Zhen Huang BS, MS, PhD

Zhen Huang, Professor of Georgia State University, visited Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and gave the Shizhang Bei Lecture entitled “Selenium Nucleic Acids for Chemical and Structural Biology” in the library. Professor Yanli Wang hosted this lecture, and many researchers and graduate students participated this interesting report.

Professor Zhen Huang got his PhD degree from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and then pursued a postdoctoral training in Professor Jack Szostak’ lab at Harvard Medical School. Now he is the professor in the Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University. Professor Zhen Huang pioneered and developed atom-specific substitution of nucleic acid oxygen with selenium, which can be used as an atomic probe for structure and function studies of nucleic acids.