Summary
Kai Hao is a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA with a decade of research experience bridging cell biology and synthetic biology to record and decode cellular histories. His PhD uncovered local protein synthesis in motile cilia, challenging the assumption that the soma is the sole source of ciliary proteins, and he developed rapid cilia isolation and advanced live-imaging platforms. As a postdoc he created INSCRIBE, a molecular recording circuit for reconstructing single-cell signaling histories, and is applying spatially resolved lineage and signaling tracing to mouse embryogenesis. Based in Los Angeles, he combines hands-on microscopy, molecular engineering, and computational reconstruction to map dynamic signaling with single-cell resolution — an unusual blend of ultrastructural expertise and synthetic biology tool-building.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences