Research interests

Protein Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Safety, Nanopore Design and Application

 Employment and Education

Shengli Zhang graduated from China Agricultural University in 2017 with a doctoral degree in Food Science and Engineering. From 2017 to 2021, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. From 2021 to 2022, he served as a researcher at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Since February 2023, he has been working at the College of Agriculture and Biology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, serving as a tenure-track associate professor and a doctoral supervisor.

Publications (*co-first author)

1. Shengli Zhang, Gang Huang, Roderick Versloot, Bart Marlon Herwig Bruininks, Paulo Cesar Telles de Souza, Siewert-Jan Marrink, and Giovanni Maglia. Bottom-up fabrication of a proteasome–nanopore that unravels and processes single proteins. Nature Chemistry 2021, 13.12, 1192–1199.
2. Yi-Lun Ying*, Zheng-Li Hu*, Shengli Zhang* (Co-first), Yujia Qing*, Alessio Fragasso, Giovanni Maglia, Amit Meller, Hagan Bayley, Cees Dekker, and Yi-Tao Long. Nanopore-based technologies beyond DNA sequencing. Nature Nanotechnology, 2022, 17.11, 1136-1146.
3. Shengli Zhang, Jiachen Zang, Wenming Wang, Hai Chen, Xiaorong Zhang, Fudi Wang, Hongfei Wang, and Guanghua Zhao. Conversion of Native 24-mer Ferritin Nanocage into Its Non-Native 16-mer Analogue by Insertion of Extra Amino Acid Residues. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55, 16064−16070.
4. Shengli Zhang, Jiachen Zang, Xiaorong Zhang, Hai Chen, Bunzo Mikami, and Guanghua Zhao. “Silent” Amino Acid Residues at Key Subunit Interfaces Regulate the Geometry of Protein Nanocages. ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 10382−10388.

Shengli Zhang, Jiachen Zang, Hai Chen, Meiliang Li, Chuanshan Xu, and Guanghua Zhao. The Size Flexibility of Ferritin Nanocage Opens a New Way to Prepare Nanomaterials. Small, 2017, 13, 1701045.