Lili Zhang
Professor
Institute of Microbiology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography
1993-1997 BS in Fermentation Engineering, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, China. 1997-2000 MS in Fermentation Engineering, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, China. 2000-2007 Ph.D. in Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, China. 2008-2014 Postdoctoral Associate in the Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, USA 2014- Associate Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Research Interest
This group focuses on the pathogenesis of vector-borne diseases, with important agricultural virus diseases as research model. The main interest is to clarify the virus-vector-host-symbiont interaction network during virus transmission within the insect vector.