Junbiao Dai - Biography#
Professor at Agricultural Genomes Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Dr. Dai got his Bachelor degree from Nanjing University and Master degree from Tsinghua University. Then he went to Iowa State University for Ph.D. study. After graduation in 2006, he joined Jef D. Boeke’s lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a post-doctoral fellow and joined the faculty at Tsinghua University in 2011. In 2017, Dr. Dai moved to Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS. In 2023, he joined the faculty of AGIS, CAAS (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences).
Dr. Dai’s research interests lie in synthetic biology using different model organisms, focusing on the development of new technologies for gene synthesis, assembly and synthetic genomics. He’s one of the key members in synthetic yeast consortium (Sc2.0) and his group finished the synthesis of the yeast chromosome IV, XII and XV. Dr. Dai is also the director of the Center for GP-write China and a founding director of Guangdong Provincial Key laboratory of Synthetic Genomics and Shenzhen Key laboratory of Synthetic Genomics. He is the winner of Albert Lehninger Research Award from Johns Hopkins University, C.C. Tan Life Science Innovation Award, Newton Advanced Fellowship, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and National Ten-thousand Talents Program, China.
Selected Publications
1. Li Cheng et al., Nature Communications, 2024-1-26, 15:770, doi:10.1038/s41467-023-44511-5.
2. Lian-Ge Chen et al., Nature Plants, 2024-1-26, doi:10.1038/s41477-023-01595-7.
3. Guiqi Bi et al., Nature Plants, 2024-1-26, doi:10.1038/s41477-023-01614-7.
4. Weimin Zhang et al., Molecular Cell, 2023-12-7, 83(23):4424-4437.
5. Shuangying Jiang et al., Nature Communications, 2023-11-30,14(1):7886.
6. Jee Loon Foo et al., Cell Genomics, 2023-11-8, 3(11):100435.
7. Zhouqing Luo et al., Genome Biology, 2021, 22: 5.
8. Wei Liu et al., Nature communications, 2018, 9(1): 1936.
9. Zhouqing Luo et al., Nature communications, 2018, 8, 9(1): 1930.
10. Weimin Zhang et al., Science, 2017, 355(6329).
