Chen Cao

CPRIT Scholar

Assistant Professor - Bioengineering

The Cao Lab utilizes and develops cutting-edge single cell omics, imaging and microfluidics tools to investigate on lineages commitment, cell type evolution and cell-cell interactions. Her research aims to elucidate the gene regulatory grammar in embryogenesis and cancer.

BSB 13.637
Cao lab website
ORCID

Currently accepting undergraduate and graduate students

Publications

Allele-Resolved Hybrid Embryos Reveal the Fates of Regulatory Divergence 2026 - Other

Cereblon influences the timing of muscle differentiation in Ciona tadpoles 2023 - Journal Article

Cereblon controls the timing of muscle differentiation in Ciona embryos 2022 - Other

The hypothalamus predates the origin of vertebrates 2021 - Journal Article

Live-Cell Imaging of NADPH Production from Specific Pathways 2021 - Journal Article

Interfacial Nanoinjection-Based Nanoliter Single-Cell Analysis 2020 - Journal Article

Comprehensive single-cell transcriptome lineages of a proto-vertebrate 2019 - Journal Article

Regulatory cocktail for dopaminergic neurons in a protovertebrate identified by whole-embryo single-cell transcriptomics 2018 - Journal Article