Name: Tao Xu

Country: United States

Affiliation:

Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School

Phone no: 617-309-4058

Email: Send an Email

Address:

One joslin place, Mezzanine Rm4503 Boston, MA 02215

Research Interests:

My research interests include microbial genetics, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology.

Biography:

• Tao Xu received his PhD from the University of Oklahoma, where he developed new genetic tools for microbial engineering and employed enzymological, transcriptomic, and targeted genome-editing approaches to examine the role of polysaccharide degrading genes and carbon catabolite regulation in lignocellulose utilization.
• He then went on to postdoctoral research at Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Medical School investigating the role of gut microbial factors in human health.