Yi Zhang
Ph.D.
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Quantitative biology
- High-throughput screening
- Protein engineering
- Ultrasensitive bioanalysis
- Micro-total analysis systems
EDUCATION
- 2008-2013
- Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University
- 2008-2013
- Joint Training Doctoral Student, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2007-2008
- Exchange Student, Hiroshima University
- 2004-2008
- B.S., School of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- 1998-2004
- Middle school & high school, Jinan Foreign Language School
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2019-present
- Scientist, Super-cutting-edge Grand and Advanced Research Program, JAMSTEC
- 2018-2019
- Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- 2017-2019
- Scientist, Frontier Research Group, R&D Center for Marine Biosciences, JAMSTEC
- 2016-2017
- Researcher, ImPACT Program, The University of Tokyo
- 2015-2016
- Researcher, JST CREST, The University of Tokyo
- 2013-2015
- JSPS Fellow, The University of Tokyo
HONORS
- 2013-2015
- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers
- 2012
- Pacemaker to Outstanding Students, Peking University
- 2008
- Outstanding Graduate Student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS
INVITED LECTURES
- Yi Zhang (2019) "Interdisciplinary approaches for the development of protein discovery tools", 97th Young Scientist Forum on Life Science, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka
- Yi Zhang (2019) "Accurate high-throughput screening based on digital protein synthesis in a massively parallel femtoliter droplet array", Fourth Microbial Single Cell Genomics Workshop, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA
- Yi Zhang (2019) "Digital protein screening", 4th Okazaki Molecular Engine Seminar, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan [Japanese]
- Yi Zhang (2016) "Development of a highly parallel femtoliter chamber array system for directed evolution of proteins", Workshop for ImPACT Program (Cabinet Office & JST), TKP Ichigaya Conference Center, Tokyo, Japan [Japanese]
- Yi Zhang, et al.(2012)"Multiplexed and label-free detection platform combining LSPR and microfluidics", 25th International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference (MNC), Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel, Kobe, Japan
SELECTED PATENTS
- Yi Zhang, et al. CN202512120U
- Yi Zhang, et al. CN103272656B
- Yi Zhang, et al. CN103185696B
FUNDINGS
- 2020-2021 Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation
- 2018-2020 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
- 2013-2015 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow