Zhen Xu Lecturer

Department of Toxicology and Sanitary Chemistry

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Resume

Zhen Xu, Lecturer of Tianjin Medical University. She is the lecturer of several core lessons, including Epidemic prevention and inspection, skill lessons of Sanitary Microbiology and Epidemic prevention and inspection. She held one grant, and participated in one national science grant. She published 11 papers, and she is the first author of 5 papers. She also published a book chapter as first author

Research direction

My research is focused on the dissemination, antimicrobial resistance and molecular characterization of staphylococcal isolates.

Education

B.S.      Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, 2009

MA.Sc.   Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, 2012

Ph D     Queen Mary University of London, 2016

Professional Experience

2016.12-now    Lecturer, Department of Sanitary Chemistry, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Project

Ongoing:

2017/10-2020.9: Tianjin Science Commission. Molecular epidemiology characterization of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from healthcare workers.17JCYBJC43000，Direct.

2018/1-2021/12 National Natural Science Foundation of China. Mechanism study of goiter caused by iodine overdose based on Pax8 pathway: 81703218. Participate.

Publication

1.Xu Z, Liu S, Chen L, et al.,Antimicrobial resistance and molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant coagulase negative staphylococci from public shared bicycles in Tianjin, China, Antimicrob Resist In, 2019.3: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2019.03.008. (SCI)

2.Xu Z, Misra R, Jamrozy D, et al. Whole Genome Sequence and Comparative Genomics Analysis of Multi-drug Resistant Environmental Staphylococcus epidermidis ST59. G3-Genes Genomes Genetics, 2018:g3.200314.2018.(SCI)

3.Xu Z, Haroun N. Shah, Raju Misra et al., The prevalence, antibiotic resistance andmecA characterization of coagulasenegative staphylococci recovered fromnon-healthcare settings in London, UK. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control. 2018,7:73(SCI)

4.Chen L Q, Wang H, Xu Z, et al. High-throughput and selective solid-phase extraction of urinary catecholamines by crown ether-modified resin composite fiber. Journal of Chromatography A, 2018, 1561:48-55.(SCI)

5.Hermine V. Mkrtchyan*, Xu Z, Maria Yacoub, Mary M. Ter-Stepanyan, Hayk D. Karapetyan, Angela M. Kearns, Ronald R. Cutler, Bruno Pichon and Armen Dz Hambardzumyan. Detection of diverse genotypes of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from hospital personnel and the environment in Armenia. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 2017, 6(1):19. (SCI)

6.Chen LiQin ; Zhu XingHua; Huang DanNi; Xu Zet al., Polystyrene/poly(dibenzo-18-crown-6) composite nanofibers for the selectiveadsorption of plasma catecholamines , RSC Advances, 2017, 7(22): 13263~13271. (SCI)

7.Ko S. Chong, Siti A. Shazali, Xu Z, et al., Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry to Identify Drug Resistant Staphylococcal Isolates from Nonhospital Environments in Brunei Darussalam. Journal of Infections in Developing Countries 2016, Article ID 8685602. (SCI)

8.Xu Z, Mkrtchyan HV*, Cutler RR*. Antibiotic resistance and mecA characterization of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from three hotels in London, UK. Frontiers in microbiology. 2015, 6, Article 947. (SCI)

9.Mkrtchyan H V*, Xu Z, Cutler RR. Diversity of SCCmec elements in staphylococci isolated from public washrooms. BMC Microbiol. 2015, 15:120. (SCI)

10.Xu Z, Xu Q, Zheng Z, et al. Kribbella amoyensis sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere soil of a pharmaceutical plant, Typhonium giganteum Engl. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 2012, 62(Pt 5): 1081-1085. (SCI)

11.Xu Z, Ali Olkun, Katleen Vranckx, et al., MALDI-TOF and Tandem MS for Clinical Microbiology (Chapter 21B Subtyping of Staphylococcus spp. Based upon MALDI-TOF MS Data Analysis (pages 563–578)). WILEY, 2017. ISBN: 9781118960257. (Book)

12.Ajit Shah, Vlad Serafim, Xu Z, et al., MALDI-TOF and Tandem MS for Clinical Microbiology (Chapter 15 Determination of Antimicrobial Resistance using Tandem Mass Spectrometry.(Page399-415)) WILEY, 2017. ISBN: 97811189 60257. (Book)

Membership of Academic Society

Member of American Society for Microbiology