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Li-Fang (Jack) Chu

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Chu is currently an assistant professor at the University of Calgary and a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Cellular Reprogramming. He obtained his PhD from Baylor College of Medicine under Dr. Thomas Zwaka, followed by a postdoctoral training with Dr. James Thomson at the Morgridge Institute for Research. The Chu lab's research interests include identifying principles governing temporal and spatial patterning in development and disease. His recent work on developing in vitro human and porcine comparative developmental clock models aims to investigate mechanisms regulating developmental timing and disease modeling in vitro. Oscillatory (rhythmic) gene expression is key to molecular timing mechanisms that function like biological clocks (e.g., the cell cycle, the circadian clock, and the segmentation clock). He and his collaborators have also developed a novel method to detect oscillatory gene expression in unsynchronized single pluripotent stem cells. Additionally, Dr. Chu is a member of the Precision Medicine & Disease Mechanisms Program at the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) and the Reproduction and Regenerative Medicine (RRM) Research Group at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM).

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