Biography
Dr. Zheng Zuo
Dr. Zheng Zuo
Washington University, USA
Biography: 
Zheng Zuo is a current postdoctoral researcher in Stormo Lab, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He holds PhD of Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and BS of Physics from Peking University respectively. During his PhD years, he successfully developed a high-throughput sequencing based method, Spec-seq, to quantify transcription factor-DNA interaction specificity in high-throughput way with unprecedented resolution up to 0.1kT. Working with his colleague Yiming Chang and collaborator Dr. Jauch, this approach was generalized to study protein-protein interaction, such as Oct4 and Sox2, called Coop-seq.Most recently, he is combining Spec-seq with other newly developed technique, such as competitive fluorescent anisotropy, to address some molecular mechanism related to human disease, e.g., transient neonatal diabetes. At the same time, he proved that modified version of Spec-seq can detect methylation sensitivity of protein-DNA interaction, i.e., Methyl-Spec-seq. He was awarded Cold Spring Harbor Asia Fellowship in Suzhou, Oct 2014. Besides work, he practices triathlon in spare time and won age group first place in Annual JCC indoor triathlon, Feb 2017.