Kai-Chun Chang

Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

University of California, San Francisco

Kai-Chun Chang
Postdoctoral researcher

Kai-Chun Chang is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Adam Abate’s lab in Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. He received a bachelor degree in Life Science with Dean’s award from National Taiwan University. After graduation, he stayed in NTU to continue his pursuit of a Ph.D. degree in Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

During Dr. Chang’s Ph.D. research in Dr. Jin-Der Wen’s lab, he built a single-molecule fluorescence platform and various computational tools to study and model biological macromolecules in translational regulation. With single-molecule resolution, his work uncovers critical conformational intermediates in programmed ribosomal frameshifting. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he joined Dr. Abate’s lab as a postdoctoral researcher and received a fellowship from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. His current research focus is multi-omics analysis of single cells with droplet microfluidics. By applying printed droplet microfluidics (PDM), he connects various omics platforms, including optical observation, mass spec and RNA-seq on single cells. The novel workflow enables high-throughput profiling of single mammalian cells and parallel screening of metabolically engineered yeast strains.

Publications

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1Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, 2University of California Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California San Francisco, 3Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 4California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California San Francisco, 5Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

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 Bioengineering