MEMBERS

Principal Investigator

  • Email:taoliang@westlake.edu.cn
    Liang  Tao received his bachelor’s degrees in Life Science and Computer Science and later a Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2005 and 2010. Following two years of postdoctoral research at Kansas  University Medical Center, he joined Dr. Min Dong's lab at New England Primate  Research Center / Harvard Medical School. He later moved to Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School. In 2017, he was promoted to the junior faculty rank of instructor at the Dept. of Surgery, Harvard Medical School. In 2018, Dr. Tao joined Westlake University as an assistant professor.

Post-docs

  • Jianhua Luo

    Pioneer Scholar at Westlake Laboratory
    Email:luojianhua@westlake.edu.cn
    M.D., Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology, Fujian Medical University, 2019.
    Research interest: Toxicology and pathology of pathogenic microbial infection
  • Yao Zhou

    Email:zhouyao@westlake.edu.cn
    Ph.D., Microbiology, Westlake University, 2022.
    Research interest: mechanisms of bacterial toxins and effector proteins
  • Lingjun Chen

    Email: chenlingjun@westlake.edu.cn
    Ph.D. Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, 2022
    B.S., Animal Sciences, Nanjing University, 2017
    Research interest: microbiome and health
  • Qiankun Bai

    Email:baiqiankun@westlake.edu.cn
    Ph.D. Preventive Veterinary Medicine , Nanjing Agricultural University, 2023.
    Research interest: Secretion systems in bacteria
  • Ting Peng

    Email:pengting@westlake.edu.cn
    Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,Huazhong Agricultural University, 2022.
    Research interest: Host-pathogen interaction, bacterial pathogenesis, novel protein posttranslational modifications

Graduate Students

  • Qi Yang

    Email:yangqi@westlake.edu.cn
    Ph.D. student (2021-)
    M.S., Chemical Biology, Peking University.
    Research interest: Bacterial pathogenesis, gene editing
  • Chao Ma

    Ph.D. student (2022-)
    Email: machao@westlake.edu.cn
    M.S., Structural Biology, University of Science and Technology of China.
  • Yangyushuang (Shone) Xu

    Ph.D. student (2022-)
    Email: xuyangyushuang@westlake.edu.cn
    Bachelor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Toronto,2022
  • Huajie Zhu

    Ph.D. student (2023-)
    Email: zhuhuajie@westlake.edu.cn
    M.S., Plant Pathology, Zhejiang University, 2023.
    Research interest: Plant-microbe interaction, Microbiology, Gene editing
  • Jingqing Li

    Ph.D. student (2023-)
    Email: lijingqing@westlake.edu.cn
    B.S., Biomedical Science, Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute, 2023
  • Zizhe Wang

    Ph.D. student (2023-)
    Email: wangzizhe@westlake.edu.cn
    M.S., Biochemistry, University of Copenhagen
  • Yulei Zhou

    Ph.D. student (2023-)
    Email: zhouyulei@westlake.edu.cn
    M.S., Pharmacy, Zhejiang A&F University
    Research interest: Transcriptomics, Single Cell Omics, Epigenetics, Bioinformatics, Machine Learning
  • Tianhui Jia

    Email: jiatianhui@westlake.edu.cn
    M.S., Biology, Xiamen University.
    Research experience: the role of cell death in bacteria infection
  • Jie Yin

    Ph.D. student (2024-)Email:yinjie@westlake.edu.cnM.S., Biopharmaceutical Engineering, China Pharmaceutical Universtiy, 2024.Research interest: Reformation and application of bacterial toxins
  • Yahan Wang

    Ph.D. student (2024-)Email:wangyahan@westlake.edu.cnB.S., Biotechnology, Wuhan University, 2024.Research interest: Bacterial pathogenesis, toxicology
  • Yajie Liu

    Ph.D. student (2024-)Email:liuyajie9@westlake.edu.cnB.S.,Biological Sciences, South China Agricultural University, 2023

Research assistant

  • Yihan Gong

    Email:gongyihan@westlake.edu.cnM.Sc., Botany, University of British Columbia, 2024.Research interest: plant-microbe interactions, microbial genetics, microbial pathogenesis

Visiting student

  • Yunxing Yang

    Email:yangyunxing@hospital.westlake.edu.cnPh.D., Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, Zhejiang University, 2019.Research interest: Resistance mechanism of Multidrug-resistant Bacteria
  • Liqian Wang

    Email:wangliqian@hospital.westlake.edu.cnMMed, Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 2018.Research interest: Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Clostridioides difficil

Administrative Staff

  • Yue Ma

    Email: mayue45@westlake.edu.cn
    M.E. Education Administration, Brock University, CA

Alumnus