Research Interests
[Undergraduate and Graduate students in biology, data science, computer science, and chemistry who are highly motivated in research and publication are welcome to join the Cao group.]
The Cao group studies these areas:
Infectious disease
- AI-based therapeutic target identification in microbial pathogens
- Drug discovery and repurposing targeting emerging pathogens
Cancer research
- Brain cancer: heterogeneity and mechanism using multi single-cell omics
- Interpretable machine learning methods for cancer single-cell multiomics
- Brain tumor treatment: identification of therapeutic targets and drugs
Systems biology and bioinformatics
- Fundamental systems biology: genome-scale metabolic network-based integration of multi-omics
- Applications of systems biology in cancer and bioengineering
- Systems mechanisms of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms
- Systems biology evolution of bacterial extremophiles under global warming