Bei GAO

Email: bgao@nuist.edu.cn

Selected as "World's Top 2% Scientists" list from 2022 to 2025. 

https://topscinet.com/scientist_profile/Gao,%20Bei/2016/?stype=single_year

RESEARCH INTEREST

Environmental toxicology; Gut microbiome; Microplastics; Protein interactome; Toxicity prediction; Metabolomics; Lipidomics; Stable isotope tracing

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCES

07/2023-                 Associate professor, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

10/2020-06/2023    Assistant professor, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

1/2019-9/2020    Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA

1/2017-12/2018    Postdoctoral scholar, NIH West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California, Davis, USA

8/2016-12/2016    Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

 

EDUCATION

8/2013-12/2016      Ph.D., Environmental Health Science, University of Georgia, USA

FUNDING

1.      National Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥300,000, 2022.01.01-2024.12.31, PI

2.      Key Technology R&D Program of Jiangsu Province, ¥3,000,000, 2022.07-2025.06, co-PI

3.      Science and Technology Innovation Project of Nanjing City, ¥30,000, 2022.07-2023.07, PI

4.   Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Startup Funding, ¥300,000, 2021.01.01-2023.12.31, PI

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

1. Environmental Health Perspectives Editorial Review Board Member

2. Metabolites Editorial Board Member

Special Issue Guest Editor "Effects of Environmental Exposure on Host and Microbial Metabolism"

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metabolites/special_issues/VKC5O283QF

Special Issue Guest Editor "Dietary Effects on Gut Microbial Metabolism and Intestinal Inflammation in Mammals" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metabolites/special_issues/dietary_gut_microbial_metabolism_mammal

3. Frontiers in Nutrition Associate Editor

Special Issue Guest Associate Editor“Edible Mushrooms and the Gut Microbiota”

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/45450/edible-mushrooms-and-the-gut-microbiota

KEY PUBLICATIONS 

Full lists：https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bei-Gao-5

• Gan X, Li G, Yang W, Xu J, Albert R, Gao B*. A protein interactome-based framework reveals the general toxicity of chemicals. Environmental Science & Technology, 2025 Nov. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5c08341.

• Martino C^#, Zaramela L^#, Gao B^# (Co-first author), Embree M, Tarasova1 J, Parker S, Wang Y, Chu H,Chen P, Lee K, Galzerani1 D, Gengatharan J, Lekbua A, Neal M, Knight R, Tuskamoto H, Metallo C, Schnabl B, Zengler K. Acetate reprograms gut microbiota during alcohol consumption.Nature Communications, 2022,13, 4630. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31973-2.

• Gao B, Bian X, Mahbub R, Lu K. Sex-Specific Effects of Organophosphate Diazinon on the Gut Microbiome and Its Metabolic Functions. Environ Health Perspect. 2017 Feb;125(2):198-206. doi: 10.1289/EHP202. Selected as Papers of the Month by the NIEHS.  

• Llorente C, Tonetti F, Bruellman R, Brea R, Pell N, Hartmann P, Maccioni L, Han H, Cabré N, Liu J, Eguileor A, Fondevila M, Meijnikman A, Hsu C, Alghafri A, Zhou R, Gao B, Duan Y, Zhang P, Febbraio M, Taniguchi K, Newberry R, Fouts D, Brenner D, Starkel P, Karin M, Schnabl B.mAChR4 suppresses liver disease via GAP-induced antimicrobial immunity. Nature. 2025,8,20. 10.1038/s41586-025-09395-z.

• Duan Y, Llorente C, Lang S, Brandl K, Chu H, Jiang L, White R, Clarke T, Nguyen K, Torralba M, Shao Y, Liu J, Hernandez-Morales A, Lessor L, Rahman I, Miyamoto Y, Ly M, Gao B, Sun W, Kiesel R, Hutmacher F, Lee S, Ventura-Cots M, Bosques-Padilla F, Verna E, Abraldes J, Brown Jr R, Vargas V, Altamirano J, Caballería J, Shawcross D, Ho S, Louvet A, Lucey M, Mathurin P, Garcia-Tsao G, Bataller R, Tu X, Eckmann L, Donk W, Young R, Lawley T, Stärkel P, Pride D, Fouts D, Schnabl B. Bacteriophage targeting of gut bacterium attenuates alcoholic liver disease. Nature, 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1742-x. 

• Cai D, Wang J, Gao B, Li J, Wu F, Zou J, Xu J, Jiang Y, Zou H, Huang Z, Borowsky A, Bold R, Lara P, Li J, Chen X, Lam K, To K, Kung H, Fiehn O, Zhao R, Evans R, Chen H. RORγ is a targetable master regulator of cholesterol biosynthesis in a cancer subtype. Nature Communications, 2019; 10:4621. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12529-3.