| Huimin Zhao | |
|---|---|
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | Chinese-American |
| Fields | Chemical Engineering |
| Institutions | University of Illinois |
| Alma mater | University of Science and Technology of China California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Frances H. Arnold |
| Notable awards | ACS Young Investigator (2008) DuPont Young Investigator (2005) NSF Career Award (2004) |
Dr. Huimin Zhao is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on directed evolution, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics and high throughput technologies.
His most cited papers are
Molecular evolution by staggered extension process (StEP) in vitro recombination (1998) Nature Biotechnology, 16 (3), pp. 258–261. Cited 279 times.
Directed evolution converts subtilisin E into a functional equivalent of thermitase (1999) Protein Engineering, 12 (1), pp. 47–53. Cited 141 times.
Optimization of DNA shuffling for high fidelity recombination (1997) Nucleic Acids Research, 25 (6), pp. 1307–1308. Cited 112 times.
Random-priming in vitro recombination: An effective tool for directed evolution (1998) Nucleic Acids Research, 26 (2), pp. 681–683. Cited 92 times.