Small RNAs in Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas

Speaker

Dr. Tao Cai

Time

2:00pm-3:00pm, Monday, 10 Mar. 2008

Location

Room 610, New Life Science Building, Peking University

Bio

• Tao Cai got his bachelor degree in Physiology & Biophysics from Peking University in 2001, and continued Ph.D research at CBI of PKU from 2001-2006. He is now a postdoc fellow at NIBS. Tao participated in a bacterial genome sequencing project in 2002, then he worked in the area of genome annotation and genome comparison. After that, he switched the attention to the genomic non-coding region. During the postdoc at NIBS, he focused on the small RNAs analysis in Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas by deep sequencing technology. Recently, their work about small RNAs' sorting in Arabidopsis was accepted by Cell.

Recently Publications

• Shijun Mi*, Tao Cai*, Yugang Hu, Yemiao Chen, Emily Hodges, Fangrui Ni, Liang Wu, Shan Li, Huanyu Zhou, Chengzu Long, She Chen, Gregory J. Hannon and Yijun Qi (*co-first auther), Sorting of Small RNAs into Arabidopsis Argonaute Complexes is Directed by the 5’ Terminal Nucleotide, Cell, accepted