Affiliation: ShanghaiTech University

Dr. Chao-Po Lin received his bachelor’s degree in Zoology from National Taiwan University in 1998. He received his master’s degree in Genetics from National Yang Ming University in 2002. He received his PhD degree from Rutgers University under the supervision of Prof. Leroy Liu in 2010. Since then, he has been working with Prof. Liu. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2017, he joined the School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University as an assistant professor. Dr. Lin is mainly interested in early embryonic development, the cell fate plasticity of stem cells, and organoid-based disease models. Dr. Wei has published more than 50 papers in SCI journals such as Science, Nature Cell Biology, Molecular Therapy, and Cell Reports.