Email

zlyu@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
Translational Microbiome

Director

CMMR Cultivation Labs
Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research (CMMR)
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Addresses

Baylor College of Medicine (Lab)

Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Room 744E
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Baylor College of Medicine (Office)

Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Room 739ED
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Georgia

10/2018 - Athens, Georgia United States

Synthetic biology

PhD from China Agricultural University

12/2012 - Beijing, China

Microbial ecology

BS from Shandong University

07/2006 - Jinan, China

Microbiology

Internship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

05/2006 - Shanghai, China

Microbial ecology

Professional Interests

• Cultivation-dependent microbial discovery
• Functional studies of the human microbiota
• Methanogenic archaea and human health

Selected Publications

• Lyu, Z. "Back to the Source: Molecular Identification of Methanogenic Archaea as Markers of Colonic Methane Production." Dig Dis Sci. 2021; Pubmed PMID: 33469805
• Lyu, Z; Shao, N; Chou, CW; Shi, H; Patel, R; Duin, EC; Whitman, WB. "Posttranslational Methylation of Arginine in Methyl Coenzyme M Reductase Has a Profound Impact on both Methanogenesis and Growth of Methanococcus maripaludis." 2020; Pubmed PMID: 1740491
• Lyu, Z; Whitman, WB. "Transplanting the pathway engineering toolbox to methanogens." Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2019; Pubmed PMID: 30875664
• Lyu, Z; Shao, N; Akinyemi, T; Whitman, WB. "Methanogenesis." Curr Biol. 2018; Pubmed PMID: 29990451

Memberships

American Society of Microbiology

(07/2014)