Tao Yong

Biography

Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. May 1995. Rutgers University. M.S. in Biochemistry and Enzymology. July 1988. Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. B.S. in Biochemistry. July 1985. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. After obtained his Ph.D, in 1995, Dr. Yong Tao joined in Dr. Robert Roeder’s laboratory at The Rockefeller University as a post-doctoral associate and fellow for various projects of eukaryotic gene transcriptional regulation. Yong joined DuPont Crop Protection Products in 1997 and made key contributions to developing high throughput screening capabilities in the Chemical Genomics group. Most notably, he was the lead molecular biologist on the project team that supported the development of the Rynaxypyr and Cyazypyr Insecticides. He transferred to the DuPont Central Research Department in 2008, where he applied his molecular biology skills to two biocatalyst development programs. Yong received accomplishment awards both from DuPont Crop Protection and from DuPont Central R&D for his outstanding and cutting-edge research. Yong have 9 granted patents with a few more pending at DuPont. In 2010, He joined the Institute of Microbiology, CAS as a Principal Investigator. 2010-2013, he was professor and director in department of industrial microbiology and biotechnology, IMCAS. Since 2013, he is professor of CAS key laboratory of microbial physiological and metabolic engineering and R&D Director in Technology Transfer Center, IMCAS. Currently, he is member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Biological Engineering.

Research Interest

Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Biocatalyst Development  1. Synthetic biologic parts development and its application in metabolic engineering.  2. Whole-cell biocatalyst development via metabolic engineering.  3. High-throughput, systematic platform of recombinant protein expression.