Experience November 2014–Present, Principal Investigator/Staff Associate, Department of Embryology, Carnegie

Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD December 2013–October 2014, Post-doctoral research with Dr. Phillip Zamore, Howard Hughes Medical

Institute/University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA September 2008–November 2013, Graduate research jointly with Dr. Phillip Zamore and Dr. William

Theurkauf, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

Education Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA,

November 2013 Programming for Biology Course, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, October 2011 M.S., Cell Biology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, July 2008 B.S., Biotechnology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai-an, China, July 2005

Award and Honor No award. No honor.

PublicationsZhang Z, Wang J, Schultz N, Zhang F, Parhad SP, Tu S, Vreven T, Zamore PD, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE. Rhi

anchors a nuclear complex that suppresses piRNA precursor splicing. Cell. 2014 157: 1353-1363. (PMCID:PMC4167631).

Zhang Z, Koppetsch, BS, Wang J, Tipping C, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE, Zamore PD. Antisense piRNA amplification, but not piRNA production or nuage assembly, requires the Tudor-domain protein Qin. EMBO Journal. 2014 33: 536-539. (PMCID:PMC3989648).

Zhang Z, Theurkauf WE, Weng Z, Zamore PD. Strand-specific libraries for high throughput sequencing of RNA (RNA-Seq) prepared without poly(A) selection. Silence. 2012 28;3(1)9. (PMCID: PMC3552703).

Zhang, F, Wang, J., Xu., J., Zhang, Z., Koppetsch, B., Schultz, N., Vreven, T., Meignin, C., Davis, I., Zamore, P. D., Weng, Z. and Theurkauf WE. UAP56 couples piRNA clusters to the perinuclear transposon silencing machinery. Cell. 2012 9;151(4):871-84. (PMCID: PMC3499805).

Zhang Z, Xu J, Koppetsch, BS, Wang J, Tipping C, Ma S, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE, Zamore PD. Heterotypic piRNA Ping-Pong requires Qin, a protein with both E3-ligase and Tudor domains. Molecular Cell. 2011 18;44(4):572-84 (Featured article, PMCID: PMC3236501).

Xu A, Hao J, Zhang Z, Tian T, Jiang S, Hao J, Liu C, Huang L, Xiao X, He D. 14-kDa phosphohistidine phosphatase and its role in human lung cancer cell migration and invasion. Lung Cancer. 2010 Jan;67(1):48-56

Zhao Zhang, Ph.D. Principal Investigator Staff Associate

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zhang@ciwemb.edu

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Carnegie Institution Department of Embryology Biological Research for the 21st Century

Tushir JS, Zamore PD, Zhang Z. SnapShot: Mouse piRNAs, PIWI proteins, and the ping-pong cycle. Cell. 2009 13;139(4):830-830.e1.

Tushir JS, Zamore PD, Zhang Z. SnapShot: Fly piRNAs, PIWI proteins, and the ping-pong cycle. Cell. 2009; 139(3):634-634.e1.

Zhang Z*, Chen J*, Guo F, He L, Wu Y, Zeng C, Xiao X, He D. A high-temporal resolution technology for dynamic proteomic analysis based on 35S labeling. PLoS One. 2008 ;3(8):e2991. (* equal contribution, PMCID: PMC2500177)

Invited Talks November 2014, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo RNA Club/The University of Tokyo November 2014, Yokohama, Japan, 37th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan February 2014, Seattle, Washington, Keystone Symposia, ‘RNA Silencing’ January 2014, Baltimore, MD, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Embryology October 2013, Cambridge, MA, MIT/Whitehead Institute June 2013, Boston, MA, Harvard University Medical School May 2013, Vienna, Austria, the 8th Microsymposium on small RNAs January 2013, Worcester, MA, the 17th UMass Medical School Annual Basic Science Research Retreat October 2012, Beijing, China, Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Zoology October 2012, Shanghai, China, Tongji University, School of Life Science and Technology October 2012, Shanghai, China, Fudan University, School of Life Science October 2012, Shanghai, China, Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology October 2012, Suzhou, China, Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences---RNA Biology October 2006, Beijing, China, the 5th Asian-Pacific Organization for Cell Biology Congress !