2012年毕业于美国新墨西哥大学(University of New Mexico),获化学博士学位。2012年至2019年在美国伊利诺伊大学香槟分校基因组生物学研究所(Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)从事博士后研究。2019年3月作为青年拔尖人才引进到金沙9001cc以诚为本首页生态科学研究所,聘为研究员。共发表SCI收录研究论文18篇,其中以第一作者或共同第一作者在Nature Chemical Biology,Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.,J. Am. Chem. Soc.,eLife,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,ACS Catalysis等国际权威期刊上发表研究论文7篇。
1. Carter, M. S.#; Zhang, X.#; Huang, H.#; Bouvier, J. T.; San Francisco, B.; Vetting, M. W.; Al-Obaidi, N.; Bonanno, J. B.; Ghosh, A.; Zallot, R.; Andersen, H. M.; Almo, S. C.; Gerlt, J. A.* Functional Assignment of Multiple Catabolic Pathways for D-apiose. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2018, 14, 696-705.
2. Zhang, X.; Carter, M. S.; Vetting, M. W.; San Francisco, B.; Zhao, S.; Al-Obaidi, N.; Solbiati, J. O.; Thiaville, J. J.; de Crécy-Lagard, V.; Jacobson, M. P.; Almo, S. C.; Gerlt, J. A.* Assignment of Function to a Domain of Unknown Function: DUF1537 is a New Kinase Family in Catabolic Pathways for Acid Sugars. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2016, 113,E4161-E4169.
3. Huang, H.#; Zhang, X.#; Yu, C.; Li, X.; Zhang, Y.; Wang, W.* Highly Regio- and Stereoselective Synthesis of Z and E Enol Esters by an Amine-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition–Rearrangement Reaction of Ynals with Carboxylic Acids. ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 8030–8035.
4. Zhang, X.; Kumar, R.; Vetting, M. W.; Zhao, S.; Jacobson, M. P.; Almo, S. C.; Gerlt, J. A.* A Unique cis-3-Hydroxy-L-Proline Dehydratase in the Enolase Superfamily. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 1388-1391.
5. Zhao, S.#; Sakai, A.#; Zhang, X.#; Vetting, M. W.#; Kumar, R.#; Hillerich, B.; San Francisco, B.; Solbiati, J. O.; Steves, A.; Brown, S.; Akiva, E.; Barber, A.; Seidel, R. D.; Babbitt, P. C.; Almo, S. C.*; Gerlt, J. A.*; Jacobson, M. P.* Prediction and Characterization of Enzymatic Activities Guided by Sequence Similarity and Genome Neighborhood Networks. eLife 2014, 10.7554/eLife.03275.
6. Zhang, X.; Song, X.; Li, H.; Zhang, S.; Chen, X.; Yu, X.; Wang, W.* An Organocatalytic Cascade Approach toward Polysubstituted Quinolines and Chiral 1,4-Dihydroquinolines-Unanticipated Effect of N-Protecting Groups. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 7282-7286.
7. Zhang, X.; Zhang, S.; Wang, W.* Iminium–Allenamine Cascade Catalysis: One-Pot Access to Chiral 4H-Chromenes by a Highly Enantioselective Michael-Michael Sequence. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1481-1484.