Name: Qiulan Zhang

Gender: Female

Job title: Associate professor

Email Address: qlzhang@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience：

Education

2019.01-2020.01: Visiting scholar, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; Supervisors: Prof. Dusan Losic

2008.09-2011.12: Ph.D. in Food Science and Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China; Supervisors: Prof. Yongnian Ni

2003.09~2006.06: MS in Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China; Supervisors: Prof. Yiyuan Peng

1999.09~2003.06: BS in Practical Chemistry, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China

Work Experience

2016.11~present: Associate professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

2012.01~2016.11: Lecturer, College of Chemistry, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

2008.09~2011.12: Experimenter, State key laboratory of food science and technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

2006.07~2008.08: Assistant experimenter, Basic chemistry experimental center, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Teaching：

Organic chemistry

Organic chemistry experiment

Instrumental analysis experiment

Research fields:

1 The National Natural Science Foundation of China (21665017), The study of the assembly of amyloid β-protein induced by metal ions and the inhibition of amyloid β-protein aggregation by graphene quantum dots loaded with curcumin with the application of chemometrics, 01/2017-12/2020, finished.

2 the Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry (SKLEAC201902), Study on the mechanism of beta receptor agonist interaction with DNA and its effect on DNA damage in complex environment and application of chemometrics, 00/2019-12/2020, finished.

3 The Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics (2019014), Study on the mechanism of beta receptor agonist interaction with DNA and its effect on DNA damage in complex environment and application of chemometrics, 05/2020-04/2022, finished.

4 The State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology of Nanchang University (SKLF–KF–201606), The application of muitidimensional data analysis combined with graphene and graphene quantum dots in the interactions of beta-agonists with DNA, 05/2016-05/2018, finished.

5 The Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education (GJJ14204), The application of gold nanorods optical sensor in the detection of DNA damage, 01/2014-12/2015, finished.

Awards and Honors：

1 The prize of natural science award of Jiangxi province, 2013. Research topic: Research in food safety testing with chemometrics methods.

2 The prize of college science and technology progress of Jiangxi's universities, 2013. Research topic: The scientific problems in food safety and food detection research.

3 The prize of college science and technology progress of Jiangxi's universities, 2011. Research topic: The basic chemical problems in the system of life study.

Representative papers and patents：

1 Qiulan Zhang, Linghong Liu, Yongnian Ni, Magnetic reduced graphene oxide (MrGO) nanocomposites as nano carries for loading and transferring of 10-hydroxycamptothecin, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022, 362, 119680.

2 Qiulan Zhang, Linghong Liu, Zhi Zhu, Yongnian Ni, Functionalization of Fe3O4/rGO magnetic nanoparticles with resveratrol and in vitro DNA interaction. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2022, 273, 121032.

3 Zhi Zhu,Qiulan Zhang, Pei Lay Yap P, Yongnian Ni, Dusna Losic, Magnetic reduced graphene oxide as a nano-vehicle for loading and delivery of curcumin. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2021, 252, 119471.

4 Qiulan Zhang, Zhi Zhu, Yongnian Ni, Interaction between aspirin and vitamin C with human serum albumin as binary and ternary systems. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2020, 236, 18356.

5 Qiulan Zhang, Fangyuan Zhang, Yongnian Ni, Serge Kokot, Effects of aluminum on amyloid-beta aggregation in the context of Alzheimer’s disease. Arabian Journal of Chemistry, 2019, 12, 2897-2904.