Student
University of California, Davis
My name is Jingyuan (Jack) Zheng. I am a fourth-year PhD student in Dr. Angela Zivkovic lab, Nutrition Department, University of California, Davis. My research interests are high-density lipoprotein structure and its association with chronic diseases. We have developed validated HDL isolation protocols with high yield and specificity (Zheng, et al. 2021), and methods to accurately and reliably characterize HDL particle size and subclass abundance with transmission electron microscopy (manuscript in preparation). We have applied these techniques to understand the structural difference of HDL between patients with dementia and normal cognition (manuscript in preparation), between participants with soluble fiber supplements (Kang et al., 2022), between different nutrient supplement programs for mothers in Ghana (Hong et al. 2022), and with disease-related modified HDL, presented in this meeting.