邱澗庚 Jian-geng Chiou
Principal Investigator.
A self-proclaimed biologist when I need an excuse for being bad at physics. A self-proclaimed physicist when I honestly can’t remember that many genes.
I went to Duke University to pursue my PhD and origianlly my interest in evolution and development (evo-devo). Less than a year later, I ditched my original interest and studies how a budding yeast decide how many buds to make. That question accidentally became a physics problem of how polarity proteins autonomously pattern in the yeast cell. Before I realized, I was attending more physics meetings than biology ones. After graduation, I went to do a postdoc in UCSD. Having the advantage of (moderately) knowing both biology and physics, I published barely enough to start my own lab in the Institute of Plant and Molecular Biology (IPMB) in Academia Sinica, Taiwan. I now plan to answer fundamentally evo-devos question using biophysics approaches.
By the way my pronouns would technically be she/her, but both female and male pronouns sound like "ta" in Mandarin so my cognitive system wasn't socialized to care!
