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Yuh-Nung Jan

Yuh-Nung Jan

University of California, San Francisco & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
National Academy of Sciences

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Dr. Yuh-Nung Jan is a Jack and DeLoris Lange Professor of Molecular Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Jan completed his undergraduate studies in physics at National Taiwan University in 1967. He continued his graduate and postdoctoral training at California Institute of Technology, where he switched from physics to biology. After additional postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, in 1979, Jan joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, where his lab studies the development and function of the nervous system, focusing in the mechanisms of dendrite development and dendritic morphogenesis.

For his scientific contributions, Jan was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (1996), the Academia Sinica, Taiwan (1998), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007). Together with his lifelong collaborator, Dr. Lily Jan, he received the 2017 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science. Visit his lab website and learn more about Jan’s research.

Talks with this Speaker

Studying the Development of Dendrite Morphogenesis

Dr. Yuh-Nung Jan outlines the sequence of events that led to the understanding of the molecular underpinnings that drive dendrite morphogenesis. (Talk recorded in March 2018)

  • Part 1: How Does a Neuron Develop its Neuronal Type Specific Dendritic Morphology?
    Part 1: How Does a Neuron Develop its Neuronal Type Specific Dendritic Morphology?
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 38:56
  • Part 2: Dendrite Morphology and Function: Cellular and Molecular Basis of Dendrite
    Part 2: Dendrite Morphology and Function: Cellular and Molecular Basis of Dendrite
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 35:07

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