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; Protein interactome; Toxicity prediction; Metabolomics; Lipidomics; Microplastics; 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

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

1. Environmental Health Perspectives Editorial Advisory Board Member

2. Frontiers in Nutrition Associate Editor

Special Issue Guest Associate Editor “Xenobiotics, Gut Microbiota, and Chronic Disease” 

        https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/59880/xenobiotics-gut-microbiota-and-chronic-disease/magazine

Special Issue Guest Associate Editor “Xenobiotics, Gut Microbiota, and Chronic Disease - Volume II” 

        https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/78026/xenobiotics-gut-microbiota-and-chronic-disease---volume-ii

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

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

3. 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

Special Issue Guest Editor "Advancing Metabolic/Microbial Biomarker Applications in Disease Prevention, Diagnosis and Public Health" 

        https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metabolites/special_issues/8S6T55177U

Special Issue Guest Editor "Recent Advances in Metabolomics (IECM2026)"

        https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metabolites/special_issues/F22TDQ79FL

4. Section Chair of The 5th International Electronic Conference on Metabolomics, 14–16 October 2026. https://sciforum.net/event/IECM2026

KEY PUBLICATIONS 

• Tu P, Xie J, Li X, Ma X, Xing M, Niu H, Wu L, Mo Z, Gong X, Lou X^*, Chen Z^*, Gao B^*( Co-corresponding author), Xu J. What Drives Microplastic Exposure in Human Blood and Feces? Machine Learning Reveals Potential Key Influencing Factors. Environmental Science & Technology, 2026 Jan 13;60(1):1040-1050, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5c07946.

• 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 18;59(45):24291-24301. 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. Environmental Health Perspectives. 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.