Qiao ZHAOProfessor/Center Director

Rebuild plant metabolites biosynthesis pathways in plant-based systems.

Professor, Received Bachelor Degree at the Department of Chemistry in China Agricultural University in Beijing China. Received Ph.D. at the Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology in The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio in USA. Qiao Zhao got his postdoc training at Noble Foundation in Oklahoma USA from 2008-2013. Started independent career at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2014 as Assistant Professor. Relocated to Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology in Shenzhen in 2019 and promoted to Professor there. He is focusing on plant secondary metabolism. 

Contact:0755-86715331

Email:qiao.zhao@siat.ac.cn

Website:http://www.zhaoqiaolab.org/


Publications/Patents(recent)

1.Jie Wu, Yanhong Chen, Yuxin Huang, Bingbing Hao, Shengkun Dai, Lingling Zhao, Zhehui Zhao, Cuihuan Zhao, Limin Zhang, Yunhai Li, Xuexia Xu, Nan Li, Ancheng C. Huang, Jiahai Zhou, Minjia Tan, Wentao Zhu*, Qiao Zhao* (2023) Cytosolic aminotransferase VAS1 coordinates aromatic amino acids biosynthesis and metabolism. Science Advances, 2023. (Accepted). (Co-correspondence author)

2.Shuangying Jiang, Zhouqing Luo, Jie Wu, Kang Yu, Shijun Zhao, Zelin Cai, Wenfei Yu, Hui Wang, Li Cheng, Zhenzhen Liang, Hui Gao, Marco Monti, Daniel Schindler, Linsen Huang, Cheng Zeng, Weimin Zhang, Chun Zhou, Yuanwei Tang, Tianyi Li, Yingxin Ma, Yizhi Cai, Jef Boeke, Qiao Zhao*, Junbiao Dai* (2023) Building a eukaryotic chromosome arm by de novo design and synthesis. Nature Communications (Accepted). (Co-correspondence author)

3.Jie Wu, Wentao Zhu, Xiaotong Shan, Jinyue Liu, Lingling Zhao, and Qiao Zhao* (2022) Glycosides-specific metabolomics combined with precursor isotopic labeling for characterizating plant glycosyltransferases. Molecular Plant 15: 1428–1443. (Cover article)

4.Jie Wu, Wentao Zhu, and Qiao Zhao* (2022) Salicylic acid biosynthesis is not from phenylalanine in Arabidopsis. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. (Breakthrough report).