Professional Summary
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Pathology
at Stanford University. My research focuses on microbiome, metabolomics,
and bioinformatics, with an emphasis on ion mobility-mass spectrometry and
metabolite annotation.
Education
Postdoctoral Scholar
2023-01-01
Current
Stanford University
PhD, Metabolomics
2015-09-01
2021-01-01
Chinese Academy of Sciences
BSc, Chemistry
2011-09-01
2015-06-01
Inner Mongolia University
Interests
Metabolomics
Microbiome
Bioinformatics
IBD
Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry
Research Interests
- IBD multi-omics
- Microbiome and host-microbe metabolism
- Computational metabolomics
- Ion mobility-mass spectrometry
Awards and Honors
- Basic Research Award, Stanford Pathology Research Retreat, Stanford University (2023-2025)
- Outstanding Graduate Student Award (Top 5%), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2021)
- Outstanding Poster Presentation Award, The 2nd Annual Conference for the Chinese Society of Metabolomics and International Symposium on Metabolomics, Shanghai (2021)
- National Scholarship of China (Top 0.2%), Ministry of Education of P.R. China (2019)
- Outstanding Young Scientist Presentation Award, Chinese Society of Metabolomics Annual Conference (2019)
- Outstanding Young Scientist Presentation Award, The 3rd China Mass Spectrometry Conference, Xiamen (2017)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President’s Scholarship (Top 1%), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018)
Funding and Fellowships
- Postdoctoral and Early Career Support Award, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease (01/2025-12/2026)
- Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Medicine, Stanford University (01/2024-12/2024)
Selected Publications
Microbiome and metabolomics
- Z. Zhou et al. "IsoPairFinder: A tool for biochemical pathway discovery using stable isotope tracing metabolomics." bioRxiv (2025). https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.18.670916
- Y. Liu et al. "Gut bacteria degrade purines via the 2,8-dioxopurine pathway." Nature Microbiology (2025), 10:2291–2305
- Y. Liu et al. "A widely distributed gene cluster compensates for uricase loss in hominids." Cell (2023) 186:16.
Computational metabolomics
- Z. Zhou et al. "Metabolite Annotation from Knowns to Unknowns through Knowledge-guided Multi-layer Metabolic Networking." Nature Communications (2022) 13:6656.
- Y. Cai, Z. Zhou, and Z.-J. Zhu. "Advanced Analytical and Informatic Strategies for Metabolite Annotation in Untargeted Metabolomics." Trends in Analytical Chemistry (2023) 158:116903.
Ion mobility-mass spectrometry
- Z. Zhou et al. "Ion Mobility Collision Cross-Section Atlas for Known and Unknown Metabolite Annotation in Untargeted Metabolomics." Nature Communications (2020) 11:4334.
- Z. Zhou et al. "LipidCCS: Prediction of Collision Cross-Section Values for Lipids with High Precision to Support Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry based Lipidomics." Analytical Chemistry (2017) 89:9559-9566.
- Z. Zhou et al. "Large-Scale Prediction of Collision Cross-Section Values for Metabolites in Ion Mobility - Mass Spectrometry." Analytical Chemistry (2016) 88:11084-11091.
Contact
Department of Pathology, Stanford University, 269 Campus Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94305