Xuejun Zhu

Educational Background

Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2019
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute - 2019
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley - 2017
B.S., Biosciences (DII), Nanjing University, China - 2012

Dean of Engineering Excellence Award (Assistant Professor Level), TEES, 2024
Engineering Genesis Award, TEES, 2023
Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for Early Stage Investigators, National Institutes of Health – 2022
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, The Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering – 2022

Gordils-Valentin, L., Ouyang, H., Qian, L., Hong, J., Zhu, X.*, Conjugative type IV secretion systems enable bacterial antagonism that operates independently of plasmid transfer. Commun. Biol., 2024, 7, 499.
Ouyang, H., Xu, Z., Hong, J., Malroy, J., Qian, L., Ji, S., Zhu, X.*, “Mining the Metabolic Capacity of Clostridium sporogenes Aided by Machine Learning”, Angew. Chem., 2024, e202319925.
Qian, L., Mohanty, P., Jayaraman, A., Mittal, J., Zhu, X.*, “Specific residues and conformational plasticity define the substrate specificity of short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases”, J. Biol. Chem. 2024., 300(1), 105596.
Qian, L., Ouyang, H., Gordils-Valentin, L., Hong, J., Jayaraman, A.*, Zhu, X.* “Identification of Gut Bacterial Enzymes for Keto-Reductive Metabolism of Xenobiotics” ACS Chem. Biol., 2022, 17(7), 1665–1671.
Ouyang, H., Hong, J., Malroy, J., Zhu, X.* "An E. coli-Based Biosynthetic Platform Expands the Structural Diversity of Natural Benzoxazoles" ACS Synth. Biol., 2021, 10(9), 2151–2158.