Zhe CAO

Biography

Education and Training

• BSc, Biological Sciences
  Nanjing Univeristy
• Ph.D., Life Science
  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Awards and Honors

• ADA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 2025 - 2028
  American Diabetes Association
• DMM Conference Travel Grants, 2024
  Disease Models & Mechanisms

Publications

• Endogenous p53 inhibitor TIRR dissociates systemic metabolic health from oncogenic activity.

  Tsaousidou E, Chrzanowski J, Drané P, Lee GY, Bahour N, Wang ZB, Deng S, Cao Z, Huang K, He Y, Kaminski M, Michalek D, Güney E, Parmar K, Fendler W, Chowdhury D, Hotamisligil GS. Cell Rep 2024 Jun 25

• A Flexible Network of Lipid Droplet Associated Proteins Support Embryonic Integrity of C. elegans.

  Cao Z, Fung CW, Mak HY. Front Cell Dev Biol 2025

• Are endoplasmic reticulum subdomains shaped by asymmetric distribution of phospholipids? Evidence from a C. elegans model system.

  Cao Z, Wang X, Huang X, Mak HY. Bioessays 2021 01

• Married at Birth: Regulation of Cellular Fat Metabolism by ER–Lipid Droplet Crosstalk.

  Cao Z, Mak HY. Contact 2025

• Dietary fatty acids promote lipid droplet diversity through seipin enrichment in an ER subdomain.

  Cao Z, Hao Y, Fung CW, Lee YY, Wang P, Li X, Xie K, Lam WJ, Qiu Y, Tang BZ, Shui G, Liu P, Qu J, Kang BH, Mak HY. Nat Commun 2019 07 01