Zhe Li
Ph.D. Student, The Johns Hopkins University, 2010

Education and training
Fall 2010-present  Ph.D. student, The Johns Hopkins University
Fall 2006-2010.07 College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University
         Advisor: Wan-Xi Yang
Fall 2007-Fall 2009 The Sperm Laboratory, Zhejiang University. PI: Wan-Xi Yang
        • Independent project on the morphology changes of acrosomal screw during
          acrosome reaction in Octopus tankahkeei.
        • Collaborative project of immunocytochemical studies on acroframosome during
          spermiogenesis of Caridean shrimp.
        • Review on the spermatogenesis and spermiogenesis in mammals and
          crustaceans.
July 2008-Aug. 2008. At the Verhey Lab, the University of Michigan, USA.
         PI: Kristen J. Verhey
        • Collaborative project on the motility of certain truncations of the motor protein,
          KIF1A.
Fall 2009-present. At the Powers Lab, UC Davis, USA. PI: Ted Powers

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Jennetta W. Hammond, Dawen Cai, T. Lynne Blasius, Zhe Li, Yuyang Jiang, Gloria
        T. Jih, Edgar Meyhofer, Kristen J. Verhey. 2009. Mammalian Kinesin-3 motors
        are dimeric in vivo and move by processive motility upon release of
        autoinhibition. PLoS Biol 7(3): e1000072.
        doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000072
Zhe Li, Jun-Quan Zhu, Wan-Xi Yang. 2009. Acrosome reaction in Octopus
        tankahkeei induced by calcium ionophore A23187 and a possible role of the
        acrosomal screw. Micron, in press.
        doi:10.1016/j.micron.2009.08.001

Prizes and Honors
The Third Price of English Listening Contest of Zhejiang University 2006.11
Activity Achievement Scholarship of Zhejiang University 2006-2007
The First Prize of “Return Visit to Alma Mater” Social Practice Activity 2007
The Third Prize of Excellent Academic Scholarship 2007-2008
The Exchange Scholarship 2008

Score Sheet of Major Courses:

Activities
1. Admitted by Zhejiang University Choir in September, 2006 and volunteered to participate in the following performances as a member of the choir, and served as the chief alto.
    1.1. New Year Chorus Concert in Zhejiang University 1/4/2007
    1.2. Performance to welcome new students in Zhejiang University 3/1/2007
    1.3. Performance to celebrate the foundation of Zhejiang University for 110 years 5/21/2007
    1.4. West Lake Chorus Competition, the first prize, 11/2/2008
    1.5. Performance in The First New Year Chorus Concert of Zhejiang Province, 12/28/2008
    1.6. National Art Festival, Choir Competition, the golden prize, 2/9/2009
2. A volunteer of “Return Visit to Alma Mater” Social Practice Activity, 2/2007
3. Served in the Students Union of the College of Life Science in Zhejiang University,
    9/2006-7/2007

Journal club and group meeting records:
April 24, 2009  Data report: Study on acrosomal reaction in Octopus tankahkeei(2).
Mar. 6, 2009.  "PTP1B dephosphorylates NSF and elicits SNARE complex disassembly during human sperm exocytosis." JBC Paper in Press, published on February 10, 2009 as Manuscript M807614200.
Nov. 21,2008  "Drosophila melanogaster kl-3 and kl-5 Y-loops harbor triple-stranded nucleic acids" Journal of Cell Science 2008, 121, 1605-1612
August 29, 2008  Introduction of Summer visiting study in Dr. Kristen J. Verhey's lab, the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan.
June 13, 2008  Journal presentation: "Evidence for an intermediate type of spermatozoon: ultrastructural studies of spermiogenesis in the cuttlefish Rossia macrosoma (Cephalopoda, Decabrachia)", published on Zoomorphology (1992) 112 : 207-215.
May. 7, 2008 Research Proposal and Schedule: Study on acrosomal reaction in Octopus tankahkeei (1).
April. 18, 2008 "Evolution of Octopod Sperm II: Comparison of Acrosomal Morphogenesis in Eledone and Octopus", Molecular Reproduction and Development, 62:363–367 (2002)
Mar. 21, 2008  "Spermatozoa of two Eledone species (Cephalopoda, Octopoda)", Tissue & Cell, 1996 28 (5) 613-620.

My motto:
God helps those who help themselves.

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