CV

An updated CV can be obtained HERE!

Education

• Ph.D in School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2025
• B.S. in Biological Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 2020

Work experience

• Jul 2025-Now
  • Institute: Kyoto University, Japan
  • Project: Mesoscale Model on the Role of Condensates in F-actin Bundling
  • Duties includes: mesoscale modeling
  • Supervisor: Prof Shoji Takada
• Summer 2019: Research Assistant
  • Institute: Nanyang Techological University, Singapore
  • Project: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study on Bacterial Transglycosylase
  • Duties includes: drug discovery and design, small ligand docking, virtual screening, molecular dynamics simulation
  • Supervisor: Prof Mu Yuguang
• Summer 2018: Research Assistant
  • Institute: Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • Project: Study on the Structure of CALHM1
  • Duties includes: molecular clone, bacteria cell culture, insect cell culture, human cell culture, membrane protein purification
  • Supervisor: Prof Motoyuki Hattori

Skills

• Simulation related: ReaDDY2, GROMACS, LAMMPS, RoseTTA, PyMOL, VMD
• Programming Languages: Python, C++, MATLAB, Linux bash, JAVA
• Plotting: Inkscape, Blender (a little)

Publications

Systematic Investigation of the Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation Propensity of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by Molecular Simulations Permalink

Zixin Hu, Tiedong Sun, Lars Nordenskiöld, and Lanyuan Lu (2025). "Systematic Investigation of the Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation Propensity of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by Molecular Simulations." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129, 33, 8299–8317.

Refined Bonded Terms in Coarse-Grained Models for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Improve Backbone Conformations Permalink

Zixin Hu, Tiedong Sun, Wenwen Chen, Lars Nordenskiöld, and Lanyuan Lu (2024). "Refined Bonded Terms in Coarse-Grained Models for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Improve Backbone Conformations." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128(27).

The intrinsically disordered region of coronins fine-tunes oligomerization and actin polymerization Permalink

Han, X.; Hu, Z.; Surya, W.; Ma, Q.; Zhou, F.; Nordenskiöld, L.; Torres, J.; Lu, L.; Miao, Y. (2023). "The intrinsically disordered region of coronins fine-tunes oligomerization and actin polymerization." Cell Reports. 42(6).

Teaching

Teaching experience as Teaching Assistant (416 hours)

Service and leadership

• 2.5 years of president of Biology Graduate Student Club (BGSC) for School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University