Tao Dong

Tao Dong

Positions

Full Member

The Calvin, Phoebe and Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases

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Background

Educational Background

B.S. Biochemistry, Shandong University, 2003

Doctor of Philosophy Biology, McMaster University, 2010

Biography

Dr. Dong joined the Department of Ecosystem and Public Health in October 2013. Before he joined UCVM he was a Banting postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. John Mekalanos at Harvard Medical School working on bacterial secretion systems and virulence. He received his PhD in 2010 from McMaster University where he studied bacterial general stress response. Dr. Dong’s research will focus on the molecular ecology of waterborne microbes and will contribute to the Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA) program at the U of C.

Looking for highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in bacterial pathogenesis and ecological research. Currently accepting new students