该实验室长期研究蛋白质在细胞核质间转运和定位在组织发育和肿瘤发生中的生物学功能，并且对细胞中与蛋白质调节性降解相关的蛋白质复合体-26S proteosome形成与肿瘤发生间的关系感兴趣。现在该实验室招收二名新近毕业的（二年内）博士后，要求专业背景是生物化学，细胞生物学，发育生物学或者病理学。需要至少两封推荐信, 其中一封必须来自其博士生导师，待遇面谈。简历通过taotao@xmu.edu.cn 寄给陶涛教授。

以下是实验室部分研究基础（2006-2008）：

Quan, Y., Ji, ZL., Wang, X., Tartakoff, AM and Tao, T*. (2008). Evolutionary and Transcriptional Analysis of Karyopherin β Superfamily Proteins.  Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. published on March 18, 2008, 10.1074/mcp.M700511-MCP200

Chen, C., Chen, S., Huang, C., Liang, J., Lin, W., Ke, G., Zhang, H., Wang, B., Huang, J., Han, Z., Ma, L., Huo, K., Yang, X., Yang, P., He, F. and Tao, T*. (2008).  Subunit-subunit interactions in the human 26s proteasome. Proteomics, 8(3):508-520 (Cover paper, comments on this paper from Journal of Proteome Research on April issue, 2008)

Liang, J., Ke, G., You, W., Peng, Z., Lan, J., Kalesse, M.，Tartakoff, AM, Kaplan, F. and Tao, T*. （2008). Interaction between importin 13 and myopodin suggests a nuclear import pathway for myopodin. Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, 307(1-2):93-100

Wang, Y., Liang, L., Han, B., Quan, Y., Wang, X., Tao, T. and Ji, ZL. (2006). GEPS:The Gene _Expression Pattern Scanner. Nucleic Acids Research. 34, W492-W497

Tao, T., Lan, J., Lukacs, GL., Hache, R. and Kaplan, F. (2006). Importin13 regulates nuclear import of the glucocorticoid receptor in airway epithelial cells. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 35, 668-680.