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Mo Li 

Assistant Professor, Bioscience

Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division


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Affiliations

Education Profile

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​Postdoctoral Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, 2009​
  • ​Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2007
  • B.Sc., Peking (Beijing) University, 2001​

Research Interests

​Professor Li‘s research attempts to understand the molecular basis of the regenerative mechanisms that maintain the proper form and function of the human body. His research programs build on a multidisciplinary platform that integrates stem cell models with genome engineering, functional genomics, bioengineering and chemical screening to gain a holistic understanding of regeneration in its broadest sense, while keeping a commitment to fulfilling the translational promise of stem cell research.

Selected Publications

  • C Bi, G Mandujano, Y Tian, S Hala, J Xu, S Mfarrej, Y Tian, C. Rodriguez Esteban, E Nunex Delicado, F Alofi, A Khogeer, A Hashem, N Almontashiri, A Pain, JC Izpisua Belmonte, M Li, Simultaneous Detection and Mutation Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and co-infections of multiple respiratory viruses by Rapid field-deployable sequencing medRxiv, June 14, 2020, Published March 31, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2021.03.015, Med
  • G Mandujano, R Salunke, S Mfarrej, A Rachmadi, S Hala, J Xu, F Alofi, A Khogeer, A Hashem, N Almontashiri, A Alsomali, S Hamdan, P Hong, A Pain, M Li, A Robust, Safe and Scalable Magnetic Nanoparticle Workflow for RNA Extraction of Pathogens from Clinical and Environmental Samples, medRxiv, June 29, 2020, published Feb 22, 2021, doi: 10.1002/gch2.202000068, Global Challenges
  • Bi, C., Wang, L., Yuan, B., Zhou X. Li, Y., Wang, S., Pang, Y., Gao X., Huang Y., Li, M. Long-read individual-molecule sequencing reveals CRISPR-induced genetic heterogeneity in human ESCs. Genome Biol 21, 213 (2020). https://rdcu.be/b6q2K
  • G Mandujano and M Li, MARVICS: A Robust and Safe Magnetic Nanoparticle based RNA Extraction Method Compatible with Phenol-chloroform Inactivated Infectious Samples, Protocols.io, July 15, 2020, dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bik4kcyw
  • Li M* and Izpisua Belmonte JC*. Organoids - Preclinical Models of Human Disease. New England Journal of Medicine. Feb 7, 2019. *co-corresponding author
  • Li Y, Han R, Bi C, Li M, Wang S, Gao X, DeepSimulator: a deep simulator for Nanopore sequencing, Bioinformatics, April 2, 2018, in press.    
  • Li M* and Izpisua Belmonte JC*. Deconstruct pluripotency gene regulatory network. Nature Cell Biology. VOL 20, APRIL 2018, 382–392.http://rdcu.be/J3Kw, Co-corresponding author
  • Alsaiari SK, Patil S,  Alyami M, Alamoudi KO, Aleisa FA, Merzaban JS,  Li M, and Khashab NM, Endosomal Escape and Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing Machinery Enabled by Nanoscale Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018 140 (1), pp 143–146 epub December 22, 2017
  • Li Z, Araoka T, Wu J, Liao HK, Li M, Lazo M, Zhou B, Sui Y, Wu MZ, Tamura I, Xia Y, Beyret E, Matsusaka T, Pastan I, Rodriguez Esteban C, Guillen I, Guillen P, Campistol JM, Izpisua Belmonte JC. 3D Culture Supports Long-Term Expansion of Mouse and Human Nephrogenic Progenitors. Cell Stem Cell 2016 Oct 6;19(4):516-529 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590916302119)
  • Takahashi Y, Wu J, Suzuki K, Martinez-Redondo P, Li M, Liao HK, Wu MZ, Hernandez-Benitez R, Hishida T, Shokhirev MN, Rodriguez Esteban C, Sancho-Martinez I, and Izpisua Belmonte JC. Integration of CpG-free DNA induces de novo methylation of CpG islands in pluripotent stem cells. Science 356, 503–508 (2017) 5 May 2017  (link: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6337/503.long)​
  • Li M, Borrelli E, Magistretti PM, Izpisua Belmonte JC, Sassone-Corsi P & Orlando, V, Gathering by the Red Sea highlights links between environment and epigenetics. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, VOLUME 24 NUMBER 6 JUNE 2017.Corresponding author. (Link: http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v24/n6/full/nsmb.3422.html) 
  • Li M and Izpisua Belmonte JC. Ground rules of the pluripotency gene regulatory network. Nature Reviews Genetics. Published online 03 January 2017 
  • Li M and Izpisua Belmonte JC. Looking to the future following ten years of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies. Nature Protocols​. 11, 1579-1585 (2016).
  • Ocampo A, Reddy P, Martinez-Redondo P, Platero-Luengo A, Hatanaka F, Hishida T, Li M, Lam D, Kurita M, Beyret E, Araoka T, Vazquez-Ferrer E, Donoso D, Roman JL, Xu J, Rodriguez Esteban D, Nunez G, Nunez Delicado E, Campistol JM, Guillen E, Guillen P, and Izpisua Belmonte JC. In Vivo Amelioration of Age-Associated Hallmarks by Partial Reprogramming. Cell 2016 Dec 15, 167, 1719-1733
  • Suzuki K, Tsunekawa Y, Hernandez-Benitez R, Wu J, Zhu J, Kim E, Hatanaka F, Yamamoto M, Araoka T, Li Z, Kurita M, Hishida T, Li M, Aizawa E, Chen S, Goebl A, Soligalla RD, Qu J, Jiang T, Skowronska-Krawczyk D, Rodríguez Esteban C, Lajara J, Nuñez E, Guillen P, Campistol J, Matsuzaki F, Liu GH, Magistretti P, Zhang K, Callaway E, Zhang K, Izpisua Belmonte JC. In vivo genome editing via CRISPR-Cas9 mediated homology-independent targeted integration Nature 540, 144–149 (01 December 2016)
  • Li M, K. Suzuki, J. Qu, P. Saini, I. Dubova, F. Yi, J. Lee, I. Sancho-Martinez, G. Liu and JC Izpisua Belmonte (2011). Efficient correction of hemoglobinopathy-causing mutations by homologous recombination in integration-free patient iPSCs. Cell Research 21, 1740-1744 (December 2011)
  • Li M*, Suzuki K*, Yu C*, Qu J*, Yao X, Yuan T, Goebl A, Tang S, Ren R, Aizawa E, Zhang F, Xu X, Soligalla RD, Chen F, Kim J, Kim NY, Liao HK, Benner C, Esteban CR, Jin Y, Liu GH, Li Y, Izpisua Belmonte JC.Targeted gene correction minimally impacts whole-genome mutational load in human-disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cell clones. Cell Stem Cell. 2014 Jul 3;15(1):31-6. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2014.06.016.
  • Li M*, Liu GH*, Suzuki K*, Qu J*, Montserrat N, Tarantino C, Gu Y, Yi F, Xu X, Zhang W, et al. Modelling Fanconi anemia pathogenesis and therapeutics using integration-free patient-derived iPSCs. Nat Commun. 2014 Jul 7;5:4330. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5330. PubMed PMID: 24999918.
  • Li M*, Giorgetti A*, Marchetto MC *, Yu D, Fazzina R, Mu Y, Adamo A, Paramonov I, Cardoso JC, Monasterio MB, Bardy C, Cassiani-Ingoni R, Liu GH, Gage FH and Izpisua- Belmonte JC (2012) Cord Blood-derived neuronal cells by ectopic expression of Sox2 and c-Myc. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jul 18. [Epub ahead of print]

* Equal contribution​