We develop next generation technologies to interrogate and perturb mammalian epigenome, transcriptome and epitranscriptome in a programmable and predictable manner using cutting-edge molecular biology and synthetic biology approach. We use nuclease dead CRISPR-Cas (Cas9, Cas12, Cas13) as a starting material / building block and playing around different self / orthogonal proteins and RNAs to build the molecular tools for interrogating, spatio-temporally regulating novel functions of cells and potential biomedical applications. Beyond molecular technology development, we want to understand how expression stoichiometry of different gene regulatory proteins modulates cell fate reprogramming.
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