Principle Investigator

  • Hui-Chun Cheng, Assistant Professor

    鄭惠春 助理教授

    德州大學西南醫學中心　生物化學博士
    加州大學舊金山分校　博士後研究員

    Education

    DegreeInstitution
    Ph.D.UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
    Department of Biochemistry
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute    		2011
    M.S.National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology    		2004
    B.S.National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Department of Life Sciences    		2002

    Research Experiences

    03/2011-06/2014: American Heart Association postdoctoral fellow at UCSF
    Advisor: Dr. Ronald D. Vale
    Chair, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
    Investigator, HHMI
    UCSF, USA
    Project:Structure and mechanism of cytoplasmic dynein
    08/2004-02/2011: Ph.D. student at UT Southwestern Medical Center
    Advisor:Dr. Michael K. Rosen
    Chair, Department of Biophysics
    Investigator, HHMI
    UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
    Thesis:Regulation of WASP in Actin Signaling: from Angstroms to Microns
    08/2002-06/2004: Master degree student at National Tsing Hua University
    Advisor:Dr. Yuh-Ju Sun
    Chair, Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology
    National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Thesis:Structural Basis of the Lipid Binding in Rice Nonspecific Lipid Transfer Protein-1

    Awards/Honors/Felloships

    2011Research Award, the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, CA
    2010Special Dean’s Discretionary Award, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
    2010Research Presentation Award, the 19th Molecular Biophysics Symposium, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
    2009Graduate Student Poster Competition Award, the 23rd Symposium of the Protein Society, Boston, MA
    2008Graduate Student Poster Competition Award, the 17th Molecular Biophysics Symposium, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
    2008Chilton Foundation Fellowship Award, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
    2004Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    2002Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    2001Chun-Tsung Scholarship, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

    Technical Training

    2010Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course on X-ray Methods in Structural Biology, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
    2008The Second q-bio Summer School on Cellular Information Processing, Los Alamos, NM
    2007The Short Course on Cellular and Molecular Fluorescence, Fort Worth, TX