DR BING ZHU

CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, CHINA

Bing Zhu, Ph.D., is investigator and deputy director of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zhu received his Ph.D. from the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Following his postdoctoral studies at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland, and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he joined the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, as a faculty. Then he joined the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an investigator in 2014. He greatly contributed to revealing mechanisms governing mitotic inheritance of chromatin modifications. More recently, he advanced our knowledge in mechanisms preparing the cells for future gene induction, such as reining and transcriptional memory consolidation. Dr. Zhu serves as a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine.