Yu-Chiun Wang


Yu-Chiun Wang completed his B.Sc. (1996) and M.S. (1998) at the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, and received his doctorate in 2006 from the University of Chicago, U.S.A. under the supervision of Dr. Edwin Ferguson for his work on the regulation of BMP signaling during dorsal-ventral patterning in the Drosophila for which he was awarded the 2007 Larry Sandler Memorial Award for best dissertation of Drosophila research. In 2007, he moved to Princeton University to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Eric Wieschaus with the support of a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation for his work on understanding the mechanisms of the formation of the cephalic furrow and dorsal transverse folds during Drosophila gastrulation. He was appointed Team Leader of the Laboratory for Epithelial Morphogenesis at the CDB in October 2013.