Keying Zhu
About me
I completed my PhD training under the supervision of Prof. Robert Harris at the Karolinska Institutet in 2023. Currently, I am a Swedish Research Council International Postdoctoral Fellow (Vetenskapsrådet) working on an independent research project at the University of California San Francisco, affiliated with Prof. Maja Jagodic at the Karolinska Institutet.
Research
My postdoctoral research investigates the complex interplay between glial cells in the CNS under both physiological and pathological conditions, with a particular focus on the role of primary cilia in mediating cellular function and signal transduction in white matter injury and repair.
Teaching
Supervised four master students for their master's projects:
Timas Shin-Yu Kung (8 months, Karolinska Institutet)
Projects: 1. Microglial reprogramming for neuroinflammatory disorders- 2. Topoisomerase 1
inhibition mitigates microglial activation and neuroinflammation.
Cindy Bay (2 months, Heidelberg University)
Project: Topoisomerase 1 inhibition attenuates neuroinflammation.
Zoë Keasberry (6 months, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Project: Improvement of microglial replacement therapy in severe neurological diseases:
understanding the depletion and repopulation pattern of microglia following CSF1R inhibition.
Yiming Xia (10 months, Karolinska Institutet)
Projection: Transcritptional coregulator in control of microglia function.
Articles
- Article: NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY. 2024;19(9):1366-1374
- Article: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE (JEM). 2024;221(2):e20230675
- Article: INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY. 2024;127:111408
- Article: JCI INSIGHT. 2023;8(17):e167656
- Article: ACTA PHARMACOLOGICA SINICA. 2023;44(4):766-779
- Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROINFLAMMATION. 2023;20(1):83
- Article: EMBO REPORTS. 2022;23(7):e54499
- Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROINFLAMMATION. 2022;19(1):20
- Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH. 2021;99(3):793-805
- Article: CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS. 2021;254:117291
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. 2020;21(22):E8603-8603
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. 2020;21(18):E6824-6824
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2020;11(1):4071
- Article: GLIA. 2020;68(7):1466-1478
- Article: EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. 2020;2020:3205176
- Article: BRAIN RESEARCH. 2019;1710:33-42
- Article: SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND TARGETED THERAPY. 2019;4:27
- Article: NATURE IMMUNOLOGY. 2018;19(5):1-7
- Journal article: BIOLOGICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN. 2017;40(8):1306-1313
- Journal article: FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE. 2016;10:613
All other publications
- Preprint: BIORXIV. 2023
- Thesis / dissertation: 2023
- Review: GLIA. 2019;67(2):217-231
Grants
- NEURO Sweden1 January 2024 - 31 December 2024
- Oligodendroglial Primary Cilia in White Matter Injury Repair: Function, Signaling mechanism, and Proteome RepertoireSwedish Research Council1 January 2024 - 31 December 2027
- Swedish Research Council1 December 2021 - 30 November 2026
- StratNeuro1 June 2021 - 31 May 2023
- NEURO Sweden1 January 2021 - 1 January 2022
Employments
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2025
Degrees and Education
- Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2023