Education:
- PhD (Chemistry), Stanford University, USA, 2023
- BS (Chemistry), Tsinghua University, China, 2016
Research Interests:
- Enzyme catalysis
- Protein biophysics
- Protein design and engineering
- Biomolecular modeling
Selected Publications
- Zheng, C.*; Mao, Y.*; Kozuch, J.; Atsango, A. O.; Ji, Z.; Markland, T. E.; Boxer, S. G. A two-directional vibrational probe reveals different electric field orientations in solution and an enzyme active site. Nature Chemistry 2022, 14, 891-897.
- Zheng, C.*; Ji, Z.*; Mathews, I. I.; Boxer, S. G. Enhanced active-site electric field accelerates enzyme catalysis. Nature Chemistry 2023, 15, 1715-1721.
- Zheng, C.*; Mao, Y.*; Markland, T. E.; Boxer, S. G. Beyond the vibrational Stark effect: unraveling the large redshifts of alkyne C-H bond in solvation environments. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 6227-6235.
- Zheng, C.; Rubio, A. A.; Vasquez, S.; Pham, D.; Pan, Z.; Barnes, C. O.; Kim, P. S. Oriented multivalent display drives consistent serum immunodominance to the Ebola virus glycoprotein. ACS Central Science 2026, 12, 100-110.
(*: equal contribution)