BIOGRAPHY

 

 

 

Dr. Tao Li received his Ph.D. degree on Jan/2011 in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then, he worked as a Humboldt fellow in University of Bonn in Germany and a postdoctoral research fellow in Arizona State University in United States. From Jul/2015, he took a PI position at the Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He is primarily interested in programmable DNA nanomachines and analytical applications, involving in these research topics: (1) Structures and ligands of G-quadruplexes and i-motifs; (2) DNA nanomachines and logic computation; (3) In vitro and in vivo detection of nucleic acid biomarkers.

 

 

 

Education and Employment

 

Jul/2015 - Present 

May/2014 - Jun/2015

Feb/2011 - Apr/2014

Sep/2007 - Jan/2011

 

Jul/2004 - Aug/2007

 

Sep/2001 - Jun/2004

Sep/1997 - Jun/2001

Professor; Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China

Postdoc; Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, United States

Humboldt Fellow/Postdoc; Life & Medical Sciences Institute, University of Bonn, Germany

Ph.D.; State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Research Associate; State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

M.Sc.; Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, China

B.S.; Department of Chemistry, Shanxi University, China

 


 

Honors and Awards

 

Dec/2012

Jul/2011

Dec/2010

The Excellent Doctorial Dissertation of Chinese Academy of Science, China

The Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany

The Excellent President Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 


 

Contact

 

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Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China

96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China

(+86) 551 63601813 (Office), 63601375 (Lab)

tlitao@ustc.edu.cn