General

Junbiao Dai

deputy Director of Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology,SIAT,CAS
Director of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Genomics
Director of Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Synthetic Genomics
E-mail: junbiao.dai@siat.ac.cn

Research Areas

Dr. Dai’s research interests lie in synthetic biology using different model organisms, focusing on development of new technologies for genes synthesis, assembly and synthetic genomics.

Education

Aug. 2000-Aug. 2006  

Ph.D in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, USA

Sep. 1997-Jun. 2000

Master of Science in Cell Biology

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Sep. 1993-Jun. 1997

Bachelor of Science in Biology

Nanjing University, Nanjing, China


Experience

   
Work Experience
May. 2017-Current

Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science (SIAT), Shenzhen, China

Mar. 2011-Apr. 2017

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Sep. 2006-Feb. 2011

Post-doctoral Research Fellow with Albert Lehninger Research Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA


Teaching Experience

2012-2017 Instructor of Molecular Biology class, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Honors & Distinctions

2018  Newton Advanced Fellowship, The Royal Society, UK

2018  C.C. Tan Life Science Innovation Award, China

2017  National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, NSFC, China

2017  Top Ten Scientific Advances, China

2013  Bayer Investigator Award, Tsinghua University, China

2012  Janssen Investigator Award, Tsinghua University, China

2011  The Albert Lehninger Research Award, Johns Hopkins University USA