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

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

Shared evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and cranial placodes 2018 - Journal Article