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Chiou-Fen Chuang, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-803-0046

Email: Chiou-Fen.Chuang@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Developmental mechanisms that establish stochastic left-right neuronal asymmetries.

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Biography

2007-present Head, Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Lateralization, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Research Foundation; Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati
Research interest: Stochastic left-right asymmetry of the nervous system in C. elegans

2001-2006 Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Cornelia I. Bargmann at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Universityof California, San Francisco (2001-2004) and the Rockefeller University (2004-2006)
Project: Molecular mechanisms of neuronal diversification and neural circuit development in C. elegans

1994-2000 Ph.D. research with Dr. Elliot M. Meyerowitz at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology

Ph.D. thesis: Molecular genetics of floral patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana

Education and Training

Postdoctoral Fellow: University of California, San Francisco and Rockefeller University, New York, 2001-2006.

PhD: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1994-2000.

Publications

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Chiu H, Alqadah A, Chuang C-F, Chang, C. C. elegans as a genetic model to identify novel cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying nervous system regeneration. Cell Adhesion & Migration; 5: 387-394. 2011.

Chang C, Hsieh Y-W, Lesch BJ, Bargmann CI, Chuang C-F. Microtubule-based localization of a synaptic calcium signaling complex is required for left-right neuronal asymmetry in C. elegans. Development. 138: 3509-3518. 2011.

Taylor R*, Hsieh Y-W*, Gamse J, Chuang C-F. Making a difference together: reciprocal interactions in C.elegans and zebrafish asymmetric neural development. Development. 2010;137:681-91. * Authors contributed equally.

Gabel CV, Antonie F, Chuang C-F, Samuel AD, Chang C. Distinct cellular and molecular mechanisms mediate initial axon development and adult-stage axon regeneration in C. elegans. Development. 2008;135:1129-36.

Chuang C-F, VanHoven MK, Fetter RD, Verselis VK, Bargmann CI. An innexin-dependent cell network establishes left-right neuronal asymmetry in C. elegans. Cell. 2007;129:787-99.

Chuang C-F, Bargmann CI. A Toll-interleukin 1 repeat protein at the synapse specifies asymmetric odorant receptor expression via ASK1 MAPKKK signaling. Genes & Dev. 2005;19:270-81.

Chuang C-F, Meyerowitz EM. Specific and heritable genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2000;97:4985-90.

Chuang C-F, Running MP, Williams RW, Meyerowitz EM. The PERIANTHIA gene encodes a bZIP protein involved in the determination of floral organ number in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genes & Dev. 1999;13:334-44.