12.2025

15. Congratulations to Edgar on his first-author paper being accepted in Protein Science! “Hydrogen–Deuterium Exchange Reveals Catalytically Linked Protein Flexibility in Myoglobin-Mediated Intramolecular C(sp³)–H Activation” A fantastic achievement and well deserved! 🎉🎉

11.2025

14. Congratulations to Sophie on receiving the NTC Undergraduate Research Fellowship! Sophie is a triple major in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Italian, and she is completing her Honors thesis in the Gao Lab. We are incredibly proud of her achievement. 🎉🎉

09.2025

13. Dr. Gao delivered a seminar titled “Protein Biophysics and Enzyme Engineering: Bridging Fundamental Mechanisms with Biomedical and Chemical Applications” in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Tulane University on September 12, 2025.

06.2025

12. Congratulations to Damian on receiving both the CELT Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research Grant and the NTC Summer Research Grant for his research in summer 2025! 🎉🎉

02.2025

11. On February 1, 2025, Gao Lab hosted a workshop for Boys at Tulane in STEM (BATS)! We engaged both students interested in STEM and their teachers, providing an exciting hands-on learning experience! We thank Dr. Julie Albert for her tremendous help!

01. 2025

10. Congratulations to Edgar and Jude on their first paper “Stereoselective construction of chiral flavanones via enzymatic intramolecular C(sp3)-H activation” published in Organic Chemistry Frontiers! 🎉

10. 2024

9. Dr. Gao gave a talk at AICHE in San Diego, California! “Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Activity-Related Dynamics in the TIM Barrel Enzyme Murine Adenosine Deaminase”, AICHE meetings, Fall 2024, Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division, Oct 27-31. San Diego, California, USA.

8. Dr. Gao was invited to join the editorial board of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology!!

7. Dr. Gao gave a talk at ACS Spring Meetings in New Orleans on March 20th, 2024. She also organized the session: BIOT, Biomolecular Engineering and Biophysical Processes: Enzyme Engineering for Biocatalysis.

Lab is looking good!!

01. 2024

6. Welcome our undergraduate researchers: Mark, Kate, Morgan, Brenda, and Maiyan! They joined Gao lab in Spring 2024!

5. On January 22, 2024, Dr. Gao delivered a seminar at the downtown campus of Tulane University School of Medicine.

03. 2024

2023

4. Edgar and Jude joined the GAO lab as graduate students!! Welcome Edgar and Jude! !-Dec. 2023

3. We love proteins!!

2. Our lab (Boggs 343) will be open for business soon!

 

  1. July 31 2023, we have a lab website!