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Long Cai is a Professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He earned his B.A. from Harvard University in 2001 and completed his Ph.D. in 2006. Prior to his current position, he held various roles including Assistant Professor from 2010 to 2017, Research Professor in 2017-2018, and Visiting Associate in the 2017-2018 academic year. Professor Cai's research focuses on spatial genomics, a field he has pioneered by developing innovative tools such as seqFISH, which allows for the detection of over 10,000 genes with single-molecule resolution in tissues. His collaborative work with Michael Elowitz's lab has led to the development of MEMOIR, a transformative tool that records molecular events in the genomes of cells. His research seeks to uncover unexpected dynamics in stem cell biology and to explore questions in developmental biology and neuroscience, aiming to generate a spatial atlas of organisms at single-cell resolution. Professor Cai's contributions provide critical insights into the spatial organization of genes within tissues, offering powerful tools for identifying unknown factors in biological research.
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