Education
- PhD (Chem. and Pharm. Eng.) Singapore-MIT Alliance, 2012
- BEng (Chem. Eng.) Tianjin University, 2007
Research Interests
- Metabolic engineering
- Engineering microbes to utilize non-conventional substrates
- Converting renewable substrates into food ingredients
- Biosynthesis of bio-pesticides and other chemicals for urban farming
- Developing new computational and molecular biology tools for metabolic engineering
Selected Publications
X. Han, W. Ning, X. Ma, X. Wang*, K. Zhou*, “Improving protein solubility and activity by introducing small peptide tags designed with machine learning models”, Meta. Eng. Commun.2020, Jun 22:e00138 (the link)
Y.Liu, Z. Low, X. Ma, H. Liang, A. Sinskey,G. Stephanopoulos,K. Zhou* “Using biopolymer bodies for encapsulation of hydrophobic products in bacterium”, Meta. Eng. 2020 (the link)
Y. Cui, J. He, K. Yang*, K. Zhou*, “Production of isopropyl and butyl esters byClostridium mono-culture and co-culture”, J. Ind. Microbiol. & Biotechnol.2020 (the link)
X. Ma, G. Gözaydın, H. Yang, W. Ning, X. Han, N. Poon, H. Liang, N. Yan*, K. Zhou*, “Upcycling chitin-containing waste into organonitrogen chemicals via an integrated process”Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.2020, 117 (14), 7719-7728 (the link)
X. Ma, H. Liang, X. Cui, Y. Liu, H. Lu, W. Ning, N. Poon, B. Ho, K. Zhou*,“A standard for near-scarless plasmid construction using reusable DNA parts”,Nat. Commun. 2019, 10(1):1-2 (the link)