Zhicheng Dou, Ph.D.
Clemson University
Zhicheng Dou, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. He received his Bachelor's degree in life sciences with an emphasis on biochemistry at Fudan University located in Shanghai, China, in 2002. He was awarded a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2009.
His graduate work focuses on understanding the CO2 fixation by a primitive organelle termed carboxysome in a sulfur-oxidizing bacterium, Halothiobacillus neapolitanus. He switched his research emphasis from environmental microbiology to parasite pathogenesis during his postdoctoral training at the Carruthers' lab in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan (2009 – 2015). He studied the proteolytic mechanism of Toxoplasma gondii infection in mammalian cells. He moved to Clemson University in August 2015 and accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the department of biological sciences.
His current research studies nutrient acquisition and utilization in Toxoplasma parasites. Please refer to his lab website www.thedoulab.com for more information and connect with him via his Twitter account at @bigbean777.
His graduate work focuses on understanding the CO2 fixation by a primitive organelle termed carboxysome in a sulfur-oxidizing bacterium, Halothiobacillus neapolitanus. He switched his research emphasis from environmental microbiology to parasite pathogenesis during his postdoctoral training at the Carruthers' lab in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan (2009 – 2015). He studied the proteolytic mechanism of Toxoplasma gondii infection in mammalian cells. He moved to Clemson University in August 2015 and accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the department of biological sciences.
His current research studies nutrient acquisition and utilization in Toxoplasma parasites. Please refer to his lab website www.thedoulab.com for more information and connect with him via his Twitter account at @bigbean777.