{"id":4661,"date":"2022-05-07T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/usc-stem-cell-alumni-litao-tao-and-haoze-vincent-yu-bring-their-a-game-to-new-positions-in-academia-and-industry\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T09:09:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:09:12","slug":"usc-stem-cell-alumni-litao-tao-and-haoze-vincent-yu-bring-their-a-game-to-new-positions-in-academia-and-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/usc-stem-cell-alumni-litao-tao-and-haoze-vincent-yu-bring-their-a-game-to-new-positions-in-academia-and-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Stem Cell alumni Litao Tao and Haoze (Vincent) Yu bring their A game to new positions in academia and industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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USC Stem Cell alumni Litao Tao and Haoze (Vincent) Yu bring their A game to new positions in academia and industry<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n Cristy Lytal<\/span>\n \n May 07, 2022<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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Scientists\u00a0Litao Tao<\/a>\u00a0and Haoze (Vincent) Yu were colleagues and team players for many years both inside and outside of\u00a0Neil Segil\u2019s lab\u00a0at the Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC. In the lab, they succeeded in making new discoveries about the development of the sensory cells of the inner ear. Meanwhile, on the basketball court, they led their team to victory on many occasions, and also challenged each other during spirited one-on-one matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we played one-on-one basketball, I was physically stronger,\u201d said Yu, who graduated with his\u00a0PhD in development, stem cells, and regenerative medicine from USC<\/a>. \u201cBut Litao had the better skillset. Together, we made a great team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur teamwork also carried over into the research lab,\u201d said Tao, who earned his PhD in genetics, molecular, and cellular biology and completed his postdoctoral training at USC.<\/p>\n

Tao grew up in the city of Chongqing in southwest China, and earned his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in biology at\u00a0Tsinghua University<\/a>\u00a0in Beijing. While pursuing his PhD at USC, Tao joined the Segil Lab to study the inner ear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe inner ear is like an art piece,\u201d said Tao. \u201cThere are multiple cell types, and the sensory cells and the supporting cells interdigitate each other. So I was very interested in how this beautiful organ develops that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

While completing his PhD dissertation, Tao began learning more about computational analysis and bioinformatics. He then decided to continue working in the Segil Lab and dedicate his postdoctoral training to next-generation genome sequencing, a new technology for analyzing massive amounts of genetic material to identify variations associated with hearing loss and other diseases.<\/p>\n

Tao thrived under the guidance of Segil, who was recently awarded a\u00a0USC Mentoring Award<\/a>\u00a0for fostering an engaging, supportive and inclusive academic environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeil always encourages his students and postdocs to try new ideas,\u201d said Tao. \u201cIf you have a new idea, no matter how baseless it is, you can always talk to him. He will think through it with you, talk about it, and say what the pitfalls and the outcomes might be. And the way he manages the lab, he likes people to be more self-motivated and doesn\u2019t push people for results. So that\u2019s probably the reason why everyone in the Segil Lab is nice, because they don\u2019t feel pressure from him, so they relax and enjoy the research.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Throughout his years in the Segil Lab, Tao enjoyed one particularly productive way to relax while thinking through complex scientific problems: going fishing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in LA, I went fishing almost every weekend,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d cast the baits out, and then I\u2019d sit there. While I was watching for the signals, I could think about work in a low-pressure way. So I\u2019d think of a lot of experiments, or figure out what a problem was. Sometimes you have to jump out of the regular environment, and then you can get new ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Segil also introduced Tao to Yu, who became a close collaborator and friend. Yu also began his scientific career in China, where he grew up in the northern coastal city of Qingdao. His parents ran a container shipping company, and encouraged Yu to become the first member of their family to earn a college degree.<\/p>\n

Yu entered Qingdao\u2019s\u00a0Ocean University of China<\/a>\u00a0as an ecology major. After working in a lab that studied cornea transplants, Yu switched to biology for both his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees. He began deriving stem cells from the cornea, and realized that he wanted to continue pursuing biomedical research.<\/p>\n

Yu was accepted into the PhD program at USC and joined the Segil Lab, where he learned how the inner ear forms during embryonic development.<\/p>\n

Yu also learned a few life lessons along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeil didn\u2019t only teach me about the things that we were working on,\u201d said Yu. \u201cHe has such great experience as a person. In the early years, he worked in factories, making travel trailers in Salt Lake City. In high school, he traveled to Newfoundland. He tells me a lot of stories about his experience and his friends\u2019 experience. It\u2019s not just academic things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Tao, Yu was struck by how Segil encouraged him to tap into his own motivation and independence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked Neil if I could take a break from the lab for a week to go on a hiking trip,\u201d said Yu. \u201cHe told me that I\u2019m responsible for my own life, and that I should pursue my own interests and do what I want to do. That\u2019s an attitude I didn\u2019t have growing up in China. But Neil made me realize that from now on, I should be responsible for my own time, my career, and my life. So I went on that trip.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From right, Haoze (Vincent) Yu hiking with fellow Segil Lab member Juan Llamas (Photo courtesy of Haoze (Vincent) Yu)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yu completed 75 miles of the John Muir Trail stretching from Mammoth Mountain to Yosemite National Park, and summited the tallest mountain in the continental U.S., Mount Whitney.<\/p>\n

Yu and Tao also followed Segil\u2019s advice about pursuing their passions in the scientific realm, and served as co-first authors on two studies published in 2021.\u00a0The first, which appeared in the\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS)<\/em><\/a>, described similarities in the development of two types of sensory cells: the ones that receive sound vibrations in the inner ear, and the ones that sense light touch at the surface of the skin.\u00a0The second, featured in\u00a0Developmental Cell<\/em><\/a>, identified a natural barrier to the regeneration of the sensory cells in the inner ear.<\/p>\n

Yu also collaborated with scientists from other laboratories in the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Working with postdoc\u00a0Katie Galloway<\/a>\u00a0from the laboratory of\u00a0Justin Ichida<\/a>, Yu explored gene regulation in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, with\u00a0support from a Doerr Stem Cell Challenge Grant<\/a>. In 2021, Yu and postdoc Pengfei Xu from the laboratory of\u00a0Gage Crump<\/a>\u00a0co-authored\u00a0an\u00a0eLife<\/em>\u00a0study\u00a0about craniofacial development in zebrafish.<\/p>\n

Now, Yu and Tao are building on these successes during the next stages of their careers.<\/p>\n

After earning his PhD at USC in 2020, Yu completed postdoctoral training in the\u00a0laboratory of Xin Sun<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0University of California, San Diego<\/a>, where he used computational and bioinformatics approaches to understand lung development in pre-term infants. He is now applying similar approaches to developing stem cell-derived immunotherapies for blood cancers and solid tumors as a scientist at\u00a0Fate Therapeutics<\/a>\u00a0in San Diego.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Tao left the Segil Lab to accept a tenure track assistant professor position at\u00a0Creighton University<\/a>, studying the biology of the inner ear with a goal of developing new treatments for hearing loss.<\/p>\n

However, the two will remain Segil Lab alumni for life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still projects going on as a collaboration between my new lab and Neil\u2019s lab, so we talk a lot,\u201d said Tao. \u201cActually, we have a group chat channel with everyone in the Segil Lab. So when someone\u2019s birthday is coming, we say happy birthday to each other. Last week, when I caught a big fish, I sent a picture to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yu added: \u201cWorking in the Segil Lab is like a family. He\u2019s like a parent to me. 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