Journal of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Dr. Huatao Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Missouri.  Before joining MU, he was a research scientist in the Laboratory of Dr. Jeff F. Miller at UCLA, whose group discovered diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs). He also studied mobile group II introns, a class of closely related genetic elements, at the Ohio State University and at the University of Texas – Austin as a graduate student in Dr. Alan M. Lambowitz’s laboratory.  

• Molecular mechanism of DGR mutagenic homing.
• Biological functions of DGRs in bacteria and phages.
• Protein and phage engineering for diverse applications.
• Bacterial pathogenesis and disease therapy.