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Name	Wei Tao
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Language ability	Chinese, English, German
Province	Beijing

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Name

Wei Tao

Contact Information

weitao (AT) pku.edu.cn

Language ability

Chinese, English, German

Province

Beijing

University/Lab Affiliation and Title	Peking University
Faculty	Life Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements	1996-1999 PhD, Northeast Normal University, School of Life Sciences 1993-1996 Master's, Northeast Normal University, School of Life Sciences 1985-1989 Bachelor's, Northeast Forestry University, School of Life Sciences
Work Experience	2001 - Present, Peking University, School of Life Sciences, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor 2006 - 2007, Visiting Scholar, DKFZ, German Cancer Research Center 2002 - 2005, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Biochemistry 1999 - 2001, Postdoctoral Fellow, Peking University, School of Life Sciences, Cell Biology
Awards	Peking University Dongbao Teaching Award, 2015 Third Prize in the 5th Young Teachers Basic Skills Competition of Peking University, 2009 Second Prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, 2007

University/Lab Affiliation and Title

Peking University

Faculty

Life Sciences

Academic Background & Achievements

1996-1999 PhD, Northeast Normal University, School of Life Sciences
1993-1996 Master's, Northeast Normal University, School of Life Sciences
1985-1989 Bachelor's, Northeast Forestry University, School of Life Sciences

Work Experience

2001 - Present, Peking University, School of Life Sciences, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor
2006 - 2007, Visiting Scholar, DKFZ, German Cancer Research Center
2002 - 2005, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Biochemistry
1999 - 2001, Postdoctoral Fellow, Peking University, School of Life Sciences, Cell Biology

Awards

Peking University Dongbao Teaching Award, 2015
Third Prize in the 5th Young Teachers Basic Skills Competition of Peking University, 2009
Second Prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, 2007

Areas of Focus	Epigenetics Cellular senescence Cancer biology Aging and related diseases
Publications	Spatiotemporal insight into early pregnancy governed by immune-featured stromal cells, Min Yang, Jennie Ong, Fanju Meng, Feixiang Zhang, Hui Shen, Kerstin Kitt, Tengfei Liu, Wei Tao and Peng Du* Exogenous artificial DNA forms chromatin structure with active transcription in yeast, Zhou JT, Zhang C, Wei R, Han M, Wang S, Yang K, Zhang L, Chen W, Wen MZ, Li C, Tao W and Yuan YJ* Gene body methylation safeguards ribosomal DNA transcription by preventing PHF6-mediated enrichment of repressive histone mark H4K20me3, Xiaoke Huang, Xuebin Zhang, Le Zong, Qianqian Gao, Chao Zhang, Ran Wei, Yiting Guan, Li Huang, Lijun Zhang, Guoliang Lyv* and Wei Tao* Tissue-specific 5-hydroxymethylcytosine landscape of the human genome, Bo He, Chao Zhang, Xiaoxue Zhang, Yu Fan, Hu Zeng, Jun`e Liu, Haowei Meng, Dongsheng Bai, Jinying Peng, Qian Zhang, and Wei Tao and Chengqi Yi* ATF3 drives senescence by reconstructing accessible chromatin profiles, Chao Zhang, Xuebin Zhang, Li Huang, Yiting Guan, Xiaoke Huang, XiaoLi Tian, Lijun Zhang and Wei Tao* Senescence-activated enhancer landscape orchestrates the senescence-associated secretory phenotype in murine fibroblasts, Yiting Guan, Chao Zhang, Guoliang Lyu, Xiaoke Huang, Xuebin Zhang, Tenghan Zhuang, Lumeng Jia, Lijun Zhang, Chen Zhang, Cheng Li and Wei Tao* Chromatin architecture landscape in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell populations, Chao Zhang, Zihan Xu, shangda Yang, Guohua Sun, Lumeng Jia, Lumeng Jia, Zhaofeng Zheng, Quan Gu, Wei Tao, Hui Cheng, Cheng Li* and Tao Cheng* TGF-β signaling alters H4K20me3 status via miR-29 and contributes to cellular senescence and cardiac aging, Guoliang Lyu, Yuting Guan, Chao Zahng, Le Zong, Sun Lei, Xiaoke Huang. Li Huang, Lijun Zhang, Xiaoli Tian, Zhongjun Zhou and Wei Tao, 2018 3′ UTR lengthening as a novel mechanism in regulating cellular senescence, Meng Chen, Guoliang Lyu, Miao Han, Hongbo Nie, Ting Shen, Wei Chen, Yichi Niu, Yifan Song, Xueping Li, Huan Li, Xinyu Chen, Ziyue Wang, Zheng Xia, Wei Li, Xiao-Li Tian, Chen Ding, Jun Gu, Yufang Zheng, Xinhua Liu, Jinfeng Hu, Gang Wei, Wei Tao, Ting Ni. Genome and epigenome analysis of monozygotic twins discordant for congenital heart disease, Guoliang Lyu, Le Zong, Chao Zhang, Xiaoke Huang, Wenbing Xie, Junnan Fang, Yiting Guan, Lijun Zhang, Ting Ni#, Jun Gu#, Wei Tao# Neuronal necrosis is regulated by a conserved chromatin-modifying cascade, Kai Liu, Lianggong Ding, Yuhong Li, Hui Yang, Chunyue Zhao, Ye Lei , Shuting Han, Wei Tao, Dengshun Miao, Hermann Steller, Michael Welsh* and Lei Liu* NuRD blocks reprogramming of mouse somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells, Min Luo, Te Ling, WenbingXie, He Sun, Yonggang Zhou, Qiaoyun Zhu, Meili Shen, Le Zong, Yun Zhao, Tao Ye, Jun Gu, Wei Tao, Zhigang Lu, Ingrid Grummt* The chromatin remodeling complex NuRD establishes the poised state of rRNA genes characterized by bivalent histone modifications and altered nucleosome positions, Wenbing Xie, Ling T, Zhou Y, Feng W, Zhu Q, Stunnenberg HG, Grummt I, Tao W Changes in the position and volume of inactive X Chromosomes during G0/G1 transition, Guanghliang LV, Tan Tan, Zong L, Yuting Guan, Lei Sun, Liang QJ* and Tao W* Metastasis-related methyltransferase Merm1 represses the methyltransferase activity of Dnmt3a and facilitates RNA polymerase I transcriptional elongation, Guoliang Lyu, Le Zong, Chao Zhang, Xiaoke Huang, Wenbing Xie, Junnan Fang, Yiting Guan, Lijun Zhang, Ting Ni#, Jun Gu#, Wei Tao# CHD4 maintains demethylation state of rDNA promoters through inhibiting the expression of the rDNA methyltransferase recruiter TIP5, Ling T, Xie W, Luo M, Shen M, Zhu Q, Zong L, Zhou T, Gu J, Lu Z, Zhang F, Tao W*

Areas of Focus

Epigenetics
Cellular senescence
Cancer biology
Aging and related diseases

Publications

Spatiotemporal insight into early pregnancy governed by immune-featured stromal cells, Min Yang, Jennie Ong, Fanju Meng, Feixiang Zhang, Hui Shen, Kerstin Kitt, Tengfei Liu, Wei Tao and Peng Du*
Exogenous artificial DNA forms chromatin structure with active transcription in yeast, Zhou JT, Zhang C, Wei R, Han M, Wang S, Yang K, Zhang L, Chen W, Wen MZ, Li C, Tao W and Yuan YJ*
Gene body methylation safeguards ribosomal DNA transcription by preventing PHF6-mediated enrichment of repressive histone mark H4K20me3, Xiaoke Huang, Xuebin Zhang, Le Zong, Qianqian Gao, Chao Zhang, Ran Wei, Yiting Guan, Li Huang, Lijun Zhang, Guoliang Lyv* and Wei Tao*
Tissue-specific 5-hydroxymethylcytosine landscape of the human genome, Bo He, Chao Zhang, Xiaoxue Zhang, Yu Fan, Hu Zeng, Jun`e Liu, Haowei Meng, Dongsheng Bai, Jinying Peng, Qian Zhang*, and Wei Tao* and Chengqi Yi*
ATF3 drives senescence by reconstructing accessible chromatin profiles, Chao Zhang, Xuebin Zhang, Li Huang, Yiting Guan, Xiaoke Huang, XiaoLi Tian, Lijun Zhang and Wei Tao*
Senescence-activated enhancer landscape orchestrates the senescence-associated secretory phenotype in murine fibroblasts, Yiting Guan, Chao Zhang, Guoliang Lyu, Xiaoke Huang, Xuebin Zhang, Tenghan Zhuang, Lumeng Jia, Lijun Zhang, Chen Zhang*, Cheng Li* and Wei Tao*
Chromatin architecture landscape in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell populations, Chao Zhang, Zihan Xu, shangda Yang, Guohua Sun, Lumeng Jia, Lumeng Jia, Zhaofeng Zheng, Quan Gu, Wei Tao*, Hui Cheng*, Cheng Li* and Tao Cheng*
TGF-β signaling alters H4K20me3 status via miR-29 and contributes to cellular senescence and cardiac aging, Guoliang Lyu, Yuting Guan, Chao Zahng, Le Zong, Sun Lei, Xiaoke Huang. Li Huang, Lijun Zhang, Xiaoli Tian, Zhongjun Zhou and Wei Tao*, 2018
3′ UTR lengthening as a novel mechanism in regulating cellular senescence, Meng Chen, Guoliang Lyu, Miao Han, Hongbo Nie, Ting Shen, Wei Chen, Yichi Niu, Yifan Song, Xueping Li, Huan Li, Xinyu Chen, Ziyue Wang, Zheng Xia, Wei Li, Xiao-Li Tian, Chen Ding, Jun Gu, Yufang Zheng, Xinhua Liu, Jinfeng Hu, Gang Wei*, Wei Tao*, Ting Ni.*
Genome and epigenome analysis of monozygotic twins discordant for congenital heart disease, Guoliang Lyu, Le Zong, Chao Zhang, Xiaoke Huang, Wenbing Xie, Junnan Fang, Yiting Guan, Lijun Zhang, Ting Ni#, Jun Gu#, Wei Tao#
Neuronal necrosis is regulated by a conserved chromatin-modifying cascade, Kai Liu, Lianggong Ding, Yuhong Li, Hui Yang, Chunyue Zhao, Ye Lei , Shuting Han, Wei Tao, Dengshun Miao, Hermann Steller, Michael Welsh* and Lei Liu*
NuRD blocks reprogramming of mouse somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells, Min Luo, Te Ling, WenbingXie, He Sun, Yonggang Zhou, Qiaoyun Zhu, Meili Shen, Le Zong, Yun Zhao, Tao Ye, Jun Gu, Wei Tao*, Zhigang Lu*, Ingrid Grummt*
The chromatin remodeling complex NuRD establishes the poised state of rRNA genes characterized by bivalent histone modifications and altered nucleosome positions, Wenbing Xie, Ling T, Zhou Y, Feng W, Zhu Q, Stunnenberg HG, Grummt I*, Tao W*
Changes in the position and volume of inactive X Chromosomes during G0/G1 transition, Guanghliang LV, Tan Tan, Zong L, Yuting Guan, Lei Sun, Liang QJ* and Tao W*
Metastasis-related methyltransferase Merm1 represses the methyltransferase activity of Dnmt3a and facilitates RNA polymerase I transcriptional elongation, Guoliang Lyu, Le Zong, Chao Zhang, Xiaoke Huang, Wenbing Xie, Junnan Fang, Yiting Guan, Lijun Zhang, Ting Ni#, Jun Gu#, Wei Tao#
CHD4 maintains demethylation state of rDNA promoters through inhibiting the expression of the rDNA methyltransferase recruiter TIP5, Ling T, Xie W, Luo M, Shen M, Zhu Q, Zong L, Zhou T, Gu J, Lu Z, Zhang F, Tao W*

Epigenetic Programming Synthetic Biology Key Signaling Pathways Chemical Small Molecules Genetic Editing Neurodegenerative Diseases Transcriptional Activity Genome Stability Histone Modification Dna Modification

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