Address : School of Life Sciences and Technology Tongji University 1239 Siping Road Yangpu District
Shanghai, 200092 P.R.China
TEL(O) : 86-21-65985182
Cell Phone : 13023170782
E-mail : gaoshaorong@tongji.edu.cn
Education:
Ph.D. (1996-2000) Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
M.S. (1993-1996) China Agricultural University
B.S. (1989-1993) Shandong Agricultural University
Academia Experience:
January, 2013-present
Professor, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
January, 2011-December, 2012
Associate investigator, NIBS, Beijing 102206, China
September, 2005-December, 2010
Assistant Investigator, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, Beijing 102206,
China
August, 2004- August, 2005
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
May, 2002- August, 2004
Associate Scientist, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
July, 2000- May, 2002
Post-Doc Scientist, Roslin Institute, UK
July, 1998- July, 2000
Research Associate, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, USA
Honors and Awards:
2013 Outstanding youth by NSFC
2011 The award for outstanding youth in Basic Science by Zhou, Guang-Zhao Foundation
2009 Bio-Science Research Award by AppleTech
Membership:
2008-Present International Society for Stem Cell Research
1999-Present Society for the Study of Reproduction
Selected Publications:
- Liu W, Yin J, Kou X, Jiang Y, Gao H, Zhao Y, Huang B, He W, Wang H, Han Z, Gao S. (2014) Asymmetric reprogramming capacity of parental pronuclei in mouse zygotes. Cell Reports 6(6):1008-1016.
- Le R, Kou Z, Jiang Y, Li M, Huang B, Liu W, Li H, Kou X, He W, Rudolph KL, Ju Z, Gao S. (2014) Enhanced telomere rejuvenation in pluripotent cells reprogrammed via nuclear transfer relative to induced pluripotent stem cells. Cell Stem Cell 14(1):27-39.
- Gao Y, Chen J, Li K, Wu T, Huang B, Liu W, Kou X, Zhan Y, Huang H, Jiang Y, Yao C, Liu X, Lu Z, Xu Z, Kang L, Chen J, Wang H, Cai T, Gao S. (2013) Replacement of Oct4 by Tet1 during iPSC induction reveals an important role of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation in reprogramming. Cell Stem Cell 12(4):453-69. (Cover Story; Previewed by Cell Stem Cell)
- Yuan W, Wu T, Fu H, Dai C, Wu H, Liu N, Li X, Xu M, Zhang Z, Niu T, Han Z, Chai J, Zhou XJ, Gao S, Zhu B. (2012) Dense chromatin activates Polycomb repressive complex 2 to regulate H3 lysine 27 methylation. Science 337(6097):971-5. (Co-correspondence)
- Kang L, Wang J, Zhang Y, Kou Z, Gao S. (2009) iPS cells can support full term development of tetraploid blastocyst-complemented embryos. Cell Stem Cell 5(2):135-138. (Highlighted by Nature, Nature China; Selected as “Must Read” by Faculty 1000; Featured in TIME Magazine, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Xinhua News, USA Today, The Scientist, The Economist, ABC News, The Independent, Scientific America etc.)
- Wang S, Kou Z, Jing Z, Zhang Y, Guo X, Dong M., Wilmut I, Gao S. (2010) Proteome of mouse oocytes at different developmental stages. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107(41):17639-44.
- Liu Y, Cheng H, Gao S, Lu X, He F, Hu L, Hou D, Zou Z, Li Y, Zhang H, Xu J, Kang L, Wang Q, Yuan W, Gao S, Cheng T. (2013) Reprogramming of MLL-AF9 leukemia cells into pluripotent stem cells. Leukemia. 2013 Oct 22. doi: 10.1038/leu.2013.304. [Epub ahead of print] (Co-correspondence)
- Jiao J, Yang Y, Shi Y, Chen J, Gao R, Fan Y, Yao H, Liao W, Sun XF, Gao S. (2013) Modeling Dravet syndrome using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and directly converted neurons. Hum Mol Genet. 22(21):4241-52.
- Jiao J, Dang Y, Yang Y, Gao R, Zhang Y, Kou Z, Sun XF, Gao S. (2013) Promoting reprogramming by FGF2 reveals that the extracellular matrix is a barrier for reprogramming fibroblasts to pluripotency. Stem Cells 31(4):729-40.
- Wang Y, Zheng C, Jiang Y, Zhang J, Chen J, Yao C, Zhao Q, Liu S, Chen K, Du J, Yang Z, Gao S. (2012) Genetic correction of β-thalassemia patient-specific iPS cells and its use in improving hemoglobin production in irradiated SCID mice. Cell Research 22(4):637-48.
- Yang P, Wang Y, Chen J, Li H, Kang L, Zhang Y, Chen S, Zhu B, Gao S. (2011) RCOR2 is a subunit of the LSD1 complex that regulates ES cell property and substitutes for SOX2 in reprogramming somatic cells into pluripotency. Stem Cells 29(5):791-801.
- Wu T, Wang H, He J, Kang L, Jiang Y, Liu J, Zhang Y, Kou Z, Liu L, Zhang X, Gao S. (2011) Reprogramming of trophoblast stem cells into pluripotent stem cells by Oct4. Stem Cells 29(5):755-63.
- Kang L, Wu T, Tao Y, Yuan Y, He J, Zhang Y, Luo T, Kou Z, Gao S. (2011) Viable mice produced from 3-factor induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells through tetraploid complementation. Cell Research 21(3):546-9.
- Hu J, Wang F, Yuan Y, Zhu X, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Kou Z, Wang S, Gao S. (2010) The novel importin-alpha family member Kpna7, is required for normal fertility and fecundity in the mouse. J. Biol. Chem. 285(43):33113-22.
- Kou Z, Kang L, Yuan Y, Tao Y, Zhang Y, Wu T, He J, Wang J, Liu Z, Gao S. (2010) Mice cloned from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Biol. Reprod. 83:238-243.
- Zhao Q, Wang J, Zhang Y, Kou Z, Liu S and Gao S. (2010) Generation of histocompatible androgenetic embryonic stem cells using spermatogenic cells. Stem Cells 2010; 28(2):229-239.
- Zhang M, Wang F, Kou Z, Zhang Y, Gao S. (2009) Defective chromatin structure in somatic cell cloned embryos. J. Biol. Chem. 284(37):24981-7.
- Guo X, Gao S. (2009) LGN regulates meiotic spindle organization, anchoring and involves in cortical polarization during mouse oocytes maturation. Cell Research 19(7):838-48.
- Wang Y, Jiang Y, Liu S, Sun X, Gao S. (2009) Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from human beta-thalassemia fibroblast cells. Cell Research 19(9):1120-3.
- Sung LY*, Gao S*, Shen H, Yu H, Song Y, Smith SL, Chang CC, Kuo L, Lian J, Tian XC, Tuck DP, Weissman SM, Yang X, Cheng T (2006) Differentiated cells are more efficient than adult stem cells for cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nat. Genet. 38(11): 1323-1328. (* Co-first author)
