Chiou-Fen Chuang, PhD
Appointment
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Email
Chiou-Fen.Chuang@cchmc.org
Phone
513-803-0046
Credentials
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of California, San Francisco and Rockefeller University, New York with Dr. Cori Bargmann. Molecular mechanisms of neuronal diversification and circuit development in Caenorhabditis elegans, 2001-2006.
PhD: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA with Dr. Elliot Meyerowitz. Molecular genetics of floral patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana, 1994-2000.
Awards and Honors
- Whitehall Foundation Research Grant Award, 2008-present
- Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2004
Research
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We are interested in understanding how the developing nervous system generates a tremendous diversity of cell types, a fundamental process allowing neurons to form complex circuits and networks. Molecular, genetic, cell biological, and electrophysiological approaches are used to address this question in the small roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, which has a very simple nervous system containing only 302 neurons with reproducible functions and synaptic connections.
Publications, Most Recent
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. (Preview: Gap Junctions Provide New Links in Left-Right Patterning. Cell 2007;129:645-647.)
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.
Presentations, Most Recent
2008
Minisymposium of C. elegans Developmental Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
C. elegans Neuroscience Meeting, Wisconsin, Madison
2006
CSHL Axon Guidance, Synaptogenesis & Neural Plasticity Meeting, New York
C. elegans Neuroscience Meeting, Wisconsin, Madison (new and notable talk)
Center for Research in Neuroscience, Montreal, Canada
Harvard Medical School Department of Neurobiology, Boston
University of Nevada Biology Department, Reno
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation Division of Developmental Biology
Concordia University Biology Department, Montreal, Canada
2005
Hunter College Biology Department, New York
Carnegie Institution Department of Embryology, Baltimore, Maryland
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany
FASEB: American Association of Anatomists Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology, San Diego, California
University of Rochester Biology Department, New York
Special Interests
Cell-cell interactions and signaling events that specify neuronal diversity and assemble functional circuits.
Work in the Lab
View details about our available positions:
- Postdoctoral Position
- Laboratory Aide
- Graduate Students
