Xia Zhou M.D. is currently the Research Aassistant Professor in the Department of Biological Science at The Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST), University of Idaho. Dr. Zhou has was a physician at Qingdao University Medical College during 1995-2001, in China. She received her M.D. from Shandong University's School of Medicine in 1988. Dr. Zhou earned her M.S. in molecular microbiology from Qingdao University Medical College in 1999. Her research interests include human microbial ecology of urogenital tract, eco-pathogenesis of urinary tract infections and polymicrobial infections.