副教授、博士研究生导师、南方医科大学高层次引进人才，罕见与遗传性皮肤病诊断中心副主任。

香港中文大学基因组学与生物信息学硕士、化学病理学博士，多项成果发表在Genome Research和Nature Communication等。主要负责生物信息中心高性能计算平台的运转和开展皮肤、遗传、RNA与皮肤衰老的机制研究。主要研究方向：以大规模生物信息数据分析为主要手段，结合分子生物实验研究非编码元件在干细胞稳态维持的功能及机制；基于高通量DNA测序技术的全新生物标志物发现及临床应用。主要学术业绩：通过整合多组学数据，开发新的数据分析方法，阐述非编码元件在转录和转录后调控的分子作用机制；首次从全基因组水平研究H3K27ac组蛋白修饰水平紊乱引起肌肉干细胞稳态失衡，引起老年肌无力症；开发PARMAP计算生物学框架，有效筛选临床菌株群中潜在耐药功能基因。先后主持国家自然科学基金项目2项、广州市科技计划项目1项、南方医科大学皮肤病医院人才启动项目1项。以通讯作者或第一作者发表SCI论文7篇；以共同作者在Nature Methods、Cell Research等期刊发表SCI论文12篇，累计影响因子约为130，总引用1000多次。

代表性论文

1. Zhang, Y., Shi, Y., Lin, J., Li, X., Yang, B., & Zhou, J.* (2021). Immune cell infiltration analysis demonstrates excessive mast cell activation in psoriasis. Frontiers in Immunology, 4941.

2. Huang, H., Hu, Y., Huang, G., Ma, S., Feng, J., Wang, D., Lin, Y., Zhou, J.* and Rong, Z.*, 2021. Tag-seq: a convenient and scalable method for genome-wide specificity assessment of CRISPR/Cas nucleases. Communications biology, 4(1), pp.1-8.

3. Li, X., Lin, J., Hu, Y., & Zhou, J.* (2020). PARMAP: A Pan-Genome-Based Computational Framework for Predicting Antimicrobial Resistance. Frontiers in microbiology, 11:578795. 

4. Zhou, J. #, So, K.K., Yuan, J., Ding, Y, Chen, F., Huang, Y., Sun, H., and Wang, H. (2019) Elevated H3K27ac in aged skeletal muscle tissue drives a fibrogenic conversion of muscle satellite cells. Aging Cell e12996. 

5. Zhao, Y.#, Zhou, J.#, …, Sun, H., Wang, H. (2019) MyoD induced enhancer RNA interacts with hnRNPL protein via CAAA motif to activate target gene transcription during myogenic differentiation. Nature Communications. 10(1), 5787. 

6. Bao, X., Guo, X., Yin, M., Tariq, M., Lai Y., Kanwal, S., Zhou, J., Li, N., Lv, Y., Pulido-Quetglas, C., Wang, X., Ji, L., Khan, M.J., ..., Sun, H., Wang, H., Fu, X., Zhang, B., Miguel, A.E. (2018). Capturing the Interactome of Newly Transcribed RNA. Nature methods, 15(3), 213.

7. Zhou, J.#, Zhang, S.#, Wang, H., and Sun, H. (2017). LncFunNet: an integrated computational framework for identification of functional long noncoding RNAs in mouse skeletal muscle cells. Nucleic Acids Res 45, e108–e108. (# Co-first author)