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Liang Tao, Ph.D.

NEWS & EVENTS

Diyin Li has passed her Ph.D. degree thesis defense. Congratulations!

Diyin Li and Qi Yang's paper, “Bacterial toxins induce non-canonical migracytosis to aggravate acute inflammation”, is online published in Cell Discovery. In addition, Qi Yang was awarded the National Scholarship for Ph.D. students; Huajie Zhu was awarded the Muyuan Scholarship for PhD students. Congratulations!

We have some good news regarding the fund application. The awarded funds include one Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Liang Tao), two Youth Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Jianhua Luo and Yao Zhou), and one Special Program of the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (Ting Peng). Cheers!

Yao Zhou was awarded the Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow of Westlake University. Congratulations!

Yangling Zheng has passed her Ph.D. degree thesis defense. Congratulations!

​Yangling Zheng and Qi Yang's paper, “Identification of a hemorrhagic determinant in P. sordellii TcsH and C. difficile TcdA”, is epub ahead of print on Microbiology Spectrum. Also, Qi Yang was awarded the NSFC Ph.D. Student Program. Congratulations! ​

​Ruoyu, Liuqing, and Jiahao's paper, which provides the structural basis of TcsH recognition by its cellular receptor TMPRSS2, has been published online in Nature Communications. Congratulations!

Yao and Xiechao's paper, which reveals new mechanisms for CROPs-mediated modulation of autoproteolysis and cytotoxicity, has been published online at Nature Communications. Congratulations!

Danyang Li has passed his Ph.D. degree thesis defense. Congratulations!

​Dr. Ting Peng has joined our lab. Warm welcome!

After the rotation, four new Ph.D. students joined our lab: Huajie Zhu, Yulei Zhou, Zizhe Wang, and Jingqing Li. Welcome again!

Yao Zhou obtained funding support from the Postdoctoral Innovation Talents Support Program at China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Congratulations!

We said goodbye to Yuanyuan Zhang. She will join Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital as a postdoctoral fellow.

We bid farewell to Jiahao Zhang. He will join UW-Madison as a Ph.D. student this fall.

Several new members have joined the lab: Qiankun Bai as a postdoc, Tianhui Jia and Xiang Guo as the research assistants, and Huajie Zhu and Jingqing Li as visiting students. Warm welcome!

We said goodbye to Xingxing Li and Hao Fan. Xingxing will join the Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital as an associate research professor; Hao Fan will become a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Yuanyuan Zhang has passed her Ph.D. degree thesis defense. Congratulations!

Xingxing Li and Liuqing He have passed the thesis defense for their Ph.D. degrees. Congratulations to them!

Ms. Yue Ma has joined our lab as an administrative assistant. Welcome!

Drs. Lingjun Chen and Mengting Guo have joined our lab. Welcome!

Hao Fan has won the Muyuan student scholarship. Congratulations!

Our collaborator Nanjia Zhou's team invented a novel tissue-friendly soft hydrogel. This work has recently been published in Nature Electronics. We are glad to be involved in this project and mainly contribute to the in vivo functional analysis part.

​Yao Zhou has passed the thesis defense for her Ph.D. degree. Congratulations!

​Hao Fan, Chao Ma, and Yangyushuang Xu have joined the lab as Ph.D. students. Warm welcome!

Congratulations to Liuqing He for winning the National Scholarship for Ph.D. students. Danyang Li, Yao Zhou, and Xingxing Li are the awardees of the Su-Wu Scholarship! Cheers!

Jianhua Luo won the Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award from Westlake University. Congratulations!

​Yao Zhou and Danyang Li’s paper, “LDLR, LRP1, and Megalin redundantly participate in the uptake of Clostridium novyi alpha-toxin”, is published online in Communications Biology. Congratulations!

Dr. Liang Tao was selected as the "Outstanding Young Scientist" by the Gut microbiota branch of the Biophysical Society of China in 2022. Liuqing He was an awardee of the "Best Poster Presentation" at the "Laoshan" Gut-microbiome Conference.

​Qi Yang's paper, "Protocol for genome-wide CRISPR knockout screens of bacterial cytotoxins in HeLa cells" is available online in STAR Protocols. Congrats!

Yao Zhou is rewarded the “Academic Star” in the Annal Meeting of Zhejiang Medical Association Microbiology and Immunology Branch. Congratulations!

Xingxing Li and Liuqing He’s paper, “Paeniclostridium sordellii hemorrhagic toxin targets TMPRSS2 to induce colonic epithelial lesions”, is available online on Nature Communications. Cheers! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31994-x ​

Our lab has relocated to the new campus in Yungu.

We have three new members joining the lab, Chuntong Bao, Jiahao Zhang, and Yuhui Feng. Warm welcome!

Dr. Liang Tao joined iMETA editorial board as the Youth Editor.

Liuqing He, and Enhui Shen’s paper, “Distinctive signatures of pathogenic and antibiotic resistant potentials in the hadal microbiome”, is available online on Environmental Microbiome.

​Danyang Li,and Liuqing He’s paper, “An Atypical Case of Monomicrobial Clostridioides difficile Septicemia With No Gastrointestinal Manifestations”, is available online on Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

​Jianhua Luo，Qi Yang，Yuanyuan Zhang，Yao Zhou， Liuqing He，and Danyang Li’s paper, “TFPI is a colonic crypt receptor for TcdB from hypervirulent clade 2 C. difficile”, is available online on Cell .

Congratulations to Yao Zhou for winning the Dean's Award!

Congratulations to Yao Zhou for winning the National Scholarship for PhD student, Diyin Li for winning the Su-Wu Scholarship, and Danyang Li for winning the Sino Biological Scholarship!

Welcome Qi Yang, a new PhD student, to the lab.

Dr. Liang Tao joined The Innovation editorial office as the Youth Editor.

Dr. Liang Tao was invited as the committee member of the Biophysical Society of China-Gut Microbiome branch.

We welcome Fen Cai, Mingjie Ma, and Hao Fan, three new research assistants, to the lab.

Yao Zhou, Diyin Li, and Jianhua Luo’s paper, “Sulfated glycosaminoglycans and low-density lipoprotein receptor mediate the cellular entry of Clostridium novyi alpha-toxin”, is available online on Cell Research.

Welcome Xinyue Huang, a new postdoc, to the lab.

Zhenrui Pan, Yuanyuan Zhang, and Jianhua Luo’s paper, “Functional analyses of epidemic Clostridioides difficile toxin B variants reveal their divergence in utilizing receptors and inducing pathology”, has been published in PLOS Pathogens

Welcome Diyin Li, a new PhD student, to the lab.

Enhui Shen’s paper, “Subtyping analysis reveals new variants and accelerated evolution of Clostridioides difficile toxin B”, has been published in Communications Biology.

Welcome Jianhua Luo, a new postdoc, to the lab！

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