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2023

Nov 16

Sherry was invited to the Frontiers in Genome Engineering 2023 as a keynote speaker!

Nov 5

Tyler, Zane, and Sherry attended the 2023 AIChE annual meeting in Orlando! Zane gave an oral presentation on this split ABE paper.

Nov 1

Sherry was invited to the US-Korea Synthetic Biology at JBET National Lab!

Oct 12

Sherry was invited to the Center for Genome Engineering – University of Minnesota for a seminar!

Sep 20

Our collaborative paper with Dr. Yang Gao on “A split and inducible adenine base editor for precise in vivo base editing” was just published in Nature Communications!

Sep 11

Our paper on “A split and inducible adenine base editor for precise in vivo base editing” was just published in Nature Communications!

Jul 30

Qiuyue and Sherry attended the 2023 SIMB annual conference in Minneapolis!

Jun 23

Our paper on a unique fungal P450 and the complete biosynthesis of 21R-citrinadin A is just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society! Nature is the best chemist!

Jun 2

Please check our new review on Revolutionizing Genetic Disease Treatment Recent Technological Advances in Base Editing in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering! Very proud of my graduate student Tyler Daniel for leading this comprehensive article!

May 28

The Gao lab welcomes Ananya and Angela, who are sponsored by NIGMS and Rice University SURF program for undergraduate summer research!

Apr 7

Please check our paper using CRISPR-Cas12a Biosensor Array for Ultrasensitive Detection in ACS Sensor with Dr. Yi Zhang @UConn! Very proud of my graduate student Zheng (Byant) You for co-leading this work!

Mar 27

Qichen did a great thesis defense today and he is Dr. Yuan now! We celebrated it so much!

Feb 14

Our joint project led by Prof. Peter Lillehoj was funded by NIAID R61 to develop CRISPR-Cas13 based point-of-care diagnostics!

Jan 31

Gao Lab welcomes new Ph.D. student Tyler Daniel and new research associate Emmanuel Osikpa @JINYA Ramen Bar!

Jan 22 – 25

Tyler, Zane and Sherry attend the 4th International Conference on Base Editing “Enzymes and Applications” (Deaminet 2023) in Palm Spring, California and Zane won the 2nd place in the poster presentation section on our recent PROTAC-CID work! See Rice News.

Jan 12

Our paper on discovering new Diels-Alderase is published in Nature Chemistry! Thanks NIGMS and Welch Foundation for the funding support!

Jan 10

Our paper on developing the PROTAC-CID gene regulation systems has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society! Thanks for my NSF CAREER funding!

Jan 8

Fanglong’s paper on genome mining of fungal natural products using multiplex base editors is online @Journal of the American Chemical Society! Thanks NIGMS and Welch Foundation for the funding support!