Education

2009.09-2014.07， Ph.D., School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University

2005.09-2009.07， B.S., School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University

Academic Experience

2020.08-Present,  Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China；

2020.08-Present,  Investigator, Peking-Tsinghua Center For Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China；

2014.09-2020.07, Postdoc Research fellow, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Overview of Academic Research

Cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET) is a state-of-the-art technique that enables the study of protein function in their physiological cellular context, and can even provide molecular resolution via subtomogram averaging. Our research leverages this cutting-edge technology to investigate Cellular Architecture, examining how subcellular compartments contribute to the function of a cell, as well as Macromolecule Sociology, analyzing the relationships between macromolecules and organelles.

Major Honor and Awards

2021  Bayer Investigator

2020  Yi-Fang Scholar

2016  Humboldt Fellowship

2015  EMBO Long Term Fellowship

Representative Research Achievements

* co-first author, # corresponding author

1. Li, Z., Du, W., Yang, J., Lai, D.-H., Lun, Z.-R., Guo, Q.# (2023). Cryo-Electron Tomography of Toxoplasma gondii Indicates That the Conoid Fiber May Be Derived from Microtubules. Advanced Science n/a, 2206595.

2. Li, W.*, Lu, J.*, Xiao, K.*, Zhou, M.*, Li, Y., Zhang, X., Li, Z., Gu, L., Xu, X., Guo, Q.#, Xu, T.#, Ji, W.#, (2023). Integrated multimodality microscope for accurate and efficient target-guided cryo-lamellae preparation. Nature Methods 20, 268-275.

3. Jiang, W., Wagner, J., Du, W., Plitzko, J., Baumeister, W., Beck, F.#, and Guo, Q.# (2022). A transformation clustering algorithm and its application in polyribosomes structural profiling. Nucleic Acids Research 50, 9001-9011.

4. Saha, I., Yuste-Checa, P., Da Silva Padilha, M., Guo, Q., Körner, R., Holthusen, H., Trinkaus, V.A., Dudanova, I., Fernández-Busnadiego, R., Baumeister, W., Sanders, D.W., Gautam, S., Diamond, M.I., Hartl, F.U.#, Hipp, M.S.#, (2023). The AAA+ chaperone VCP disaggregates Tau fibrils and generates aggregate seeds in a cellular system. Nature Communications 14, 560.

5. Riemenschneider, H.*, Guo, Q.*, Bader, J., Frottin, F., Farny, D., Kleinberger, G., Haass, C., Mann, M., Hartl, F.U., Baumeister, W. et al. (2022) Gel-like inclusions of C-terminal fragments of TDP-43 sequester stalled proteasomes in neurons. EMBO Reports, 23, e53890

6. Trinkaus, V.A., Riera-Tur, I., Martínez-Sánchez, A., Bäuerlein, F.J.B., Guo, Q., Arzberger, T., Baumeister, W., Dudanova, I., Hipp, M.S., Hartl, F.U., et al. (2021). In situ architecture of neuronal α-Synuclein inclusions. Nature Communication. 12, 2110.

7. Yasuda, S., Tsuchiya, H., Kaiho, A., Guo, Q., Ikeuchi, K., Endo, A., Arai, N., Ohtake, F., Murata, S., Inada, T., et al. (2020). Stress- and ubiquitylation-dependent phase separation of the proteasome. Nature 578, 296–300.

8. Guo, Q.*, Bin, H.*, Cheng, J., Seefelder, M., Engler, T., Pfeifer, G., Oeckl, P., Otto, M., Moser, F., Maurer, M., Pautsch, A., Baumeister, W.#, Fernandez-Busnadiego, R.#, Kochanek, S.# (2018). The cryo-electron microscopy structure of huntingtin. Nature 555, 117–120.

8. Guo, Q., Lehmer, C., Martinez-Sanchez, A., Rudack, T., Beck, F., Hartmann, H., Hipp, M.S., Hartl, F.U., Edbauer, D.#, Baumeister, W.#, Fernandez-Busnadiego, R#. (2018) In Situ Structure of Neuronal C9orf72 Poly-GA Aggregates Reveals Proteasome Recruitment. Cell 172, 696-705.e612.