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Dr Jun Zou
I obtained my BSc degree in Biology in Peking University in 1987 and PhD degree
in University of Aberdeen in 1998. I have been working in the field of fish
immunology at Aberdeen since 1996, and am currently the Research Manager for SFIRC.
My main research
interests include:
- Molecular cloning and expression analysis of fish cytokines and cytokine
receptors.
- Cytokine signal transduction in fish.
- Cell mediated immune response in fish.
- Production of recombinant fish proteins and functional chraracterisation.
Selected recent publications:
- Zou, J., Tafalla, C., Truckle, J. & Secombes, C.J. (2007). Identification of a second group of type I IFNs in fish sheds light on IFN evolution in vertebrates. J. Immunol. 179: 3859-3871.
- Nascimento, D.S., do Vale, A., Tomás, A.M., Zou, J., Secombes, C.J. & dos Santos, N.M.S. (2007). Cloning, promoter analysis and expression in response to bacterial exposure of sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) interleukin-12 p40 and p35 subunits. Molecular Immunol. 44: 2277-2291.
- Zou, J., Mercier, C., Koussounadis, A. & Secombes, C. (2007). Discovery of multiple beta-defensin like homologues in teleost fish. Molecular Immunol. 44: 638-647.
- Bird, S., Zou, J & Secombes, C. (2006). Advances in fish cytokine biology give clues to the evolution of a complex network. Current Pharmaceutical Design 12: 3051-3069.
- Chang, C.-I., Pleguezuelos, O., Zhang, Y.-A., Zou, J. & Secombes, C.J. (2005). Identification of a novel cathelicidin gene in the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Infection and Immunity 73: 5053-5064.
- Zou, J., Carrington, A., Collet, B., Dijkstra, J.M., Bols, N. & Secombes, C.J. (2005). Identification and bioactivities of interferon gamma in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss: the first Th1 type cytokine characterised functionally in fish. J. Immunol. 175: 2484-2494.
- Zou, J., Bird, S., Truckle, J., Bols, N., Horne, M. & Secombes, C.J. (2004). Identification and expression analysis of an IL-18 homologue and its alternatively spliced form in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Eur. J. Biochem. 271: 1913-1923.
- Zou, J., Clarke, M. & Secombes, C.J. (2003). Characterisation, expression and promoter analysis of an interleukin 10 homologue in the puffer fish, Fugu rubripes. Immunogenetics 55: 325-335
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