Education:

• BS (2007),     Nanjing University

• MS (2010),    Xiamen University

• PhD (2015),    Emory University

• Postdoc (2019), University of California, Berkeley 
  

Principal Research Interests:
Analytical chemistry and Biomaterials ,Protein/peptide self-assembly, Protein-mimetic polymers

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Fan Jia, Tian Luo, Jinyan Zhuang, Pan Guo, Ning Fang, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang. Noncovalently bridging cell-surface proteins using synthetic peptides to modulate cell apoptosis. Nano Letters, 2025, 25, 268-275.

2. Xin Chen, Cai Xia, Chenru Wang, Xiaobing Zuo, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang. Preserving structurally labile peptide nanosheets after molecular functionalization of the self-assembling peptides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, 63, e202315296.

3. Pan Guo, Xingjing Zhang, Jingsheng Chen, Xiaoyong Chen, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang. On-demand elongation of peptide nanofibrils at cellular interfaces to modulate cell–cell interactions. Nano Letters, 2024, 24, 11194-11201.

4. Dan Cheng, Xin Chen, Weijia Zhang, Pan Guo, Wenhui Xue, Junfan Xia, Siyu Wu, Junhui Shi, Dan Ma, Xiaobing Zuo, Bin Jiang, Shaowei Li, Ningshao Xia, Yun-Bao Jiang, Vincent P. Conticello, Tao Jiang. Design of Multicomponent Peptide Fibrils with Ordered and Programmable Compositional Patterns. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202303684.

5. Pan Guo, Di Wang, Shumin Zhang, Dan Cheng, Siyu Wu, Xiaobing Zuo, Yun-Bao Jiang, Tao Jiang. Reassembly of peptide nanofibrils on live cell surfaces promotes cell–cell interactions. Nano Letters, 2023, 23, 6386-6392.

6. Tao Jiang, Baofu Qiao, Zahra Hemmatian, Yun Zhou, Aaron Hall, Andrew D. Couse, Haiyan Huang, Marco Rolandi, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Ting Xu. Single-chain heteropolymers transport protons selectively and rapidly. Nature, 2020, 577, 216-220.

7. Brian Panganiban, Baofu Qiao, Tao Jiang, Christopher DelRe, Mona M. Obadia, Trung Dac Nguyen, Anton A. A. Smith, Aaron Hall, Izaac Sit, Marquise G. Crosby, Patrick B. Dennis, Eric Drockenmuller, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Ting Xu. Random heteropolymers preserve protein function in foreign environments. Science, 2018, 359, 1239-1243.

8. Tao Jiang, Travis Meyer, Charles Modlin, Xiaobing Zuo, Vincent P. Conticello, Yonggang Ke. Structurally ordered nanowire formation from co-assembly of DNA origamis and collagen-mimetic peptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 14025-14028.

9. Tao Jiang, Owen A. Vail, Zhigang Jiang, Xiaobing Zuo, Vincent P. Conticello. Rational design of multilayer collagen nanosheets with compositional and structural control. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137, 7793-7802.

10. Tao Jiang, Daiping Guo, Qian Wang, Xin Wu, Zhao Li, Zhenhua Zheng, Boyuan Yin, Xia Lin, Jixian Tang, Wenxin Luo, Ningshao Xia, Yunbao Jiang. Developing a genetically encoded green fluorescent protein mutant for sensitive light-up fluorescent sensing and cellular imaging of Hg(II). Analytica Chimica Acta, 2015, 876, 77-82.

11. Tao Jiang, Chunfu Xu, Xiaobing Zuo, Vincent P. Conticello. Structurally homogeneous nanosheets from self-assembly of a collagen-mimetic peptide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014, 53, 8367-8371. (Hot Paper)

12. Tao Jiang, Chunfu Xu, Yang Liu, Zheng Liu, Joseph S. Wall, Xiaobing Zuo, Tianquan Lian, Khalid Salaita, Chaoying Ni, Darrin Pochan, Vincent P. Conticello. Structurally defined nanoscale sheets from self-assembly of collagen-mimetic peptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136, 4300-4308.