Kun Zhou

Kun Zhou, PhD, is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on DNA nanotechnology, programmable biomolecular assembly, and mechanobiology. He develops DNA-based nanoscale systems to control protein organization and conformation and to investigate how mechanical forces regulate protein function.

Dr. Zhou’s work spans DNA origami, DNA–protein hybrid nanostructures, programmable protein assembly, and molecular devices for applying and measuring forces at the nanoscale. His recent research uses mechanically programmable DNA nanostructures to study force-sensitive proteins and cellular mechanotransduction. His work has been published in journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Science Advances, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, ACS Nano, and Nano Letters.