Weil mir dein Wort die Hoffnung beut.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
-- Marie Curie More quotes of MC
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
-- Albert Einstein
More quotes of AE
Research Interests
My fascination is actually in evolutionary biology. I always dream to be an evolutionary biologist one day. Fortunately, I am now working on phylogenetics research. I hope to explore research opportunities in evolutionary biology, where I can apply my expertise in Mathematics and Bioinformatics.
Education
- 9/2004-9/2009: PhD in Bioinformatics,Zhejiang University,
joint education with Fudan University (2005-2007) and University of Georgia (2007-2009).
Dissertation:Identification and analyses of functional elements in plant genomics
Major advisors: Prof. Bailin Hao and Prof. Ying Xu.
- 9/2000-7/2004: B.S. in Mathematics (with honor),
Zhejiang University.
Bechelor Thesis: Exact distribution of the occurrence number for K-tuples
Thesis advisors: Prof. Bailin Hao(FDU) and Prof. Huimin Xie(SZU).
- 8/2005: Complexity System Summer School, held by SantaFe Institute &
Institute of Theoretical Physics of
Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), at Beijing, PRC.
- 8/2005: Plant Molecular Cell Biology Summer School, held by Peking University, PRC.
- 8/2004: Evolutional Genomics Summer School, held by Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) of CAS, PRC.
Academic services
Reviews for journals: Plos One, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Nucleic Acids Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics.
Reviews for conferences: CSB 2010
Publications
- [7]Chan Zhou, Fenglou Mao, Yanbin Yin, Jinling Huang, Johann Peter Gogarten and Ying Xu†,
An automated sequence-sampling method for generation of more informative phylogenetic trees, 2011, (to be submitted). [Program]
- [6]Chan Zhou, Yanbin Yin, Phuongan Dam and Ying Xu†,
Identification of novel proteins involved in plant cell-wall synthesis based on protein-protein interactions,
Journal of Proteome Research, 9(2010): 5025-5037. [Website]
- [5] Fenglou Mao, Yanbin Yin, Fengfeng Zhou, Wen-Chi Chou, Chan Zhou, Huiling Chen,
and Ying Xu†, pDAWG: an integrated database for plant cell-wall genes,
BioEnergy Research, 2(2009): 209-216. [Website]
- [4] Chan Zhou†, Fengfeng Zhou and Ying Xu†, Comparative analyses of distributions and functions of Z-DNA in Arabidopsis and rice, Genomics, 93(2009): 383-391.
- [3] Li Xia* and Chan Zhou*†, Phase transition in sequencce unique reconstruction,
Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 20(2007): 18-29.
- [2] Camille Stephan-Otto Attolini†, Liang Gao† and Chan Zhou, Sympatric speciation in sexual populations, Bulletin of Santa Fe Institute Complex System Summer School, 2005.
- [1] Chan Zhou† and Huimin Xie, Exact distribution of the occurrence number for
K-tuples over
an alphabet of non-equal probability letters, Annals of Combinatorics, 8(2004): 499-506.
* indicates these authors contribute equally to that work.
†Corresponding authors
Conference posters and invited talks
- 3/31-4/1/2011, Challenges for large-scale phylogeny and alignment estimation Workshop, NESCent, Durham NC, USA.
"Automated sequences sampling approach over taxa generates
informative phylogeny trees", invited talk and poster.
- 11/17/2009, BioConference Live (the first online-only conference for the Life-Sciences)
"Comparative analyses of distributions and functions of Z-DNA in Arabidopsis and rice,"
invited talk.
- 9/27/2009,
Dept. of Bioinformatics & Biostatistics,
Shanghai Jiaotong University, PRC.
"Comparative analyses of distributions and functions of Z-DNA in Arabidopsis and rice,"
invited talk.
- 6/22-6/24/2009, The 3rd Science Retreat of BioEnergy Science Center,
Asheville, NC, USA
"Protein-protein interaction network in Populus trichocarpa and its application in cell wall biosynthesis", poster.
- 12/1-12/3/2008, The 2nd Science Retreat of BioEnergy Science Center, Chattanooga, TN, USA.
"Identification of novel genes involved in cell wall biosynthesis by Protein protein interaction", poster.
- 6/24-6/26/2007, The 5th International Bioinformatics Workshop, Weihai, Shandong, PRC. Attendee.
- 3/10-3/6/2006,
Graph Theory and Computational Biology Symposium, CAS-MPG Partner Institute, Shanghai, PRC.
"Phase transition in sequence unique reconstruction", invited talk.
- 6/24-6/26/2004, The Cross-Straits Workshop on Biology-Inspired Theoretical Sciences, Xiamen University, PRC. Attendee
- 8/2003, International Algebra Summer School & Symposium, Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PRC. Attendee.
Students and Visitors
I am fortunately working with:
- Tianshu You, Visiting graduate student from JLU, China (2009-2011, co-advising with Dr. Fenglou Mao).
- Dr. Chaohui Zhang, Visiting professor from JLU, China (2010-2011).
Work Experience
- 10/2009-Current Computational Systems Biology Lab, University of Georgia.
- 6/2011 Visiting Prof. Gogarten's Lab at the University of Connecticut.
- 9/2006-9/2007 Seminar manager at T-Life Research Center.
- 6/2006-9/2007 System administrator of T-Life Research Center Computer Server in Linux (Debian,
Fedora Core, CentrOS). I use Ubuntu in my desktop.
- 6/2006-9/2007 Webmaster of T-Life Research Center webpage.
- 3/2006-7/2006 Teaching Assistant,
Graduate and undergraduate course "Elementary Chaos Dynamics",
Dept. of Physics at FDU, PRC.
- 4/2006-6/2007 Commissary in charge of publicity, ZJU, PRC.
- 2000 - 2004 Commissary in charge of studies/physical labor/phyblicity/organization, ZJU, PRC.
Awards & Honors
- 2011 Travel Award for the Phylogeny Workshop at NESCent.
- 2005 Funding to attend the Complexity System Summer School.
- 2004 Excellent Graduate of Zhejiang Province; Excellent Graduate, ZJU; Excellent Graduate Thesis, ZJU.
- 2004, 2003 Shiing-shen Chern Scholarship in Mathematics for
the best four students majoring in mathematics in the Science Honors Class, ZJU, PRC.
- 2002 National Scholarship (tuition and stipend), Ministry of Education, PRC.
- 2003, 2002, 2001 Excellent Student Awards, for top 5% students who are exceptional in
academic performance and extracurriculum activities, ZJU, PRC.
Misc
I was born and grown up at Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province, PRC.
In my childhood, I enjoyed the beautiful landscape of my hometown and the colorful outdoor activities, which made me fascinated by NATURE.
I am willing to devote my life in discovering the truth of our nature as well as applying them in improving our society. Besides, I also like mathematics and am good at abstract thinking. I do hope to apply the beautiful math to solve biological problems. That's why I chose math as my major during undergraduate years.
Hobbies...
New My gallery
- I was frequently asked by my junior colleagues about how to get the useful information from literatures or was told like that, ``I forgot the paper completely later on, even though I can understand it thoroughully when reading''. Here is my suggesions about how to read literatures.
Links...
Chan's Magic words ^_^:
Where there is a smile, there is a way.
Tears are always followed by happiness.
What's important is not where we are, but in which direction we hope to go.
Last updated: Dec, 2011
