Group Leader I of Single Molecule

Email:diaojj@gmail.com

Tel:029-83395304
 
Employment

Oct/2012– Group Leader I

FILIS, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Jan/2011– Postdoctoral Research Associate

Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, USA

Education

Aug/2005–Dec/2010 Ph.D. in Physics

University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

Jun/2002–Jul/2005 M.A. in Physics

George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

Sep/1997–Jun/2001 B.S. in Applied Physics

Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Honors

2010 L.S. Edelheit Family Fellowship

2008 Colgate-Palmolive Graduate Award

2007 Chinese Government Award for outstanding self-financed student abroad

2005 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize

2003–2005 GW Fellowship

2002–2003 Bell Atlantic Fellowship

Research Interests

Biophysics   •Nanotechnology

• Single-molecule biophysics

• Self-assembly of nanoparticles

Representative Publications:

Biophysics

J. Diao, Y. Ishitsuka, H.-K. Lee, C. Joo, Z. Su, S. Syed, Y.-K. Shin, T.-Y. Yoon, and T. Ha, A single vesicle-vesicle fusion assay for in vitro studies of SNAREs and accessory proteins. Nat. Protoc. 7, 921 (2012).

M. Kyoung, A. Srivastava, Y. Zhang, J. Diao, M. Vrljic, P. Grob, E. Nogales, S. Chu, and A.T. Brunger, In vitro system capable of differentiating fast Ca2+-triggered content mixing from lipid exchange for mechanistic studies of neurotransmitter release. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, E304 (2011).

J. Diao*, Z. Su*, Y. Ishitsuka*, B. Lu, K.S. Lee, Y. Lai, Y.-K. Shin, and T. Ha, A single vesicle content-mixing assay for SNARE-mediated membrane fusion. Nat. Commun. 1, 54 (2010).

T.-Y. Yoon*, X. Lu*, J. Diao*, S.-M. Lee, T. Ha, and Y.-K. Shin, Complexin and Ca2+ stimulate SNARE-mediated membrane fusion. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 15, 707 (2008).

Nanotechnology

J.J. Diao and Q. Cao, Gold nanoparticle wire and integrated wire for electronic detection of chemical and biological molecules. AIP Advances 1, 012115 (2011).

J.J. Diao and H. Chen, Near infrared surface plasmon resonance of gold tabular nanostructures in the HAuCl4-Na2S reaction. J. Chem. Phys. 124, 116103 (2006).

J.J. Diao, J. Sun, J.B. Hutchison, and M.E. Reeves, Self-assembled nanoparticle wires by discontinuous vertical colloidal deposition. Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 103113 (2005).

J.J. Diao, J.B. Hutchison, G. Luo, and M.E. Reeves, Theoretical analysis of vertical colloidal deposition. J. Chem. Phys. 122, 184710 (2005).

J.J. Diao, S. Huang, and M.E. Reeves, Cavity resonators of metal-coated dielectric nanorods. J. Chem. Phys. 122, 146101 (2005).
J.J. Diao, F.S. Qiu, G.D. Chen, and M.E. Reeves, Surface vertical deposition for gold nanoparticle film. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 36, L25 (2003).

J.J. Diao and G.D. Chen, Electromagnetic cavity resonant absorption of the gold nanoshell. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 34, L79 (2001).