Prof. Dai received her Bachelor degree in Polymer Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University. She obtained PhD degree in chemistry from The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof Chi Wu, where she investigated the polymer chain dynamics, interactions between the polycations and polyanions and cell-material interactions from the view of polymer physics and chemistry. Then, she undertook postdoctoral training at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University in Prof Lingchong You's lab, where she integrated the stimulus-sensitive materials with synthetic gene circuit to build a versatile manufacturing platform. Since Sep, 2018, she started her lab in iSynBio, focusing on the living fabrications by the engineered bacteria and miniaturized device for protein manufacturing and screening.
TEL：0755-86704727
EMAIL：zj.dai@siat.ac.cn
WEBSITE：http://isynbio.siat.ac.cn/ZDlab/
Publications/Patents (selected)
Lin Wang, Xi Zhang, Chenwang Tang, Pengcheng Li, Runtao Zhu, Jing Sun, Yunfeng Zhang, Hua Cui, Jiajia Ma, Xinyu Song, Weiwen Zhang, Xiang Gao, Xiaozhou Luo, Lingchong You, Ye Chen & Zhuojun Dai*. “Engineering consortia by polymeric microbial swarmbots”. Nature Communications, 2022(13): 3897.
Baizhu Chen, Wei Kang#, Jing Sun#,Runtao Zhu#,Yue Yu, Aiguo Xia, Mei Yu, Meng Wang, Jinyu Han, Yixuan Chen, Lijun Teng, Qiong Tian, Yin Yu, Guanglin Li, Lingchong You, Zhiyuan Liu* and Zhuojun Dai*. “Programmable Living Assembly of Materials by Bacterial Adhesion”. Nature Chemical Biology, 2022(18), 289–294.
Zhuojun Dai*, Xiaoyu Yang, Feilun Wu, Lihua Wang, Kun Xiang, Pengcheng Li, Qingqing Lv, Jinhui Tang, Anders Dohlman, Lei Dai, Xiling Shen, Lingchong You*. “Living fabrication of functional semi-interpenetrating polymeric materials”. Nature Communications, 2021(12): 3422.
Zhuojun Dai, Anna J. Lee, Stefan Roberts, Tatyana A. Sysoeva, Shuqiang Huang, Michael Dzuricky, Xiaoyu Yang, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Lingchong You*. “Versatile biomanufacturing through stimulus responsive cell-material feedback”. Nature Chemical Biology, 2019(15), 1017–1024.
Bo Wang, Zhuojun Dai. Engineering Photosynthetic Microbial Consortia for Carbon-Negative Biosynthesis Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2023 Apr 17;62(17):e202217961.