Zhichao Zhou
Professor At Institute For Advanced Study, Shenzhen University
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, United States
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Top SchoolZhichao Zhou is a viromics-focused professor and bioinformatics tool developer with 8+ years of research experience bridging biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, and viral omics. He has authored 50+ peer-reviewed papers in top journals (including Nature Communications and The ISME Journal), with over 2,900 citations and an H-index of 25, and has invented widely used tools such as VIBRANT and METABOLIC and the recent ViWrap. His lab combines metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, isotope labeling, geochemical analysis, and thermodynamic modeling to unravel virus-driven carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles across deep-sea vents, wetlands, and lakes. A former postdoc at University of Wisconsin–Madison and CUHK with a PhD from HKU, he pairs rigorous field and lab ecology with scalable bioinformatics, making his work as relevant to ecosystem models as to open-source viromics workflows. An organizer and community builder during his postdoc years, he maintains active code and resource hubs that accelerate microbial and viral ecology research.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), National Biology Base Class/General Biology, GPA: 3.56 (Peking University calculating method), Bachelor of Science (B.S.), National Biology Base Class/General Biology, GPA: 3.56 (Peking University calculating method) at Wuhan UniversityCertificate of Summer Course - Microbial Diversity - Directors: Jared Leadbetter & Dianne Newman, Certificate of Summer Course - Microbial Diversity - Directors: Jared Leadbetter & Dianne Newman at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods HoleThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Chinese, English
Github Skills (37)
relationship10
predict10
throughput10
bioinformatics10
classify9
scalable9
rna-seq6
computational-biology6
python6
blast6
binning6
meta6
genomics5
hgt5
autoencoder5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AnantharamanLab/METABOLIC
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
A scalable high-throughput metabolic and biogeochemical functional trait profiler
Contributions:2 releases, 193 commits, 143 pushes in 3 years 6 months
scalabletraitbiogeochemicalbioinformaticshigh-throughput
AnantharamanLab/ViWrap
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
A wrapper to identify, bin, classify, and predict host-viral relationship for viruses
Contributions:2 releases, 11 reviews, 99 commits in 6 months
pythonhostbinviralpredict
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