Education & Experience
2006-2011Ph.D., Cell and Developmental Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, with Professor Hong Ma
2001-2005B.S, Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016-Professor, Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agricultural University
2011-2016Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biosciences, Vanderbilt University
Awards & Honors
2017 Guangdong Pearl River Talent Program (Young Talent)
Research Fields
My research interests focus on the study of phytopathogens using genomic and bioinformatic approaches, including but not limited to: 1) microbial genomics; 2) molecular mechanism and regulation of microbial pathogenesis; 3) development and application of bioinformatic tools for comparative genomics and high-throughput sequencing data analysis.
Editorial Boards
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Associate editor
Frontiers in Microbiology, Guest Associate Editor
Frontiers in Genetics, Review Editor
Selected Publications
1.Zhou J, Hu M, Hu A, Li C, Ren X, Tao M, Xue Y, Chen S, Tang C, Xu Y, Zhang L, Zhou X*. Isolation and genome analysis of Pectobacterium colocasium sp. nov. and P. aroidearum, two new pathogens of taro. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2022 Mar 28. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.852750. Epub 2022 Mar 28.
2.Liu Y, Ahator SD, Wang H, Feng Q, Xu Y, Li C, Zhou X*, Zhang L*. Genome diversity and quorum sensing variations in laboratory strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022 Feb 16. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.821895. Epub 2022 Feb 16.
3.Lv M#, Chen Y#, Hu M, Yu Q, Duan C, Ye S, Ling J, Zhou J, Zhou X*, Zhang L*, OhrR is a central transcriptional regulator of virulence in Dickeya zeae. Molecular Plant Pathology. 2022 Jan; 23(1):45-59. doi: 10.1111/mpp.13141. Epub 2021 Oct 24.
4.Hu M, Xue Y, Li C, Lv M, Zhang L, Parsek MR, Lu G, Zhou X*, Zhou J*. Genomic and Functional Dissections of Dickeya zeae Shed Light on the Role of Type III Secretion System and Cell Wall-Degrading Enzymes to Host Range and Virulence. Microbiology Spectrum. 2022 Feb 23; 10(1):e0159021. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01590-21. Epub 2022 Feb 2.
5.Hu M, Li C, Xue Y, Hu A, Chen S, Chen Y, Lu G, Zhou X*, Zhou J*. Isolation, Characterization, and Genomic Investigation of a Phytopathogenic Strain of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Phytopathology. 2021 Nov; 111(11):2088-2099. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-11-20-0501-R. Epub 2021 Nov 11.
6.Zhou X, Lutteropp S, Czech L, Stamatakis A, Looz MV, Rokas A*. Quartet-based computations of internode certainty provide robust measures of phylogenetic incongruence. Systematic Biology. 2020 Mar 1; 69(2):308-324. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz058.
7.Zheng L, Situ J, Zhu Q, Xi P, Zheng Y, Liu H, Zhou X*, Jiang Z*. Identification of volatile organic compounds for the biocontrol of postharvest litchi fruit pathogen Peronophythora litchi. Postharvest Biology and Technology. 2019 Sep; 155:37-46. doi: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2019.05.009.
8.Zhong Y#, Yan M#, Jiang J#, Zhang Z, Huang J, Zhang L, Deng Y*, Zhou X*, He F*. Mycophenolic acid as a promising fungal dimorphism inhibitor to control sugar cane disease caused by Sporisorium scitamineum. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 2019 Jan 9; 67(1):112-119. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b04893. Epub 2018 Dec 28.
9.Shen X#, Opulente DA#, Kominek J#, Zhou X#, Steenwyk JL, Buh KV, Haase MAB, Wisecaver JH, Wang M, Doering DT, Boudouris JT, Schneider RM, Langdon QK, Ohkuma M, Endoh R, Takashima M, Manabe R, Cadez N, Libkind D, Rosa CA, DeVirgilio J, Hulfachor AB, Groenewald M, Kurtzman CP, Hittinger CT*, Rokas A*. Tempo and mode of genome evolution in the budding yeast subphylum. Cell. 2018 Nov 29; 175(6):1533-1545.e20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.023. Epub 2018 Nov 8.
10.Zhou X, Shen X, Hittinger CT, Rokas A*, Evaluating fast maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic programs using empirical phylogenomic data sets. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2018 Feb 1;35(2):486-503. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msx302.