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Director Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Genomics to Improve Poultry (GIP)
National Poultry Genome Coordinator, USDA
University of California-Davis, USA
Prof. Zhou’s research program applies genetic, genomic, epigenomic and bioinformatics technologies to address important biological questions, apply the knowledge to improve global food security, production efficiency, and food safety, and currently lead international efforts on annotating of livestock genomes. His main research program has focused on genetic resistance to pathogen, the molecular and cellular mechanisms of host–pathogen interaction in chickens, functional annotation of regulatory elements in farm animal species, and comparative epigenomic research. His recent work on conservation of cis-regulatory elements across mammalian species including humans provides novel insights of tissue-specific functional elements for studying human diseases using appropriate animal model. He has received more than $31 million ($20 million as a PI) in funding from USAID, USDA, NIH, and livestock industries. Zhou is the Program Director of USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Genomics to Improve Poultry targeting both East and West African countries, under the US Government’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative. Zhou has published 135 full-length papers including Nature, Science, Nature Communications, Genome Research, Genome Biology, Cell Host & Microbe et al., 6 book chapters and 220 abstracts and conference proceedings. His work has received significant accolades and he was honored Hy-Line International Research Award (2010), PSA Early Achievement Award for Research (2011), Evonik Degussa Award for Achievement in Poultry Science (2016), Zoetis Fundamental Science Award (2018), and Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement, Prize of Outstanding Achievement in Science (AAFC) (2020).
University of British Columbia, Canada
Carleton University, Canada
Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Academy Sciences of Uzbekistan
Suez Canal University, Egypt
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/University of California-Davis, USA
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
National University of Singapore
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. Trieste, Italy
University College Cork Ireland
Shenzhen University, China
Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies, Cameroon
National Laboratory for Health, Environment and Food (NLZOH), Slovenia
University of Primorska, Slovenia
Long Island University, USA
Henan University, China
University of California-Davis, USA
University of California-Santa Cruz, USA
Center for Advanced Technologies, Ministry of Innovative Development of Uzbekistan
Institute of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Münster, Germany
University of Mumbai, India
Malaysia Genome Institute, National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia
National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic
Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University , Kazakhstan
Faculty of Biology, Yerevan State University, Armenia