Zezhou Liu
Hi! I am Zezhou Liu, a post-doc fellow working in Prof.Reisner's Lab at the Physics department of McGill Univerisity. As a physicist, I'm passionate about exploring the behavior of polymers under different nanoscale confinements and advancing nanofluidics technology to enable single-molecule single-cell level analysis. Currently, I'm using solid-state nanopore technology to extract structural information encoded in different biopolymers. During my Ph.D. study, I studied the multiple ds-DNA interaction under a nanoscale confinement and the biological implications that coming from our in vitro experiment. You can see my publications down below.
Publications
2023
- Liu, Z., Christensen, S. M., Capaldi, X. C., Hosseini, I. I., Zeng, L., Zhang, Y., ... & Reisner, W. W. (2023). Characterizing Interaction of Multiple Nanocavity Confined Plasmids in Presence of Large DNA Model Nucleoid. Soft Matter. [Link]
2022
- Liu, Z., Capaldi, X., Zeng, L., Zhang, Y., Reyes-Lamothe, R., & Reisner, W. (2022). Confinement anisotropy drives polar organization of two DNA molecules interacting in a nanoscale cavity. Nature Communications, 13(1), 4358. [Link]
2021
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Hosseini, I. I., Liu, Z., Capaldi, X., AbdelFatah, T., Montermini, L., Rak, J., ... & Mahshid, S. (2021). Nanofluidics for Simultaneous Size and Charge Profiling of Extracellular Vesicles. Nano Letters, 21(12), 4895-4902. [Link]
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Gendron, I., Savard, K., Capaldi, X., Liu, Z., Zeng, L., Reisner, W., & Capaldi, L. (2021). Time-dependent knotting of agitated chains. Physical Review E, 103(3), 032501. [Link]
2019
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Zhang, Y., Miyahara, Y., Derriche, N., Yang, W., Yazda, K., Capaldi, X., ... & Reisner, W. (2019). Nanopore Formation via Tip‐Controlled Local Breakdown Using an Atomic Force Microscope. Small Methods, 3(7), 1900147. [Link]
2018
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Capaldi, X.*, Liu, Z.*, Zhang, Y., Zeng, L., Reyes-Lamothe, R., & Reisner, W. (2018). Probing the organization and dynamics of two DNA chains trapped in a nanofluidic cavity. Soft matter, 14(42), 8455-8465. [Link]
Thesis
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Ph.D.: Spatial organization and dynamics of multiple DNA molecules confined in a nanofluidic cavity. [Link]
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M.Sc.: Probing Organization of Multiple Chains in Nanofluidic Cavities. [Link]
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B.Sc.: Development and Characterization of the Asymmetric Gas Jets for Electron Acceleration. [Link]
Education
- Ph.D. Physics department, McGill University (2023)
- M.Sc. Physics department, McGill University (2018)
- B.Sc. Physics department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2016)
Teaching
I was a teaching assistant at McGill physics department for a few years. Here is an incomplete list of the courses that I've been a TA for:
- PHYS 101 Intro Physics Mechanics
- PHYS 142 Electromagetism & Optics
- PHYS 232 Heat and Waves
- PHYS 350 Hons Electricity & Magnetism
- PHYS 339 Measurements Lab in Gen Phys
- PHYS 434 Optics
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