Yaoqi Zhou
Professor
Institute for Glycomics
Griffith University
Australia
Biography
Yaoqi Zhou received his BS in Chemical Physics from University of Science and Technology of China and PhD in Chemical Physics from State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA in 1990. He conducted his postdoctoral studies at North-Carolina State University and Harvard University. He was an Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at Department of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, from 2000 to 2006, and a full Professor at Schools of Informatics and Medicine, Indiana University, USA, from 2006 to 2013. He joined the Institute for Glycomics at Griffith University as a Professor of Computational Biology in 2013. His group has developed more than 10 popular bioinformatics tools including prediction of glycan-binding proteins.
Research Interest
His research interest includes development of computational algorithms and bioinformatics techniques that predict structural and functional properties of proteins and RNAs, discriminate disease-causing from neutral genetic variations, and design small molecule and peptide inhibitors for antibiotic, antiviral and anti-cancer therapeutics.