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Email

zhaow@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
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Houston, Texas, United States

Co-Director

CryoEM Core (Advanced Technology Core)
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member

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center

Associate Professor

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Houston, Texas, United States

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Rice University
Houston, Texas, United States

Adjunct Assistant professor

Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Division of Basic Science,
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States

Addresses

One Baylor Plaza (Office)

N410.07
HOUSTON, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-3086
zhaow@bcm.edu

Education

PhD from Peking University

Beijing, China

MS from Wuhan Univerisity

Wuhan, Hubei, China

BS from Wuhan University

Wuhan, Hubei, China

Professional Interests

• Cryo-electron Microscopy and Tomography
• Antibiotic Resistance and Drug Efflux Pumps
• Nuclear Receptor
• Membrane Proteins/Ion Channel

Websites

Selected Publications

• Zhang K, Wang Z, Fan GZ, Wang J, Gao S, Li Y, Sun L, Yin CC, Liu WJ. " " Cell Microbiol.. 2015 Nov ;
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• Du D, Voss J, Wang Z, Chiu W, Luisi BF.. " " Biol Chem.. 2015 Sep ;
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• Hu H*, Wang Z*, Wei R*, Fan G, Wang Q, Zhang K, Yin CC.. " " Sci Rep.. 2015 Feb ;
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• Du D, Wang Z, James NR, Voss JE, Klimont E, Ohene-Agyei T, Venter H, Chiu W, Luisi BF.. " " Nature. 2014 May ;
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• Yi P*, Wang Z*, Feng Q, Pintilie GD, Foulds CE, Lanz RB, Ludtke SJ, Schmid MF, Chiu W, O'Malley BW. " " Mol Cell.. 2015 Mar ;
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• Shi X, Wang Z, Yan L, Ezemaduka AN, Fan G, Wang R, Fu X, Yin C, Chang Z.. " " FEBS Lett.. 2011 Nov ;
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• Fan G, Baker ML, Wang Z, Baker MR, Sinyagovskiy PA, Chiu W, Ludtke SJ, Serysheva II.. " " Nature. 2015 Nov ;
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• Zhang K, Wang Z, Liu X, Yin C, Basit Z, Xia B, Liu W.. " " PLoS One.. 2012 Jul ;
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• Ni P, Wang Z, Ma X, Das NC, Sokol P, Chiu W, Dragnea B, Hagan M, Kao CC.. " " J Mol Biol.. 2012 Jun ;
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• Wang Z, Hryc CF, Bammes B, Afonine PV, Jakana J, Chen DH, Liu X, Baker ML, Kao C, Ludtke SJ, Schmid MF, Adams PD, Chiu W.. " " Nat Commun.. 2014 Sep ;
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• Hryc CF, Chen DH, Afonine PV, Jakana J, Wang Z, Haase-Pettingell C, Jiang W, Adams PD, King JA, Schmid MF, Chiu W. " " Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Mar ;
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• Zhang K*, Ezemaduka AN*, Wang Z*, Hu H, Shi X, Liu C, Lu X, Fu X, Chang Z, Yin CC.. " " Sci Rep.. 2015 Mar ;
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• Dilip Kumar, Xinzhe Yu, Sue E Crawford, Rodolfo Moreno, Joanita Jakana, Banumathi Sankaran, Ramakrishnan Anish, Soni Kaundal, Liya Hu, Mary K Estes, Zhao Wang, BV Venkataram Prasad. " " Science Advances. 2020 Apr 1;
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• Xinzhe Yu, Ping Yi, Ross A Hamilton, Hong Shen, Muyuan Chen, Charles E Foulds, Michael A Mancini, Steven J Ludtke, Zhao Wang, Bert W O’Malley. " " Molecular Cell. 2020 Jul 14;
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• Hanzhi Zhang, Yaping Pan, Liya Hu, M Ashley Hudson, Katrina S Hofstetter, Zhichun Xu, Mingqiang Rong, Zhao Wang, BV Venkataram Prasad, Steve W Lockless, Wah Chiu, Ming Zhou. " " Nature communications. 2020 Jan 28;
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• Muyuan Chen, James M Bell, Xiaodong Shi, Stella Y Sun, Zhao Wang, Steven J Ludtke. " " Nature methods. 2019 Oct 14;
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• Ran Meng, Mengqiu Jiang, Zhicheng Cui, Jeng-Yih Chang, Kailu Yang, Joanita Jakana, Xinzhe Yu, Zhao Wang, Bo Hu, Junjie Zhang. " " Nature communications. 2019 Jul 16;
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• Xiaodong Shi, Muyuan Chen, Zhili Yu, James M Bell, Hans Wang, Isaac Forrester, Heather Villarreal, Joanita Jakana, Dijun Du, Ben F Luisi, Steven J Ludtke, Zhao Wang. " " Nature communications. 2019 Jun 14;
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• Qingqing Xie, Zhao Wang, Fengyun Ni, Xiaorui Chen, Jianpeng Ma, Nita Patel, Hanxin Lu, Ye Liu, Jing-Hui Tian, David Flyer, Michael J Massare, Larry Ellingsworth, Gregory Glenn, Gale Smith, Qinghua Wang. " " PloS one. 2019 Feb 7;
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• Timothy L Dosey, Zhao Wang, Guizhen Fan, Zhixian Zhang, Irina I Serysheva, Wah Chiu, Theodore G Wensel. " " Nature structural & molecular biology. 2019 Jan ;
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• Guizhen Fan, Mariah R Baker, Zhao Wang, Alexander B Seryshev, Steven J Ludtke, Matthew L Baker, Irina I Serysheva. " " Cell research. 2018 Dec ;
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• Ping Yi, Zhao Wang, Qin Feng, Chao-Kai Chou, Grigore D Pintilie, Hong Shen, Charles E Foulds, Guizhen Fan, Irina Serysheva, Steven J Ludtke, Michael F Schmid, Mien-Chie Hung, Wah Chiu, Bert W O’Malley. " " Molecular cell. 2017 Sep 17;
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• Zhao Wang, Guizhen Fan, Corey F Hryc, James N Blaza, Irina I Serysheva, Michael F Schmid, Wah Chiu, Ben F Luisi, Dijun Du. " " Elife. 2017 Mar 19;
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• " Essays in Biochemistry. 2021 Jun ;
• " Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2021 Jan ;
• Zhili Yu, Yaoming Wu, Muyuan Chen, Tong Huo, Wei Zheng, Steven J. Ludtke, Xiaodong Shi, Zhao Wang. " " 2023 Jul ;
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• Xinzhe Yu, Ping Yi, Anil K Panigrahi, Lance Edward V Lumahan, John P Lydon, David M Lonard, Steven J Ludtke, Zhao Wang, Bert W O’Malley. " " 2022 Nov ;
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• Yuewei Wang, Tong Huo, Yu-Jung Tseng, Lan Dang, Zhili Yu, Wenjuan Yu, Zachary Foulks, Rebecca L Murdaugh, Steven J Ludtke, Daisuke Nakada, Zhao Wang. " " 2022 Jan ;
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• Xinzhe Yu, Ping Yi, Anil K Panigrahi, Lance Edward V Lumahan, John P Lydon, David M Lonard, Steven J Ludtke, Zhao Wang, Bert W O’Malley. " " 2022 ;
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• Tong Huo, Wei Zheng, Zhili Yu, Yaoming Wu, Qiuyu Ren, Junli Cao, Zhao Wang, Xiaodong Shi. " " 2024 ;
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• Hongjiang Wu, Liang Sun, Tong Huo, Theodore G Wensel, Frank T Horrigan, Zhao Wang. " " 2025 ;
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• Xuqian Tan, Ethan Boniuk, Anisha Abraham, Xueting Zhou, Zhili Yu, Steven J Ludtke, Zhao Wang. " " 2025 ;
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• Felipe-Andrés Piedra, Miguel A Salazar, Sara Abouelniaj, Raayed Rahman, Justin C Clark, Yimo Han, Zhao Wang, Anthony Maresso. " " 2025 ;
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Memberships

Biophysical Society

(01/2013)

American Endocrine Society

(01/2017)

Funding

Sex Hormone Receptor Components and the Cell Genome
#5 R01 HD07857

Grant funding from NIH-NICHD

O'Malley (PI), Co-Investigator

Determining Chemical Interactions Mediating Biological Complex Formation by Cryo-EM
#Q-1967-20180324

Grant funding from Welch Foundation

PI

Molecular mechanism of Androgen Receptor mediated transcription
#R01GM143380

Grant funding from NIH-NIGMS

Wang(PI)

Investigation of the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Thrombocyte Integrin Signaling
#R01HL162842

Grant funding from NILBI

Molecular Assembly of Bacterial Tripartite Multidrug Efflux Pumps
#1R01AI179879

(05/01/2024 - 04/30/2029)

Grant funding from NIAID