Tao Long
Academic Appointments
- Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology
Key Documents
Contact Information
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 725-7613
Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Burroughs Wellcome Predoctoral Fellowship, Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2004-2009)
- Joseph Henry Merit Prize, Princeton University (2004-2005)
- Chun-Tsung Scholars, Chun-Tsung Endowment (2002-2004)
Professional Education
| Doctor of Philosophy: | Princeton University (2010) |
| Bachelor of Science: | Peking University, Physics (2004) |
Stanford Advisors
| Lucille Shapiro: | Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor |
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Studying design principles of Caulobacter crescentus cell-cycle circuit by introducing genetic modifications into the circuit and applying live-cell time-lapse microscopy to track dynamics of fluorescently-labeled master cell-cycle regulators
Publications
- Measurement of the copy number of the master quorum-sensing regulator of a bacterial cell. Biophys J. 2010; (9): 2024-31
- Negative feedback loops involving small regulatory RNAs precisely control the Vibrio harveyi quorum-sensing response. Mol Cell. 2010; (4): 567-79
- Probing bacterial transmembrane histidine kinase receptor-ligand interactions with natural and synthetic molecules. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010; (12): 5575-80
- Information processing and signal integration in bacterial quorum sensing. Mol Syst Biol. 2009: 325
- Quantifying the integration of quorum-sensing signals with single-cell resolution. PLoS Biol. 2009; (3): e68
- The yeast cell-cycle network is robustly designed. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004; (14): 4781-6
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