bioinformatics

Teaching courses

Protein Structure Prediction

Structural Biology

Selective Publications

Zhang Z & Grigorov M (2006) Similarity networks of protein binding sites. Proteins, 62: 470-478.

Zhang Z, Kochhar S & Grigorov M (2005) Sequence descriptors based protein remote homology identification. Protein Sci. 14: 431-444.

Zhang Z, Kochhar S & Grigorov M (2003) Exploring the sequence-structure landscape in glycosyltransferase protein family. Protein Sci. 12: 2291-2302.

Zhang Z, Lindstam M, Unge J, Peterson C, Lu G. (2003) Potential for dramatic improvement in sequence alignment against structures of remote homologous proteins by extracting structural information from multiple structure alignment. J. Mol. Biol. 332: 127-142.

Zhang Z, He M & He Z (2001) Thermal stabilization mechanism of MPEG modified trypsin based on thermal inactivation analysis and molecular modeling calculation. J. Mol. Catalysis B: Enzymatics, 14: 89-98.

Zhang Z, Sun Z-R & Zhang C-T (2001) A new approach to predict the helix/strand content of globular protein. J. Theor. Biol. 208: 65-78.