Residency Training Program
RESIDENT PROFILES
CHI ZHANG
Undergraduate: University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
Graduate: Texas A&M University, College Station TX – PhD, Biology
Medical School: University of Miami, Miami FL
Internship: Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami FL
Residency: NYPH/ Columbia University College of P&S, New York, NY
Abstracts and Publications:
Huang, X.P., K.J. Lee, R. Beth, C. Zhang, L.F. Lemanski, and J.W. Walker. Thyroid
hormone regulates ssTnI inactivation in cTnI deficient mouse hearts. J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol.
32:2221-2228, 2000.
Lemanski, L.F., F. Meng, S.L. Lemanski, N. Dawson, C. Zhang, Q. Li, M. Nakatsugawa,
D.K. Dube and X. Huang Creation of chimeric mutant axolotls: a model to study early
embryonic heart development in Mexican axolotls. Anat. Embryol. 203: 335-342, 2001.
Huang X., J. Li, C. Zhang, D. Foster, S.L. Lemanski, D.K. Dube, and L.F. Lemanski
Protein kinase C-mediated desmin phosphorylation is related to myofibril disarray in
cardiomyopathic hamster heart. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 227(11):1039-46, 2002.
Meng, F., X. Huang, C. Zhang, R.W. Zajdel, D. Foster, N. Dawson, S.L.Lemanski, D.
Zawieja, D.K. Dube, L.F. Lemanski Relationship between cardiac protein tyrosine
phosphorylation and myofibrillogenesis during axolotl heart development. Tissue&Cell 35:
133-142, 2003.
Zhang, C., S.M. LaFrance, S.L. Lemanski, X. Huang, D.K. Dube and L.F. Lemanski
Sheep Heart RNA Stimulates Myofibril Formation and Beating in Cardiac Mutant Axolotl
Hearts in Organ Culture. Anat. Embryol., 206(6):495-506, 2003.
Zhang, C., X. Huang, S.L. Lemanski, F. Meng, D. Foster, B. Reidel, D.K. Dube and L.F.
Lemanski A point mutation in bioactive RNA results in RNA secondary structure alteration
and failure of mutant heart correction in Mexican axolotls. Anat. Embryol., 206(6): 419-27,
2003.
Zhang, C., Meng, F., X. Huang, R. Zajdel, S. Lemanski, Q. Li, D. Foster, N. Erginel-
Unaltuna, D. Dube and L.F. Lemanski Downregulation of N1 gene expression by
liposome-mediated delivery of anti-sense oligonucleotides inhibits the initial heartbeat in
axolotls. Tissue&Cell, 36:71-81, 2004.
Zhang, C., Osinska, H., S. Lemanski, and L.F. Lemanski Changes in myofibrils and
cytoskeleton of neonatal hamster cardiomyocytes in vitro: an immunofluorescent study.
Tissue&Cell. 37(6):435-45, 2005.
