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Xiaoxiao Zhang conducted PhD studies in a structural biology laboratory at the University of Queensland from 2012 to 2015, focusing on the combined areas of protein biochemistry and structural biology to reveal the structures of key proteins involved in plant and animal innate immunity. Her research includes the roles of proteins acting as signaling activators in plant effector-triggered immunity and human innate immunity in neuronal diseases. She later worked as a postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO Agriculture & Food from 2015 to 2018, where she further studied plant disease immunity in complex plant systems. Dr. Zhang has developed pipelines to investigate structural hypotheses related to plant-pathogen interactions and plant immune signaling. Recently, she has integrated developments in both plant and animal immunity to engineer chimeric proteins, uncovering fundamental immune signaling mechanisms across biological contexts. Currently, she is the Group Leader at the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University and received the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council in 2021 to use synthetic biology for engineering novel disease resistance in cereal crops.
Australian National University • Canberra
Group Leader at Research School of Chemistry overseeing research in protein engineering and synthetic biology.
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