2001-2006 PhD, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY
1996-2000 Bachelor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2017/4-present, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2017/4-present, Researcher, Joint Life Sciences Center, Peking University-Tsinghua University
2008/11-2017/3, Special Associate Researcher, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (with tenure), Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
2006-2008, Postdoctoral Fellow, Wadsworth Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
2019 Fourth Batch of National Talents Project, Technological Innovation Leading Talent
2018 Ministry of Science and Technology Middle and Young Age Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent
2018 Ministry of Education Science Research Outstanding Achievement Award - Young Scientist Award
2017 Ministry of Education Distinguished Professor
2017 Tan Jiazhen Life Science Innovation Award
2017 National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Young Scientist Fund
2016 Mao Yisheng Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award
2016 Zhongyuan Union Life Science Innovation Breakthrough Award
2016 WuXi AppTec Life Chemistry Scholar Award
2014 National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientist Fund
2013 Beijing Higher Education Young Talent Plan
2006 Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, SUNY at Albany
Research
Ribosome biogenesis Protein biosynthesis regulation DNA replication initiation regulation
N-terminal signal peptides facilitate the engineering of PVC complex as a potent protein delivery system, Jiang, F., Shen, J., Cheng, J., Wang, X., Yang, J., Li, N., Gao, N., and Jin, Q., 2022
Ribosomal protein eL39 is important for maturation of the nascent polypeptide exit tunnel and proper protein folding during translation, Micic, J., Rodriguez-Galan, O., Babiano, R., Fitzgerald, F., Fernandez-Fernandez, J., Zhang, Y., Gao, N., Woolford, J.L., and de la Cruz, J., 2022
Structural Insight into the MCM double hexamer activation by Dbf4-Cdc7 kinase, Cheng, J., Li, N., Huo, Y., Dang, S., Tye, B.-K., Gao, N., and Zhai, Y., 2022
Structural insights into how GlcNAc-1-phosphotransferase directs lysosomal protein transport, Du, S., Wang, G., Zhang, Z., Ma, C., Gao, N., and Xiao, J., 2022
Engineering and functional analysis of yeast with a monotypic 40S ribosome subunit, Hu, X., Jiang, S., Xu, F., Zeng, C., Wang, X., Liu, W., Cheng, A., Ma, C., Gao, N., Zhao, Y., Dai, J., and Zhao, G., 2022
Structural insights into the membrane microdomain organization by SPFH family proteins, Ma, C., Wang, C., Luo, D., Yan, L., Yang, W., Li, N., and Gao, N., 2022
Characterization of Photorhabdus Virulence Cassette as a causative agent in the emerging pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica, Wang, X., Cheng, J., Shen, J., Liu, L., Li, N., Gao, N., Jiang, F., and Jin, Q., 2022
Cryo-EM structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 50S ribosomal subunit bound with clarithromycin reveals dynamic and specific interactions with macrolides, Zhang, W., Li, Z., Sun, Y., Cui, P., Liang, J., Xing, Q., Wu, J., Xu, Y., Zhang, W., Zhang, Y., He, L., and Gao, N., 2022
Transcription shapes DNA replication initiation to preserve genome integrity, Liu, Y., Ai, C., Gan, T., Wu, J., Jiang, Y., Liu, X., Lu, R., Gao, N., Li, Q., Ji, X., and Hu, J., 2021
Structural insight into the mechanism of energy transfer in cyanobacterial phycobilisomes, Zheng, L., Zheng, Z., Li, X., Wang, G., Zhang, K., Wei, P., Zhao, J., and Gao, N., 2021
VHUT-cryo-FIB, a method to fabricate frozen hydrated lamellae from tissue specimens for in situ cryo-electron tomography, Zhang, J., Zhang, D., Sun, L., Ji, G., Huang, X., Niu, T., Xu, J., Ma, C., Zhu, Y., Gao, N., Xu, W., and Sun, F., 2021
Cryo-EM structures of human GMPPA-GMPPB complex reveal how cells maintain GDP-mannose homeostasis, Zheng, L., Liu, Z., Wang, Y., Yang, F., Wang, J., Huang, W., Qin, J., Tian, M., Cai, X., Liu, X., Mo, X., Gao, N., and Jia, D., 2021
Disome-seq reveals widespread ribosome collisions that promote cotranslational protein folding, Zhao, T., Chen, Y.M., Li, Y., Wang, J., Chen, S., Gao, N., and Qian, W., 2021
Structurally Resolved SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Shows High Efficacy in Severely Infected Hamsters and Provides a Potent Cocktail Pairing Strategy, Du, S., Cao, Y., Zhu, Q., Yu, P., Qi, F., Wang, G., Du, X., Bao, L., Deng, W., Zhu, H., Liu, J., Nie, J., Zheng, Y., Liang, H., Liu, R., Gong, S., Xu, H., Yisimayi, A., Lv, Q., Wang, B., He, R., Han, Y., Zhao, W., Bai, Y., Qu, Y., Gao, X., Ji, C., Wang, Q., Gao, N., Huang, W., Wang, Y., Xie, X.S., Su, X.D., Xiao, J., and Qin, C., 2020
Coupling of 5S RNP rotation with maturation of functional centers during large ribosomal subunit assembly, Micic, J., Li, Y., Wu, S., Wilson, D., Tutuncuoglu, B., Gao, N., and Woolford, J.L., Jr., 2020
Structural insights into assembly of the ribosomal nascent polypeptide exit tunnel, Wilson, D.M., Li, Y., LaPeruta, A., Gamalinda, M., Gao, N., and Woolford, J.L., Jr., 2020
Structural snapshots of human pre-60S ribosomal particles before and after nuclear export, Liang, X., Zuo, M.Q., Zhang, Y., Li, N., Ma, C., Dong, M.Q., and Gao, N., 2020
Potent Neutralizing Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 Identified by High-Throughput Single-Cell Sequencing of Convalescent Patients` B Cells, Cao, Y., Su, B., Guo, X., Sun, W., Deng, Y., Bao, L., Zhu, Q., Zhang, X., Zheng, Y., Geng, C., Chai, X., He, R., Li, X., Lv, Q., Zhu, H., Deng, W., Xu, Y., Wang, Y., Qiao, L., Tan, Y., Song, L., Wang, G., Du, X., Gao, N., Liu, J., Xiao, J., Su, X.D., Du, Z., Feng, Y., Qin, C., Qin, C., Jin, R., and Xie, X.S., 2020
Loss of a single methylation in 23S rRNA delays 50S assembly at multiple late stages and impairs translation initiation and elongation, Wang, W., Li, W., Ge, X., Yan, K., Mandava, C.S., Sanyal, S., and Gao, N., 2020
Structural insights into secretory immunoglobulin A and its interaction with a pneumococcal adhesin, Wang, Y., Wang, G., Li, Y., Zhu, Q., Shen, H., Gao, N., and Xiao, J., 2020
Cooperative transport mechanism of human monocarboxylate transporter 2, Zhang, B., Jin, Q., Xu, L., Li, N., Meng, Y., Chang, S., Zheng, X., Wang, J., Chen, Y., Neculai, D., Gao, N., Zhang, X., Yang, F., Guo, J., and Ye, S., 2020
Area of Focus
Photosynthesis | Electron Transfer | Regulation | Chloroplast | Development | Atp Synthase | Biogenesis | Protein Assembly | Molecular Mechanism | Arabidopsis