TERUEL - Key Persons
Favorite Scientist: Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) for his power of observation. In his absence a mold had grown on a petri dish which itself is nothing unusual. However, this particular mold seemed to have killed bacteria that had been growing in the petri dish. Fleming realized that this mold had potential and discovered penicillin in 1928. Thereby he revolutionized medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic without planning it. Penicillin has saved and is still saving millions of lives each day.
Favorite Scientist: Barbara Mclintock, who first demonstrated the principles of gene regulation and transposition, and bravely and patiently weathered hostility for contradicting several central dogmas of the time. Mary Clare King, who applies her studies of genetics to human rights work, exemplifying how scientists can use their evidence-seeking approaches for the advancement of social justice.
Education: B.S., Ph.D. Biochemistry, Gyeongsang National University, Korea
Favorite Scientist: Christian Anfinsen for his work demonstrating that the primary amino acid sequence of a protein contains sufficient information to encode its 3D sequence.
Research Interests: Circadian control of adipogenic signaling networks
Education: B.S/M.S Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Favorite Scientist: François Jacob & Jacques Monod for their work on the lac operon and contributions to our current understanding of gene regulation. Their research provided a fundamental basis for molecular biology by elucidating one of the first examples of transcriptional control and feedback through gene regulatory elements-an idea that pervades biological systems
Hobbies: Cooking, travel, power naps
Education: B.S. Biochemistry, U.C. Santa Cruz
Favorite Scientist: Alfred Hershey for his famous and elegant "Blender Experiment." He was able to convince the still fragmented biology field that DNA, and not protein, was the carrier of genetic information.
Hobbies: Outside of lab I like to bike ride, camp, surf, and travel
Favorite Scientist: Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, not only because he discovered alcohol, but also he was the first person who produced acids such as sulfuric acids. He was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another. As a Persian polymath, alchemist, philosopher, and physician, Razi's medical works and ideas became famous among medieval European practitioners and greatly influenced medical education in the Latin West.
Awards: Stanford Deans Postdoctoral Fellowship; MOST Science Fellowship from the Government of Taiwan
Research Interests: Understanding the bone-fat two-way differentiation switch
Education: Ph.D. in Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan
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Hobbies: Basketball, going to the gym
Email: tinghuan@stanford.edu
Research Interests:Signaling networks involved in cell differentiation
Education: B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Marine Biology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran; M.S. in Biotechnology and Protein Science, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Favorite scientists: Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution is indeed one of the greatest scientific contributions ever made, and Gregor Johann Mendel (the father of genetics) for his fascinating work on heredity, which became the basis of the modern theory of genetics.
Hobbies: Cooking, running.