Education:

• B.S., Applied Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun , China (2000)
• M.S. Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, China (2003)
• Ph.D., Biological Chemistry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (2008)

• Explore GVII phospholipase A2 structure, dynamics and interaction by using H/D exchange mass spectrometry

• Cao J, Xu H, Zhao H, Gong W, Dunaway-Mariano D., The Mechanisms of Human Hotdog-fold Thioesterase 2 (hTHEM2) Substrate Recognition and Catalysis Illuminated by a Structure and Function Based Analysis, Biochemistry , Epub ahead of print (2009) PMID: 19170545
• Wu R, Cao J, Lu X, Reger AS, Gulick AM, Dunaway-Mariano D., Mechanism of 4-chlorobenzoate:coenzyme a ligase catalysis, Biochemistry, 2008, 47:8026-39 PMID: 18620421
• Zhuang Z, Song F, Zhao H, Li L, Cao J, Eisenstein E, Herzberg O, Dunaway-Mariano D., Divergence of function in the hot dog fold enzyme superfamily: the bacterial thioesterase YciA, Biochemistry. 2008,47:2789-96 PMID: 18247525
• Wu R, Reger AS, Cao J, Gulick AM, Dunaway-Mariano D., Rational redesign of the 4-chlorobenzoate binding site of 4-chlorobenzoate: coenzyme a ligase for expanded substrate range, Biochemistry, 2007 46:14487-99 PMID: 18027984