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Professor Zhang, Congyan

Address(Office) MMW 507C
(Lab) MMW 618
Emailcongyanzhang@cuhk.edu.hk
Web

https://www.labxing.com/zhang-labatcuhk

Education

Ph.D., 2018 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.S., 2012 Jilin University

Positions

Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Interests

  •  Cell-cell communication
  •  Open-ended membrane tubular connections between cells
  •  Communication in tissue and tumor microenvironment

Representative Publications

  1. Congyan Zhang, Randy Schekman. Syncytin-mediated open-ended membrane tubular connections facilitate the intercellular transfer of cargos including Cas9 protein. eLife. 2023, 12: e84391. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84391. It is selected for “eLife digest”, “eLife features” and cover paper. https://elifesciences.org/digests/84391/taking-the-tube. One video from this paper was selected as one of the favorite biological images and videos in eLife in 2023 (#12DaysOfeLife).
  2. Xiang Chi, Ololade Omolara Ogunsade, Ziyun Zhou1, Zemin Li, Xuehan Li, Mengwei Zhang, Fuhang Song, Jun Wang, Mirza Ahmed Hammad, Xuelin Zhang, Shuyan Zhang, Xia Wan, Lixin Zhang, Congyan Zhang* and Pingsheng Liu*. Lipid Droplet Is an Ancient and Inheritable Organelle in Bacteria. bioRxiv. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.18.103093 (*co-corresponding author)
  3. Yangli Liu#, Shimeng Xu#, Congyan Zhang#, Xiaotong Zhu, Mirza Ahmed Hammad, Xuelin Zhang, Mark Christian, Hong Zhang, Pingsheng Liu. Identification of a conserved family of lipid droplet proteins from bacteria, C. elegans to mammals. BBA-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 2018, 1863 (8): 881-894. (#co-first author) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbalip.2018.04.018.
  4. Congyan Zhang and Pingsheng Liu. The New Face of the Lipid Droplet: Lipid Droplet Proteins. Proteomics. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201700223.
  5. Congyan Zhang and Pingsheng Liu. The lipid droplet: A conserved cellular organelle. Protein Cell. 2017, 8: 796. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13238-017-0467-6.
  6. Congyan Zhang, Li Yang, Yunfeng Ding, Yang Wang, Lan Lan, Qin Ma, Xiang Chi, Peng Wei, Yongfang Zhao, Alexander Steinbüchel, Hong Zhang, Pingsheng Liu. Bacterial lipid droplets bind to DNA via an intermediary protein that enhances survival under stress. Nat. Commun. 2017, 8: 15979. doi:10.1038/ncomms15979.

Patents

  1. Pingsheng Liu and Congyan Zhang. Application of MLDS in promoting lipid droplets or adiposomes binding to DNA. No. ZL201710024418.
  2. Pingsheng Liu and Congyan Zhang. Discovery and application of lipid droplets involving in transcriptional regulation via MLDSR. No. ZL201710024594.3

Awards

2022 Third Place Poster Prize at the 5th World Laureate Forum
2022 Travel Award in Cell-Cell Fusion Conference GRC
2022 “Best Poster Award” in the UC Berkeley MCB Department Retreat
2018 Chinese Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program Award
2017 National Scholarship for Graduate Student (Chinese Ministry of Education)
2017 First Prize of the Director Paper Award in Institute of Biophysics
2011 National Scholarship for Undergraduate Student (Chinese Ministry of Education)
2009 National Scholarship for Undergraduate Student (Chinese Ministry of Education)