Kang Zhou

Research Interests

• Metabolic engineering
• Engineering microbes to utilize non-conventional substrates
• Converting renewable substrates into food ingredients
• Biosynthesis of bio-pesticides and other chemicals for urban farming
• Developing new computational and molecular biology tools for metabolic engineering

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Singapore MIT Alliance (2007 — 2012)
• Bachelor's degree Tianjin University (2003 — 2007)

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2015)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate MIT (2012 — 2015)

Selected Publications

X. Han, W. Ning, X. Ma, X. Wang*, K. Zhou*, “Improving protein solubility and activity by introducing small peptide tags designed with machine learning models”, Meta. Eng. Commun.2020, Jun 22:e00138 (the link)

Y.Liu, Z. Low, X. Ma, H. Liang, A. Sinskey,G. Stephanopoulos,K. Zhou* “Using biopolymer bodies for encapsulation of hydrophobic products in bacterium”, Meta. Eng. 2020 (the link)

Y. Cui, J. He, K. Yang*, K. Zhou*, “Production of isopropyl and butyl esters byClostridium mono-culture and co-culture”, J. Ind. Microbiol. & Biotechnol.2020 (the link)

X. Ma, G. Gözaydın, H. Yang, W. Ning, X. Han, N. Poon, H. Liang, N. Yan*, K. Zhou*, “Upcycling chitin-containing waste into organonitrogen chemicals via an integrated process”Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.2020, 117 (14), 7719-7728 (the link)

X. Ma, H. Liang, X. Cui, Y. Liu, H. Lu, W. Ning, N. Poon, B. Ho, K. Zhou*,“A standard for near-scarless plasmid construction using reusable DNA parts”,Nat. Commun. 2019, 10(1):1-2