Prof. Dr. Kerwyn Casey Huang

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsBiophysics,Metabolism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of Microorganisms
Keywordsmorphogenesis, bacterial growth, systems biology, cytoskeletal dynamics, computational biology

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityStanford
InstitutionStanford University
InstituteDepartment of Bioengineering

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Athanasios TypasGenome Biology and Cell Biology and Biophysics Units, Europäisches Laboratorium für Molekularbiologie (EMBL), Heidelberg
Dr. Athanasios TypasGenome Biology, Europäisches Laboratorium für Molekularbiologie (EMBL), Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Martin Rudolf ThanbichlerAbteilung Biogeochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2015

Programme(s)

2014Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Huang is a world leading figure in the field of bacterial cell biology. He has acquired an international reputation for the interdisciplinary application of theory, computation and experiments to tackle longstanding fundamental questions in our understanding of bacterial growth and shape. His work broadly focuses on fundamental questions of how cells establish sophisticated patterns of intracellular organization, how cell geometry is sensed and how cells form their shape. During his stay in Germany, he will be exploring the relationship between bacterial cell morphology and stress, using cutting-edge, high-throughput approaches.