博士，副研究員 中國農業大學客座教授
主要獲獎及專利
1．“基因工程精品課程的創建”2004年獲校教育教學成果一等獎；
2．“受體期望教學法在研究生分子生物學教學中的套用”2004年獲校教育教學成果一等獎；
3．“理工優秀生部學生綜合素質培養”2004年獲校教育教學成果二等獎；
4．獲“立達獎”和“寶鋼獎”
主要
論文及專著
R. Zhu, D. Wang, Y. Zhang and J. Li. 2006. Hydrogen production by draTGB hupL double mutant of Rhodospirillum rubrum under different light conditions. Chinese Science Bulletin 51: 2611-2618.
Y. Zhang, E. L. Pohlmann, M. C. Conrad, and G. P. Roberts. 2006. The poor growth of Rhodospirillum rubrum mutants lacking PII proteins is due to an excess of glutamine synthetase activity. Mol. Microbiol. 61:497-510
Y. Zhang, D. M. Wolfe, E. L. Pohlmann, M. C. Conrad, and G. P. Roberts. 2006. Effect of AmtB homologs on the posttranslational regulation of nitrogenase activity in response to ammonium and energy signals in Rhodospirillum rubrum. Microbiology. 152:2075-2089
Zhu, Y., M. C. Conrad, Y. Zhang, and G. P. Roberts. 2006. Identification of Rhodospirillum rubrum GlnB variants that are altered in their ability to interact with different targets in response to nitrogen-status signals. J. Bacteriol. 188:1866-1874.
Zhang, Y., E. L. Pohlmann, and G. P. Roberts. 2005. GlnD is essential for NifA activation, NtrB/NtrC-regulated gene expression, and posttranslational regulation of nitrogenase activity in the photosynthetic, nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum. J. Bacteriol. 187:1254-1265.
Reslewic, S., S. Zhou, M. Place, Y. Zhang, A. Briska, S. Goldstein, C. Churas, R. Runnheim, D. Forrest, A. Lim, A. Lapidus, C. S. Han, G. P. Roberts, and D. C. Schwartz. 2005. Whole-Genome Shotgun Optical Mapping of Rhodospirillum rubrum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71:5511-5522.
Zhang, Y., E. L. Pohlmann, and G. P. Roberts. 2004. Identification of critical residues in GlnB for its activation of NifA activity in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101:2782-2787.
Kim, K., Y. Zhang, and G. P. Roberts. 2004. Characterization of altered regulation variants of dinitrogenase reductase-activating glycohydrolase from Rhodospirillum rubrum. FEBS Letter 559:84-88.
Zhang, Y., E. L. Pohlmann, P. W. Ludden and G. P. Roberts. 2003. Regulation of nitrogen fixation by multiple PII homologs in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum. Symbiosis. 35:85-100.
Zhang, Y., E. L. Pohlmann, P. W. Ludden and G. P. Roberts. 2001. Functional characterization of three GlnB homologs in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum: roles in sensing ammonium and energy status. J. Bacteriol. 183:6159-6168.
Zhang, Y., E. L. Pohlmann, C. M. Halbleib, P. W. Ludden and G. P. Roberts. 2001. Effect of PII and its homolog GlnK on reversible ADP-ribosylation of dinitrogenase reductase by heterologous expression of the Rhodospirillum rubrum dinitrogenase reductase ADP-ribosyl transferase-dinitrogenase reductase-activating glycohydrolase regulatory system in Klebsiella pneumoniae. J. Bacteriol. 183:1610-1620.
Zhang, Y., K. Kim, P. W. Ludden and G. P. Roberts. 2001. Isolation and characterization of draT mutants that have altered the regulatory properties of dinitrogenase reductase ADP-ribosyl transferase in Rhodospirillum rubrum. Microbiology 147:193-202.
Antharavally B. S., R. R. Poyner, Y. Zhang, G. P. Roberts, and P. W. Ludden. 2001. Effects of specific amino acid substitutions on activities of dinitrogenase reductase-activating glycohydrolase from Rhodospirillum rubrum. J. Bacteriol. 183:5743-5746.
Halbleib, C. M., Y. Zhang, and P. W. Ludden. 2000. Regulation of dinitrogenase reductase ADP-ribosyltransferase and dinitrogenase reductase-activating glycohydrolase by a redox-dependent conformational change of nitrogenase Fe protein. J. Biol. Chem. 275:3493-3500.
Halbleib, C. M., Y. Zhang, G. P. Roberts, and P. W. Ludden. 2000. Effects of perturbations of the nitrogenase electron transfer chain on reversible ADP-ribosylation of nitrogenase Fe protein in Klebsiella pneumoniae strains bearing the Rhodospirillum rubrum dra operon. J. Bacteriol. 182:3681-3687.
