A self-proclaimed biologist when I need an excuse for being bad at physics. A self-proclaimed physicist when I honestly can’t remember that many genes.
I went to Duke University to pursue my PhD and origianlly my interest in evolution and development (evo-devo). Less than a year later, I ditched my original interest and studies how a budding yeast bud. That question accidentally became a physics problem of how certain proteins autonomously pattern in the yeast cell. Before I realized, I was attending more physics meetings than biology ones. After graduation, I went to do a postdoc in UCSD. Having the advantage of (moderately) knowing both biology and physics, I published barely enough to start my own lab in the Institute of Plant and Molecular Biology (IPMB) in Academia Sinica, Taiwan. I now plan to answer fundamentally evo-devos question using biophysics approaches.

Pattern formation is a fascinating process critical in the development of multicellular organisms. Although the underlying molecular pathways for pattern formation may be completely different between distinct phylogenetic clades, they often follow similar mathematical principles. Since mathematical principles often transcend taxonomic boundaries, why can't patterning also occur in 'unicellular' microbes? We use interdisciplinary approaches, including live cell microscopy and mathematical modeling to studies the principles of pattern formation that play key roles in microbial developmental processes.