毕业于中国海洋大学海洋生命学院，取得海洋生物学博士学位

代表性论文： David Welkie*, Xiaohui Zhang*, Meng L Markillie, Ronald Taylor, Galya Orr, Jon Jacobs, Ketaki Bhide, Jyothi Thimmapuram, Marina Gritsenko, Hugh Mitchell, Richard Smith and Louis A Sherman.2014.Transcriptomic and proteomic dynamics in the metabolism of a diazotrophic cyanobacterium, Cyanothece sp. PCC 7822 during a 24 hour light-dark cycle. BMC Genomics, 15:1185. ( * co-first author) Xiaohui Zhang, Debbie Sherman and Louis Sherman.2014. The uptake hydrogenase in the unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. Strain PCC 7822 protects nitrogenase from oxygen toxicity. J Bacteriol.(196):840-849. Xiaohui Zhang and Louis Sherman. 2012. Alternate copies of D1 are used by cyanobacteria under different environmental conditions. hotosynthesis Research.114(2):133-5. Agervald Asa*, Zhang Xiaohui*, Stensjö K, Devine E, Lindblad P. CalA, a cyanobacterial AbrB protein, interacts with the upstream region of hypC and acts as a repressor of its transcription in the cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain PCC 7120. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010 Feb;76(3):880-90.( * co-first author) Hajime Masukawa, Xiaohui Zhang, Hidehiro Sakurai et. al Survey of the distribution of different types of nitrogenases and hydrogenases in heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria. Marine Biotechnology, (2009) 11(3):397-409 Xiaohui Zhang, Xuecheng Zhang, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa et.al. Cloning and Characterization of hoxH Gene from Arthrospira and Spirulina and its Application in Phyloenetic Study. (2005) Marine Biotechnology, l7. 4287-96. Xiaohui Zhang, Zhenghong sui, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa et.al Cloning and Characterization of [NiFe]-Hydrogenase gene from Arthrospira Platensis FACHB341 ( 2005) High Tech. Letters. Vol.11, NO.41, 400-405. (EI收录 )