Yongqiang Zhang, PhD Becton Dickinson Diagnostics

Dr. Zhang has been working with the Industrial Microbiology Applications group within BD Diagnostics since 2012, conducting feasibility studies and providing advanced technical support for the BDFACSMicroCountTM automated flow cytometer platform. Prior to joining BD, Dr. Zhang was a research fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he studied mechanisms of antifungal agents and fungal pathogenesis. Dr. Zhang obtained a doctoral degree in 2003 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Plant Pathology, where he studied regulatory mechanism of metabolism.