Dr. Huatao Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Missouri. Before joining MU, he was a research scientist in the Laboratory of Dr. Jeff F. Miller at UCLA, whose group discovered diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs). He also studied mobile group II introns, a class of closely related genetic elements, at the Ohio State University and at the University of Texas – Austin as a graduate student in Dr. Alan M. Lambowitz’s laboratory.