Welcome to Zhou's lab for designing future food and human health!

We exploit the fundamental principles of natural food proteins and their nanostructured biomaterials, to design future foods with higher sustainability, greater functionality and better nutritional value!

Research Interest

Tailoring functional food for human nutrition
Food protein biomaterials

Featured Publications

  1. L. Frey‡, J. Zhou‡,*. G. Cereghetti, M. Emanuel, D. Rhyner, A. Pokharna, L. Wenchel, H. Kadavath, M. Weber, Y. Cao, B. Meier, M. Peter, J. Greenwald, R. Riek*, R. Mezzenga*. A structural rationale for reversible vs irreversible amyloid fibril formation from a single protein. Nature Communications. 15(1), 1-11, 2024.

  2. J. Zhou, A. Salvatore, M. Tatli, J. Tian, I. Illie, E. Starostin, A. Calflisch, T. Knowles, G. Dietler, F. Ruggeri, H. Stahlberg, S. Sekatskii, R. Mezzenga*. The role of inter-protofilament interaction in the formation mechanism of hierarchically twisted protein nanofibrils. Advanced Sciences. 11(32), 2402740, 2024.

  3. J. Zhou‡,*, C. Liao‡,*, M. Villalba, C. Xiong, Cong. Zhao, L. Venturelli, D. Liu, A. Kohler, S. Sekatskii, G. Dietler, Y. Wang*, S. Kasas*. An optical fiber-based nanomotion sensor for rapid antibiotic and antifungal susceptibility test. Nano Letters 24 (10), 2980-2988, 2024.  (Front Cover Paper).

  4. D. Xu‡, J. Zhou‡,*, W. Soon, I. Kutzli, A. Moliere, M. Radiom, S. Handschin, B. Li, L. Li, C. Ewald and R. Mezzenga*. Food protein amyloids are safe intergrades for human nutrition Food Amyloid Fibrils as Safe Nutrition Ingredients: In-vitro and In-vivo Assessment. Nature Communications 14(1) 6806, 2023 (co-first author, co-corresponding author).

  5. J. Zhou, T. Li, M. Peydayesh, M. Usuelli, V. Bueno, J. Teng, L. Wang and R. Mezzenga*. Oat plant amyloids for sustainable functional materials. Advanced Sciences 9(4), 2104445, 2022. (Front Cover Paper)

News

1. The lab opens in 1st July.
 

Interested in joining our lab ?

We are recruiting for Postdocs and telanted PhD students.

We are always welcoming self-funded joint postdoc/students.

Please send your CV and the names of three references to Dr. Jiangtao Zhou (jiangtao.zhou@hest.ethz.ch)