左涛(研究员,博士生导师)

   左涛,国家高层次青年人才,中山大学胃肠病学研究所副所长,中山大学人体微生态与慢病教育部重点实验室常务副主任,中山大学“百人计划”中青年杰出人才。研究方向:肠道微生物与人体健康。以通讯作者、第一作者发表高质量文章40余篇,其中IF>10的文章30篇,包括 Cell Host & Microbe (3)、Cell Metabolism(1)、Nature Metabolism(2)、Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology (1)、Lancet Microbe (1)、Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology (2)、Nature Reviews Microbiology (1)、Nature Reviews Bioengineering (1)、Gut (7)、Gastroenterology (4)、Microbiome (2)、Nature Communications (2)、eBioMedicine (1) 、Gut Microbes (1)、Journal of Medical Virology (1)


PI教育和工作背景
2021.01-至今 中山大学附属第六医院 研究员
2018.11-2020.12 香港中文大学 研究助理教授
2015.11-2018.11 香港中文大学 博士后
2014.08-2015.03 美国哈佛医学院 细胞生物学 联合培养博士
2010.09-2015.06 中国海洋大学 食品科学 工学博士
2006.09-2010.06 中国海洋大学 生物工程 工学学士


联系邮箱及课题组网站:
电邮:zuot@mail.sysu.edu.cn 
实验室网址:www.zuotaolab.com


代表性论文代表性项目荣誉

1.Ziyu Huang, et al, Tao Zuo*. Gut mucosal mycobiome profiling in Crohn's disease uncovers an AMP-mediated anti-inflammatory effect of Cladosporium sphaerospermum. Nature Metabolism, 2026. (最后通讯,影响因子: 27.5)
2.Weijie Wen...Tao Zuo*. Gut DNA virome enterotype dictates inflammation heterogeneity through tuning the phage-bacteria-sphingosine-intestine axis in Crohn’s disease. Cell Host & Microbe. 2026. (独立通讯,影响因子: 23.2,封面文章)
3.Yufeng Jin, Jincun Zhao*, Tao Zuo*. Potential impacts of antivirals on the virome. Cell Host & Microbe. 2026. (最后通讯,影响因子: 23.2,亮点文章)
4.Tao Zuo*. Pushing the frontier of gut microbiome health cross-kingdom and cross-organ. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2026. (独立通讯,影响因子: 57.5)
5.F Zhang, Guicheng Zhou, et al, Tao Zuo*. Dietary urbanization destabilizes host-gut microbiome homeostasis and informs future microbiome-directed precision nutrition for human health. Cell Metabolism, 2025. (最后通讯,影响因子: 37)
6.Weijie Wen, Changqing Yang, Tao Zuo*. Viewing MASLD through an integrative gut microbiome lens. Nature Metabolism, 2025. (独立通讯,影响因子: 27.5)
7.Runping Su, Weijie, et al, Tao Zuo*. Dietary whey protein protects against Crohn’s disease by orchestrating cross-kingdom interaction between the gut phageome and bacteriome. Gut, 2025. (最后通讯,影响因子: 24.6,封面文章)
8.Cao, Z., Fan, D., Sun, Y. et al, Tao Zuo*. The gut ileal mucosal virome is disturbed in patients with Crohn’s disease and exacerbates intestinal inflammation in mice. Nature Communications 15, 1638 (2024). (最后通讯,影响因子:18.1)
9.Ziyu Huang, Yunyun Liu, Anna Phillips, Fen Zhang, Tao Zuo*. Varied prevalence and asymptomatic carriage of Cryptococcus gattii in the gut of Chinese populations. Lancet Microbe. 2025. (独立通讯,影响因子:21.9)
10.Nengneng Li, et al, Tao Zuo*. Fecal phageome transplantation alleviates intermittent intestinal inflammation in IBD and the timing of transplantation matters: a preclinical, proof-of-concept study in mice. Gut, 2024. (独立通讯,影响因子:24.6)