Brief Biography

Gary Mo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine, and affiliated with the Richard & Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering, at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Gary earned his PhD from the University of Toronto in Canada under the guidance of Christopher Yip in the Department of Chemical Engineering, then completed postdoc training in Jin Zhang's laboratory in the Department of Pharmacology at UC San Diego in the United States. Gary Mo is an Allen Distinguished Investigator, a Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group advised program of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

Gary's work revolves around the dynamics that define living cells, in particular membrane topology and post-translational protein changes on the time-scale of seconds to hours. This interest has motivated him to develop methodologies based on super-resolution, fluorescent biosensing, molecular assembly, and genetic encoding, all to better understand single cells through direct visualization. Since these dynamics underpin the signaling cascades essential to the programming of each single cell, seeing them in action is the first step in unlocking their true potential.