Yin-Wei (Kris) Kuo is a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. He received his PhD in biophysical chemistry from Yale University, where he investigated cytoskeletal polymer dynamics using in vitro reconstitution approaches in the laboratory of Joe Howard. He subsequently joined the group of Buzz Baum at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology for his postdoctoral research. His current work focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms governing cell cycle regulation in archaea and developing new molecular and genetic tools for these emerging model organisms. By combining quantitative biophysical approaches with molecular and cell biology, his research aims to uncover fundamental principles of cell division in archaeal systems. Dr. Kuo was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2022 and is currently a Bye-Fellow at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. His broader research interests lie at the intersection of molecular biology, biophysics, and evolutionary cell biology, with a particular focus on understanding how complex cellular processes such as mitosis in eukaryotic cells emerged from ancestral prokaryotic mechanisms. Through this work, he aims to elucidate the evolutionary origins and diversification of the molecular systems that control fundamental cellular processes essential for the survival and propagation of living lineages.
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