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Zhu-Salzman, Keyan

Keyan Zhu-Salzman

Professor
Office:  
HPCT 320
College Station
Email:  
[email protected]
Phone:  
(979) -321-5797
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jckDGzsAAAAJ&hl=en

Education

Undergraduate Education
B.S. Fudan University, Shanghai
Graduate Education
M.S. Fudan University, Shanghai
Ph.D Purdue University, Indiana

Areas of Expertise

  • Insect-plant-environment interactions

Professional Summary

Keyan Zhu-Salzman, Ph.D. is a professor in the Texas A&M University Department of Entomology. Her research interests lie in the field of insect-plant-environment interactions. Work in her lab aims to understand plant defense signaling pathways in response to phloem-feeding aphids, as well as how herbivorous insects cope with plant anti-nutritional factors or adverse environmental challenges. She is also studying impact of electron beam irradiation and hypoxia on storage insect pests. Zhu-Salzman serves on editorial boards of Insect Science and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. Over her career, Zhu-Salzman has garnered several million dollars of research funding and has published 110 peer-reviewed papers. Her classroom teaching focuses on Insect Biotechnology in upper level of undergraduate courses. Students learn principles of molecular biology, genetic and genomics techniques in the lecture class, and master a set of basic techniques through hands-on experience in the laboratory class.

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