Kuo-ping Chiu

Biography

 Kuo-Ping Chiu is currently an Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica with joint appointments with National Taiwan University and National Central University. He got his PhD in Microbiology from UC Davis in 1991 and had postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School on Neurosciences during 1993 - 1996. Kuo-Ping’s research career is tightly associated with biotechnologies. His Ph.D. research focused on intracellular amplification of mouse mammary tumor proviral DNA using in situ polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to identify the infected cells, while his postdoctoral training was related to multiple colorimetric labeling of acetylcholine receptor subunit transcripts to study their coordinated expression pattern. These trainings have critical influence upon his academic research career and industrial experience. His industrial experience started with a job at Bio-Rad Laboratories where he developed protocols and kits for antimicrobial susceptibility testing using flow cytometry (5/1996-4/1998). Later he switched from wetlab to Bioinformatics and worked for Genome Institute of Singapore on developing Paired-End ditag technology and methods for sequence data analysis (8/2002 - 8/2008). He moved back to Taiwan in August of 2008 to setup a laboratory at Academia Sinica to develop DNA sequencing-related biotechnologies and study gene expression and regulation/dysregulation in normal and cancer cells. He is also teaching sequencing technologies, sequence data analysis and pathway analysis in a number of national universities including National Taiwan University (NTU), National Central University (NCU), and National Yang-Ming University (NYMU), etc. He is holding two US patents related to the molecular construction and analysis of paired-end ditag libraries.

Research Interest

 Biotechnology