Prof. Zhemin ZHOUis a Distinguished Professor of Soochow University, a Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province, and an Honorary Scholar of the University of Warwick, UK. He has been engaged in microbiomics, microbial population genetics and bioinformatics research for a long time, and has published 59 papers in major international journals, such as Lancet Microbe, Nature Microbiology, Nature Food, Nature Communications, PNAS, Genome Research, Current Biology, etc., with a total of 730 citations. He has published 78 papers in international academic journals, with a total of 7940 citations and an H-factor of 43. He has been invited to review manuscripts for top international academic journals, such as PNAS, Nature Communications, Cell Report, and mBio.

Major Contributions:

- Establishment of cgMLST and outbreak traceability system for a variety of important foodborne disease pathogens, including Salmonella and E. coli, and establishment of the world's largest genotyping database, EnteroBase, which has been widely used by public health agencies in more than 70 countries. EnteroBase is widely used by public health organisations in more than 70 countries, and is recommended by F1000prime as the answer to the data overload problem in the genome era.

- Direct sequencing of DNA from ancient microorganisms to reconstruct the causative agent of an important human disease, paratyphoid C. In collaboration with the Planck Institute in Germany, we have identified the causative agent of the plague that led to the collapse of Aztec society in Mexico in the 16th century, which has been reported as a news item in Nature.

- Identification of the genetic background and drug resistance of the causative strain of the Mycoplasma pneumoniae pandemic in Chinese children in autumn and winter 2023. Related discoveries were widely reported by public media such as Clove and Intellectual.

Research Directions:

1. genomics and metagenomics based epidemiological clinical detection and disease outbreak surveillance traceability technology;

2. patterns and evolutionary dynamics of species origin, lineage differentiation and global spread of pathogenic microorganisms;

3. the interaction between ancient human symbiotic microorganisms and human evolutionary history and social evolution;

Admission direction:Cell Biology, Bioinformatics

Contact:0512-65880301

E-mail:zmzhou@suda.edu.cn