Speaker：Prof. Liqun Luo

Introduction to Speaker

Liqun Luo is a professor of biology at Stanford University, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He grew up in Shanghai, China, and earned his bachelor's degree in molecular biology from the University of Science and Technology of China. He attended graduate school at Brandeis University under the guidance of Kalpana White, where the strong community of neuroscience researchers piqued his interest in the field. After grad school, he moved to UCSF and began a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of HHMI investigator Yuh-Nung Jan, where he initiated the study of Rho GTPases in neuronal morphogenesis in flies and mice.

Dr. Luo set up his own lab at Stanford University from 1996. By developing neurotechniques like MARCM in fly and MADM in mice, he has enabled many experiments in neuroscience and those techniques are widely used by the research community. Dr. Luo became a HHMI investigator from 2005, and was elected as a member of national academic of science in 2012.