Welcome to the Liao Research Lab!

Chen Liao is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, GEISEL School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.

He completed his B.S. in Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010. He developed a strong interest in synthetic biology and earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering under the mentorship of Dr. Ting Lu at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2018, Chen joined the lab of Dr. Joao Xavier at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a postdoc, where he was co-mentored by Dr. Tobias Hohl.

The Liao Lab is a hybrid research group that combines computational modeling, experimental microbiology, and clinical data analysis. Our work focuses on Host-Microbiome-Pathegen interactions and metabolic mechanisms that mediate these complex interactions. Our long-term goals include (1) elucidating the metabolic mechanisms linking intestinal microbiota to human health, and (2) developing computational platforms that enable the rational design of microbiome-based immunotherapies.