Zhuojun Dai is a Professor in Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her B.S. from Zhejiang University. She obtained PhD degree in Chemistry from The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof. Chi Wu, where she investigated the polymer chain dynamics and interactions between the polycations and polyanions from the view of polymer physics. Then, she undertook postdoctoral training at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University in Prof Lingchong You's lab, where she learned to use synthetic biology tools to engineered bacteria for various purposes. Since September, 2018, she started her lab in Institute of Synthetic Biology at SIAT, CAS, focusing on the living fabrications or biomanufacturing by the programed cells or microbial consortia.

[1] Runtao Zhu, Jiao Zhang, Lin Wang, Yunfeng Zhang, Yang Zhao, Ying Han, Jing Sun, Xi Zhang, Ying Dou, Huaxiong Yao, Wei Yan, Xiaozhou Luo, Junbiao Dai, Zhuojun Dai.* “Engineering functional materials through bacteria-assisted living grafting”. Cell Systems [J] (2024) 15(3) 264-274

[2] Lin Wang, Xi Zhang, Chenwang Tang, Pengcheng Li, Runtao Zhu, Jing Sun, Yunfeng Zhang, Hua Cui, Jiajia Ma, Xinyu Song, Weiwen Zhang, Xiang Gao, Xiaozhou Luo, Lingchong You, Ye Chen, Zhuojun Dai*. Engineering consortia by polymeric microbial swarmbots. Nature Communications[J]. 2022, 13: 3879-, 

[3] Baizhu Chen, Wei Kang, Jing Sun, Runtao Zhu, Yue Yu, Aiguo Xia, Mei Yu, Meng Wang, Jinyu Han, Yixuan Chen, Lijun Teng, Qiong Tian, Yin Yu, Guanglin Li, Zhiyuan Liu*, Zhuojun Dai*. Programmable living assembly of materials by bacterial adhesion. Nature Chemical Biology [J]. 2022, 18(3): 289-+, 

[4] Zhuojun Dai*, Xiaoyu Yang, Feilun Wu, Lihua Wang, Kun Xiang, Pengcheng Li, Qingqing Lv, Jinhui Tang, Anders Dohlman, Lei Dai, Xiling Shen, Lingchong You*. Living fabrication of functional semi-interpenetrating polymeric materials. Nature Communications[J]. 2021, 12(1): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23812-7.

[5] Zhuojun Dai, Anna J Lee, Stefan Roberts, Tatyana A Sysoeva,Shuqiang Huang, Michael Dzuricky, Xiaoyu Yang, Xi Zhang, Zihe Liu,  Ashutosh Chilkoti, Lingchong You. Versatile biomanufacturing through stimulus-responsive cell-material feedback. Nature Chemical Biology[J]. 2019, 15(10): 1017-+, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41589-019-0357-8.

[6] Bo Wang and Zhuojun Dai* "Engineering Photosynthetic Microbial Consortia for Carbon-Negative Biosynthesis". Angewandte Chemie (2023)