Job Description

Dr. Zhou is a scientist who is conducting his research in the area of molecular and cellular neurosciences. He also teaches medical students in basic sciences in small group sessions.

Biosketch

Dr. Zhou comes to the FSU College of Medicine from the College of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he was an assistant professor from 2003 to 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Minnesota, and carried out postdoctoral research at Brandeis University.

Honors/Awards

Sept. 2007 -Aug. 2012 (1R01NS050355-01) NIH (NINDS) Functions of the N-Type Ca Channel/14-3-3 Interaction Aug. 2006 - July 2010 (0635497N) American Heart Association Regulation of Neurotransmissions in Sympathetic Neurons: Function of the 14-3-3/Ca Channel Interaction 2005 FRET Microscopy Workshop award Cell Adhesion and Matrix Research Center, UAB 1995 Lifson/Johnson Memorial Award Minnesota Medical Foundation 1994 Allan Hemingway Endowed Scholarship Minnesota Medical Foundation 1994 Doctoral Dissertation Special Grant, Graduate School, University of Minnesota

Memberships

Society for Neuroscience. American Association for Advancement of Science.

Research Focus

Function and regulation of neuronal ion channels

Publications

1. Li ,Y., Wu, Y. Li, R. and Zhou, Y. The Role of 14-3-3 Dimerization in its Modulationof the Cav2.2 channel. (2007) Channels 1:1, e1-e2. 2. Li ,Y., Wu, Y. and Zhou, Y. Modulation of Inactivation Properties of Cav2.2 Channels by 14-3-3 Proteins. (2006) Neuron 51:755–771. 3. Lai, M., Wang, F., Rohan, J.G., Maeno-Hikichi, Y., Chen, Y., Zhou, Y., Gao, G., Sather,W.A., Zhang, J.F. (2005) A tctex1-Ca(2+) channel complex for selective surface expression of Ca(2+) channels in neurons. Nat Neurosci., 8:435-442. 4. Zhou, Y., Reddy, S., Murrey, H., Fei, H. and Levitan, I.B. (2003) Monomeric 14-3-3 protein is sufficient to modulate the activity of the Drosophila slowpoke calciumdependent potassium channel. J. Biol. Chem., 278: 10073-80. 5. Zhou, Y., Fei, H. and Levitan, I.B. (2003) An interaction domain in slob necessary for its binding to the slowpoke calcium-dependent potassium channel. Neuropharmacology 45(6): 714-719. 6. Zhou, Y., Wang, J., Wen, H., Kucherovsky, O., Levitan, I.B. (2002) Modulation of Drosophila slowpoke calcium-dependent potassium channel activity by bound protein kinase A catalytic subunit. J. Neurosci., 22: 3855-3863. 7. Zhou, Y., Schopperle, W.M., Murrey, H., Jaramillo, A., Dagan, D., Griffith, L.C. and Levitan, I.B. (1999) A Dynamically Regulated 14-3-3, Slob, and Slowpoke Potassium Channel Complex in Drosophila Presynaptic Nerve Terminals. Neuron 22:809-818.