教育经历
2004/09 – 2011/11，华中师范大学，博士
2008/10 – 2010/11，加州大学圣地亚哥分校，联合培养博士
2000/09 – 2004/06，河南大学，学士
工作经历
2011年7月至今：华中师范大学，生命科学学院
研究领域
主要从事资源植物的特性研究：红移叶绿素蓝藻宽光谱能量吸收与转换机制，植物活性小分子鉴定及合成生物学。
科研项目
1、国家自然科学基金（**），红移叶绿素蓝藻的资源发掘与远红光适应机制研究，2018/01-2021/12，主持。
2、国家自然科学基金（**），转运蛋白SaPCT在超积累植物富集镉过程中的功能研究、2014/01-2016/12，主持。
发表论文
1、Zhong-Chun Zhang, Zheng-Ke Li, Yan-Chao Yin, Yaqiong Li, Yu Jia, Min Chen and Bao-Sheng Qiu. 2019. Widespread occurrence and unexpected diversity of red-shifted chlorophyll producing cyanobacteria in humid subtropical forest ecosystems. Environmental Microbiology doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.
2、Jin-Long Shang^#, Zhong-Chun Zhang^#, Xiao-Yue Yin, Min Chen, Fu-Hua Hao, Kai Wang, Jun-Li Feng, Hai-Feng Xu, Yan-Chao Yin, Hui-Ru Tang, and Bao-Sheng Qiu. 2018. UV-B induced biosynthesis of a novel sunscreen compound in solar radiation and desiccation tolerant cyanobacteria. Environmental Microbiology. 20: 200-213
3、Zhong-Chun Zhang, Qingqing Xie, Timothy O. Jobe, Andrew R. Kau, Cun Wang, Yunxia Li, Baosheng Qiu, Qiuquan Wang, David G. Mendoza-Co′zatl, Julian I. Schroeder. 2016. Identification of AtOPT4 as a plant glutathione transporter. Molecular Plant, 9: 481-484.
4、Yanna Feng^#, Zhong-Chun Zhang^#, Junli Feng, Baosheng Qiu. 2012. Effects of UV-B radiation and periodic desiccation on the morphogenesis of the edible terrestrial cyanobacterium Nostoc flagelliforme. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78: 7075-7081
5、Zhong-Chun Zhang, Boxia Chen, Baosheng Qiu. 2010. Phytochelatin synthesis plays a similar role in shoots of the cadmium hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii as in non-resistant plants. Plant, Cell and Environment. 33: 1248-1255