Limei Zhang
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Biochemistry University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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BEAD N138
Lincoln NE 68588-0664 - Phone
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402-472-2967 On-campus 2-2967
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limei.zhang@unl.edu
Research interests
Owing to their versatile reactivity, transition metals are widely used as a powerful weapon by the host and bacterial pathogens during infection. Knowledge on the structure and function of metalloproteins involved in the metal homeostasis and stress response are highly desirable because of their potentials as promising targets for new antimicrobial therapies. Research in the Zhang laboratory focuses on metalloproteins in sensing and responding to redox stress. Students in the Zhang group use interdisciplinary approaches to decipher action mechanism of these redox sensors.
Education
- Ph D, University of Saskatchewan, 2009
- MS, University of Victoria, 2000
- BS, Jilin University, 1997
Research focus: Redox stress response and antibiotic resistance; structural biology.