Asst Prof Anni Zhang

Before joining NTU, Anni was a Research Associate at the Alm Lab at MIT from 2023-2024, where she previously held a postdoctoral position from 2018 to 2023. Her research during this period focused on identifying bacteria-phage interactions within human gut microbiomes and developing faster, more accurate tools for sequencing alignment and variant identification. Anni earned her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2018. Her doctoral research was centred on identifying high-risk antibiotic resistance genes in environmental microbiomes via bioinformatics into microbial genomes and metagenomes. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Biology at Nanjing University in 2014. During her undergraduate, she studied antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in yeasts.