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Yang Zhou, Ph.D., Curriculum Vitae

x Statistical data analysis: – Completed Master’s level core courses Stat 500 (Statistical Methods), Stat 511 (Statistical Methods), Stat 542 and Stat 543 (Theoryof Probability and Statistics I & II) – Improved BLAST method to promote accuracy of alignment for the complicated eukaryotic genome.

Research Associate, Wuhan University, China

1998–2001

Responsibilities: x Investigator and project coordinator responsible for collaboration with Tongji Medical School and Wuhan Medical Inc.: Facilitated project studying the physiological effects of pyrroloquinoline quinine (PQQ) at non-clinic and pre-clinic stage. x Supervise experimental procedures, arranged tasks for team members x Provide project progress reviews and updates to research team members, prepare reports to principal investigator Accomplishments: x Designed and optimized procedures for the production of PQQ and nerve growth factor (NGF). x Produced polyclonal antibody for NGF, launched pre-clinical studies in mouse and rabbit to identify the physiological effects of PQQ. x Clarified physiological roles of PQQ on NGF in stimulating nerve cell development using nerve cell culture. x Initiated immunoassay for PQQ and methanol dehydrogenase. x Identified PQQ as a cofactor of methanol dehydrogenase. x Managed research team to conduct cell and animal experiments . T rained students and visiting scholars. C OMMITTEE S ERVICE x Nutritional Sciences Council at Iowa State University 2010- 2011 x AOAC International Stakeholder Panel on Strategic Food Analytical Methods 2013-2015 x AOAC International SPSFAM Heavy Metals Working Group 2013-2015

P ROFESSIONAL A SSOCIATIONS

x AOAC International x American Society for Nutrition (ASN) x Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine (SEBM) x International Carotenoid Society

S ELECTED P RESENTATION x Y. Zhou , E. Jobgen. A Highly Sensitive UPLC Method for Thiamine (Vitamin B 1 ) and Thiamine Phosphate Esters in Food. 130 th AOAC Annual meeting. Sept. 2016.

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