主持项目：

1、国家自然科学基金面上项目 （2026-2029）

2、国家科技重大专项（2025-2029）项目骨干

3、江苏省前沿技术研发计划（2024-2027）项目骨干

4、国家人才工程青年项目（2024-2027）

5、江苏特聘教授（2023-2026）

6、国家自然科学基金面上项目 （2022-2025）

7、东南大学高校基本科研业务费专项资金-院系联合基金（2022-2023）

8、江苏高校优势学科人才引进经费（2021-2022）

9、东南大学医科攀升计划人才引进科研启动经费（2021-2022）

10、国家自然科学基金青年项目 （2016-2018）

详见Frontiers个人主页或Google Scholar 个人主页

https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1252121/publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x9EXe8UAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

Article：

1. Di Wang^#, Mingzhu Zheng^#, Lei Lei, Jian Ji, Yunliang Yao, Yuanjun Qiu, Lie Ma, Jun Lou, Chuang Ouyang, Xue Zhang, Yuewei He, Jun Chi, Lie Wang, Ying Kuang, Jianli Wang, Xuetao Cao, Linrong Lu*. Tespa1 is involved in late thymocyte development through the regulation of TCR-mediated signaling. Nature Immunology, 13 (6), 560-568, 2012.

2. Di Wang^#, Mingzhu Zheng^#, Yuanjun Qiu, Chuansheng Guo, Jian Ji, Lei Lei, Xue Zhang, Jingjing Liang, Jun Lou, Wei Huang, Bowen Dong, Songquan Wu, Jianli Wang, Yuehai Ke, Xuetao Cao, Yi TingZhou, Linrong Lu*. Tespa1 negatively regulates FcεRI-mediated signaling and mast cell-mediated allergic response. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 211 (3), 2014.  

3. Mingzhu Zheng^#, Dan Li^#, Zhishan Zhao, Dmytro Shytikov, Qin Xu, Xuexiao Jin, Jingjing Liang, Jun Lou, Songquan Wu, Lie Wang, Hu Hu, Yiting Zhou, Xiang Gao*, and Linrong Lu*. Protein phosphatase 2A has an essential role in promoting thymocyte survival during selection. PNAS. 116 (25): 12422-12427 2019. 

4. Chao Zhong^#, Mingzhu Zheng^#, Kairong Cui^#, Andrew J. Martins^#, Gangqing Hu, Dan Li, Lino Tessarollo, Serguei Kozlov, Jonathan R. Keller, John S. Tsang, Keji Zhao, and Jinfang Zhu*. Quantitative Expression of GATA3 Specifies Lineage Fates and Functions of Innate Lymphoid Cells. Immunity. 52(1): 83-95, 2020.  

5. Mingzhu Zheng, Kairui Mao, Difeng Fang, Dan Li, Jun Lyu，Dingkang Peng, Xi Chen, Nikki Cannon, Gangqing Hu, Jiajia Han, Keji Zhao, Wanjun Chen and Jinfang Zhu*. B cell residency but not T cell-independent IgA switching in the gut requires innate lymphoid cells. PNAS. 118 (27): e2106754118 2021. 

6. Mingzhu Zheng^#,*, Chen Yao^#, Gang Ren^#, Kairui Mao, Hyunwoo Chung, Xi Chen, Gangqing Hu, Lei Wang, Xuemei Luan, Difeng Fang, Dan Li, Chao Zhong, Xiaoxiao Lu, Nikki Cannon, Mingxu Zhang, Bhandoola Avinash, Keji Zhao, John J. O'Shea and Jinfang Zhu*. Transcription factor TCF-1 regulates the functions but not the development of lymphoid tissue inducer subsets in different tissues. Cell Reports. 42(8):112924, 2023. 

7. Yu Xu, Mingzhu Zheng*. Protocol for isolating innate lymphoid cells from murine lamina propria of the small intestine. STAR Protocols. 5(4):103360, 2024. 

8. Haofei Wang^#, Xu Liug^#, Wei Huang, Xiaojing Wu, Ying Tang, Mingzhu Zheng*, Haibo Qiu*, Yingzi Huang*. In Vitro Differentiation of Naive CD4+ T Cells into Pathogenic Th17 Cells in Mouse. JoVE. (212), e66718, 2024.

9. Xu Liu^#, Haofei Wang^#, Weijie Ni^#, Xuecheng Dong, Mingzhu Zheng*, Wei Chang*. Global Lactylome Reveals Lactylation-Dependent Mechanisms Underlying CXC Motif Chemokine Ligand 12 Expression in Pulmonary Endothelium During Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. MedComm. 6(9):e70344, 2025.

10. Xu Liu^#, Wei Huang^#, Xiwen Zhang^#, Shiming Li, Haofei Wang, Zongsheng Wu, Shuangfeng Zi, Lu Wang, Ling Liu, Yi Yang, Jianfeng Xie*, Mingzhu Zheng*, Jie Chao*, Haibo Qiu*. Endothelium-Treg Communication Through Extracellular Vesicle Transfer Exacerbates Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.  Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 15(2):e70235, 2026.

Review：

1. Xueyang Bao; Yingyu Qin; Linrong Lu*; Mingzhu Zheng*; Transcriptional Regulation of Early T-Lymphocyte Development in Thymus, Frontiers in Immunology, 2022, 13. Review. 

2. Mingzhu Zheng*; Jinfang Zhu*; Innate Lymphoid Cells and Intestinal Inflammatory Disorders, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, 23(3): 1856. Review. 

3. Yingyu Qin; Xueyang Bao;  Mingzhu Zheng*;  CD8+ T-cell immunity orchestrated by iNKT cells，Frontiers in Immunology, 2022, 13. Review.