Lectures Chem. Bio. & Biophysics Xiaowei Zhuang Biography
BiographyXiaowei Zhuang is Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Professor of
Physics at Harvard University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
She received her B.S. in physics from University of Science and Technology of
China and her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. As a
post-doctoral fellow with Steven Chu at Stanford University, Zhuang began to use
her background in physics to develop methods such as FRET to study biological
processes at the single molecule level. Her lab continues to develop super-
resolution microscopy techniques and applies these to answering questions in cell
and neurobiology. |