Education:

• BS (2007),     Nanjing University

• MS (2010),    Xiamen University

• PhD (2015),    Emory University

• Postdoc (2019), University of California, Berkeley 
  

Principal Research Interests:
Analytical chemistry and Biomaterials ,Protein/peptide self-assembly, Protein-mimetic polymers

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Dan Cheng, Xin Chen, Weijia Zhang, Pan Guo, Wenhui Xue, Junfan Xia, Siyu Wu, Junhui Shi, Dan Ma, Xiaobing Zuo, Bin Jiang, Shaowei Li, Ningshao Xia, Yunbao Jiang, Vincent P. Conticello, Tao Jiang. Design of Multicomponent Peptide Fibrils with Ordered and Programmable Compositional Patterns. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, e202303684.

2. Tao Jiang, Baofu Qiao, Zahra Hemmatian, Yun Zhou, Aaron Hall, Andrew D. Couse, Haiyan Huang, Marco Rolandi, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Ting Xu. Single-chain heteropolymers transport protons selectively and rapidly. Nature, 2020, 577, 216-220.

3. Brian Panganiban, Baofu Qiao, Tao Jiang, Christopher DelRe, Mona M. Obadia, Trung Dac Nguyen, Anton A. A. Smith, Aaron Hall, Izaac Sit, Marquise G. Crosby, Patrick B. Dennis, Eric Drockenmuller, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Ting Xu. Random heteropolymers preserve protein function in foreign environments. Science, 2018, 359, 1239-1243.

4. Tao Jiang, Vincent P. Conticello. Programmable fabrication of multilayer collagen nanosheets of defined composition. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2018, 1777, 221-232.

5. Tao Jiang, Elizabeth L. Magnotti, Vincent P. Conticello. Geometrical frustration as a potential design principle for peptide-based assemblies. Interface Focus, 2017, 7, 20160141.

6. Tao Jiang, Travis Meyer, Charles Modlin, Xiaobing Zuo, Vincent P. Conticello, Yonggang Ke. Structurally ordered nanowire formation from co-assembly of DNA origamis and collagen-mimetic peptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 14025-14028.

7. Tao Jiang, Owen A. Vail, Zhigang Jiang, Xiaobing Zuo, Vincent P. Conticello. Rational design of multilayer collagen nanosheets with compositional and structural control. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137, 7793-7802.

8. Tao Jiang, Daiping Guo, Qian Wang, Xin Wu, Zhao Li, Zhenhua Zheng, Boyuan Yin, Xia Lin, Jixian Tang, Wenxin Luo, Ningshao Xia, Yunbao Jiang. Developing a genetically encoded green fluorescent protein mutant for sensitive light-up fluorescent sensing and cellular imaging of Hg(II). Analytica Chimica Acta, 2015, 876, 77-82.

9. Tao Jiang, Chunfu Xu, Xiaobing Zuo, Vincent P. Conticello. Structurally homogeneous nanosheets from self-assembly of a collagen-mimetic peptide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014, 53, 8367-8371. (Hot Paper)

10. Tao Jiang, Chunfu Xu, Yang Liu, Zheng Liu, Joseph S. Wall, Xiaobing Zuo, Tianquan Lian, Khalid Salaita, Chaoying Ni, Darrin Pochan, Vincent P. Conticello. Structurally defined nanoscale sheets from self-assembly of collagen-mimetic peptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136, 4300-4308.