Wenting Zhu Princeton University Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Princeton, NJ 08544 EDUCATION Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 12/2010 Dissertation: Mechanisms of Hdac2 function in the regulation of adult cardiac hypertrophy and embryonic myocyte proliferation B.S. in Biological Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 07/2005 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University Postdoctoral Research Associate 05/2011 - present Advisor: Dr Celeste M. Nelson Project: PI3K pathway in mammary gland branching morphogenesis Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Graduate Research Assistant 09/2006 - 05/2011 Advisor: Dr Jonathan A. Epstein Project: Functional study of Inpp5f in the PI3K/Akt pathway and cardiac hypertrophy Regulation of Gata4 activity and stability by Hdac2 Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA Graduate Research Assistant 06/2006 - 09/2006 Advisor: Dr Steve McMahon Project: Function of Usp22, a cancer stem cell marker in transcription and cell-cycle progression Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania Graduate Research Assistant 01/2006 - 05/2006 Advisor: Dr Richard M. Schultz Project: Brac1 in age-associated female infertility TEACHING EXPERIENCE Biology Department, University of Pennsylvania Graduate Student Association Officer 05/2007 - 05/2009 Served in the student advising committee Teaching Assistant, BIOL 121 Molecular Biology 09/2006 - 12/2006 Teaching Assistant, BIOL 101 Introductory Biology 09/2005 - 05/2006 FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Graduate Student Research Fellowship 2007 - 2010 American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Renewal (Rank: 3.97%) 07/2009 - 06/2010 Poster Award in the Annual Biomedical Student Symposium 06/2009 American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Rank: 7.78%) 07/2007 - 06/2009 Graduate Student Teaching Fellowship 2005 - 2006 Wenting Zhu, Ph.D. Page 1/2 PUBLICATIONS & ABSTRACTS 1. Zhu W, Nelson CM. PI3K regulates mammary branch initiation and extension via Akt and Rac1 respectively. Developmental Biology. in revision. 2. Zhu W, Nelson CM. PI3K signaling in the regulation of branching morphogenesis. Biosystems. 2012 Sep; 109(3):403-11. 3. Trivedi CM, Zhu W, Wang Q, Jia C, Kee HJ, Li L, Hannenhalli S, Epstein JA. Hopx and Hdac2 interact to modulate Gata4 acetylation and embryonic cardiac myocyte proliferaction. Dev Cell. 2010 Sep 14; 19(3):450-9. 4. Zhu W, Trivedi CM, Lu MM, Epstein JA. Inpp5f, a novel polyphosphoinositide phosphatase and cardiac hypertrophy. Cell and Developmental Biology 11th Annual Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2010. 5. Zhu W, Trivedi CM, Lu MM, Epstein JA. Inpp5f, a novel polyphosphoinositide phosphatase and cardiac hypertrophy. The Annual CVI Symposium on Cardiovascular Development & Disease, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2008 - 2010. 6. Zhu W, Trivedi CM, Zhou D, Yuan L, Lu MM, Epstein JA. Inpp5f is a polyphosphoinositide phosphatase that regulates cardiac hypertrophic responsiveness. Circ Res. 2009 Dec 4;105(12):1240-7. 7. Chen S, Zhu W, Zhou Q, Chen G. Cytotoxicity and apoptotic effect of phytoceramide IV containing liposomes on murine mastocytoma cell p815. Tsinghua Sci & Technol. 2008 Aug; 13(4): 447-453. 8. Zhu W, Trivedi CM, Lu MM, Epstein JA. Inpp5f, a novel polyphosphoinositide phosphatase and cardiac hypertrophy. Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference, Houston, 2008. 9. Pan H, Ma P, Zhu W, Schultz RM. Age-associated increase in aneuploidy and changes in gene expression in mouse eggs. Dev Biol. 2008 Apr 15;316(2):397-407. 10. Zhang XY, Varthi M, Sykes SM, Phillips C, Warzecha C, Zhu W, Wyce A, Thorne AW, Berger SL, McMahon SB. The putative cancer stem cell marker USP22 is a subunit of the human SAGA complex required for activated transcription and cell-cycle progression. Mol Cell. 2008 Jan 18;29(1):102-11. 11. Trivedi CM, Luo Y, Yin Z, Zhang M, Zhu W, Wang T, Floss T, Goettlicher M, Noppinger PR, Wurst W, Ferrari VA, Abrams CS, Gruber PJ, Epstein JA. Hdac2 regulates the cardiac hypertrophic response by modulating Gsk3 beta activity. Nat Med. 2007 Mar;13(3):324-331. Wenting Zhu, Ph.D. Page 2/2 .