Jiajie Tao
Fish nutrition researcher at Shanghai Ocean University who studies why carnivorous farmed fish such as largemouth bass handle dietary carbohydrate poorly and how this links to mTOR signalling in the liver
Research Centre of Environmental Ecology and Fish Nutrition, Shanghai Ocean University (affiliation on PubMed papers from 2023 to 2026)
Jiajie Tao is the first author of TAO2026, a study in largemouth bass, a meat-eating fish that is farmed widely in China. Fish feed is cheaper when it contains more starch, but carnivorous fish cope badly with it: their livers fill up with glycogen, the stored form of sugar, much like animals with glucose intolerance. The study asked why. It found that in the bass liver the insulin-responsive mTOR/SREBP1 pathway, which normally turns extra sugar into fat, works poorly. When this route is impaired, more of the sugar ends up stored as glycogen. The work is in fish, so it tells us about how mTOR helps decide where sugar goes in the liver, not directly about people.
PubMed lists Tao at Shanghai Ocean University's Research Centre on Environmental Ecology and Fish Nutrition on about a dozen papers since 2023, most of them on carbohydrate use in largemouth bass, usually with Songlin Li as senior author. An earlier first-author paper (2023) showed that adding cultures of the gut bacterium Clostridium butyricum to a high-starch diet reduced glycogen build-up in the bass liver and raised insulin-signalling and glycolysis genes.
No official profile was found, so training and position are given only from the publication record.
Milestones in the Atlas
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| Year | Evidence | Study |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | A | Impaired mTOR/SREBP1-Mediated Lipogenesis as a Mechanism of Hepatic Glycogen Accumulation in a Carnivorous Fish Model, Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) TAO2026 First author: showed in largemouth bass that weak insulin-driven mTOR/SREBP1 fat synthesis in the liver goes with glycogen overload on high-carbohydrate feed. |
Co-authors in the Atlas 4
People with a profile here who share at least one study with Jiajie Tao.
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- Jiaxiong He Contributing co-author in Songlin Li's aquaculture-nutrition team studying mTOR/SREBP1-driven lipogenesis in fish.
- Sen Zhang Contributed to a study showing that largemouth bass have a weak insulin/mTOR/SREBP1 fat-making pathway, so excess dietary carbohydrate is stored as liver glycogen rather than fat
- Shiwen Chen Aquaculture physiologist studying why the largemouth bass, a carnivorous fish, tolerates dietary carbohydrate so poorly
- Songlin Li Fish nutrition scientist at Shanghai Ocean University who leads research on how largemouth bass and other farmed fish use carbohydrate and other nutrients in their feed
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