Assistant Professor
Biography
In 2012, Fuzhong Zhang became a professor in the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the Kealsing Laboratory at the University of California-Berkeley and the Joint Bioenergy Institute.
Research
Professor Zhang’s research interests focus on applying synthetic biology, protein engineering and metabolic engineering approaches to produce pharmaceuticals and advanced biofuels from sustainable resources. Specifically, his interests include: (1) developing dynamic regulatory systems for biosynthetic pathways; (2) engineering cyanobacterial hosts for the production of advanced biofuels; (3) developing novel synthetic biology parts (including enzymes, sensors, control elements); (4) engineering microbes for environmental applications.
Selected Publications
Zhang, F., Carothers, J.M., Keasling, J.D., Design of a dynamic sensor-regulator system for production of chemicals and fuels derived from fatty acids.
Nat Biotechnol, 30, (4), 354-359 (2012)
Peralta-Yahya, P.P.*,
Zhang, F.*, del Cardayre, S.B.., Keasling, J.D., Microbial engineering for the producion of advanced biofuels.
Nature, 488, 74110, 320-328 (2012)
Zhang, F., Ouellet, M., Batth, T.S. Adams, P.D., Petzold, C.J., Mukhopadhyay, A., Keasling, J.D., Enhancing fatty acid production by the expression of the regulatory transcription factor FadR.
Metab Eng, 14, 653-660 (2012)
Zhang, F., Timm, K.A., Arndt, K.M., Woolley, G.A., Photocontrol of coiled-coil proteins in living cells.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 49, (23), 3943-3946 (2010)
Zhang, F., Zarrine-Afsar, A., Al-Abdul-Wahid, S., Prosser, R.S., Davidson, A.R., Woolley, G.A., A structure-based approach to the photo-control of protein folding. J Am Chem Soc., 131, (6), 2283-2289 (2009)
Selected Research