Publications

Preprints and work in preparation

	Kexin Zhang, Nikolaus Grigorieff. Improved Cryo-EM Reconstruction of Sub-50 kDa Complexes Using 2D Template Matching In preparation (2025). No link available yet.
	Aaditya V. Rangan, Wai-Shing Tang, Pilar Cossio, Kexin Zhang, Nikolaus Grigorieff. Estimating the tails of the spectrum of the Hessian of the log-likelihood for ab-initio single-particle reconstruction in electron cryomicroscopy arXiv (2024).

Journal articles

	Kexin Zhang, Pilar Cossio, Aaditya V. Rangan, Bronwyn A. Lucas, Nikolaus Grigorieff. A New Statistical Metric for Robust Target Detection in Cryo-EM Using 2D Template Matching IUCrJ (2025).
	Bronwyn A. Lucas, Kexin Zhang, Sarah Loerch, Nikolaus Grigorieff. In situ single particle classification reveals distinct 60S maturation intermediates in cells eLife (2022).
	Kexin Zhang, Kyrillos Abdallah, Pujan Ajmera, Kyle Finos, Andrew Looka, Joseph Mekhael, Aaron T. Frank*. CS-Annotate: A Tool for Using NMR Chemical Shifts to Annotate RNA Structure Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2021).
	Kexin Zhang, Aaron T. Frank*. Probabilistic Modeling of RNA Ensembles Using NMR Chemical ShiftsArticle The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2021).
	Jingru Xie, Kexin Zhang, Aaron T. Frank*. Pyshifts: a PyMOL plugin for chemical shift-based analysis of biomolecular ensembles Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2020).
	Kexin Zhang, Hao Huang, Hsiang-Chieh Hung, Chuan Leng, Shuai Wei, Ralph Crisci, Shaoyi Jiang, Zhan Chen. Strong hydration at the poly (ethylene glycol) brush/albumin solution interface Langmuir (2020).
	Chelsey A. Del Grosso, Chuan Leng, Kexin Zhang, Hsiang-Chieh Hung, Shaoyi Jiang, Zhan Chen, Jonathan J. Wilker*. Surface hydration for antifouling and bio-adhesion Chemical Science (2020).
	Kexin Zhang, Aaron T. Frank*. Conditional Prediction of Ribonucleic Acid Secondary Structure Using Chemical Shifts The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2019).
	Chuan Leng, Hao Huang, Kexin Zhang, Hsiang-Chieh Hung, Yao Xu, Yaoxin Li, Shaoyi Jiang, Zhan Chen. Effect of surface hydration on antifouling properties of mixed charged polymers Langmuir (2018).
	Chuan Leng, Shuwen Sun, Kexin Zhang, Shaoyi Jiang, Zhan Chen. Molecular level studies on interfacial hydration of zwitterionic and other antifouling polymers in situ Acta Biomaterialia (2016).
	Chen Wang, Yue Zhou, Kexin Zhang, Xingguo Nie, Xinghua Xia*. Fast and sensitive detection of protein concentration in mild environments Talanta (2015).

Thesis

Kexin Zhang. “Multiscale Modeling of RNA Structures Using NMR Chemical Shifts.” PhD diss., 2020.