Biography
Tong Zhu is currently a PhD under the supervision of Professor Sergi Garcia-Manyes and Professor Catherine Shanahan within the King's-China Scholarship Council programme.
She obtained her bachelor's degree in Biotechnology in 2017 from the national life science and technology talent training base at Shandong University. After graduating, she completed her MRes in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at Imperial College London, where she worked on engineering Turing Patterns in a bacterial chassis with a bottom-up synthetic biology approach.
Thesis title
Unravelling the nanomechanics of the LINC complex across-scales: from single molecules to individual cells
Research interests
- Biophysics
- Nanomechanics
- Single molecules
- Protein folding
PhD supervisor
Principal supervisor: Professor Sergi Garcia-Manyes
Research
Biological Physics & Soft Matter
The Biological Physics and Soft Matter group aims to use bespoke technology and analytical methods borrowed from the Physical Sciences to address important fundamental questions in Biology.
Research
Biological Physics & Soft Matter
The Biological Physics and Soft Matter group aims to use bespoke technology and analytical methods borrowed from the Physical Sciences to address important fundamental questions in Biology.