Email

zlyu@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Laboratory Director

Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Addresses

Baylor College of Medicine (Lab)

Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Room 744E
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Baylor College of Medicine (Office)

Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Room 739ED
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Georgia

10/2018 - Athens, Georgia United States

Synthetic biology

PhD from China Agricultural University

12/2012 - Beijing, China

Microbial ecology

BS from Shandong University

07/2006 - Jinan, China

Microbiology

Internship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

05/2006 - Shanghai, China

Microbial ecology

Professional Interests

• Cultivation-dependent microbial discovery
• Functional studies of the human microbiota
• Methanogenic archaea and human health

Selected Publications

• Z Lyu, WB Whitman "Transplanting the pathway engineering toolbox to methanogens." Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2019 : Pubmed PMID: 30875664
• Z Lyu, N Shao, T Akinyemi, WB Whitman "Methanogenesis." Curr Biol. 2018 : Pubmed PMID: 29990451
• Z Lyu, Y Lu "Metabolic shift at the class level sheds light on adaptation of methanogens to oxidative environments." ISME J. 2018 : Pubmed PMID: 29135970
• Z Lyu, WB Whitman "Evolution of the archaeal and mammalian information processing systems: towards an archaeal model for human disease." Cell Mol Life Sci. 2017 : Pubmed PMID: 27261368

Memberships

American Society of Microbiology

(07/2014)