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Chih-Wen Chu

Research Assistant Professor
Bioengineering Department

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Ph.D., Cell Regulation, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2010

M.S., Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University, 2004

B.S., Zoology, National Taiwan University, 2002

Chu, C.W., Masak, G., Yang, J., & Davidson, L.A. (2020). From biomechanics to mechanobiology: Xenopus provides direct access to the physical principles that shape the embryo. Curr Opin Genet Dev, 63, 71-77.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2020.05.011.

Chu, C.W. (2018). First person - Chih-Wen Chu. JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE, 131(10), jcs219725.The Company of Biologists. doi: 10.1242/jcs.219725.

Chu, C.W., Xiang, B., Ossipova, O., Ioannou, A., & Sokol, S.Y. (2018). The Ajuba family protein Wtip regulates actomyosin contractility during vertebrate neural tube closure. J Cell Sci, 131(10), jcs213884.The Company of Biologists. doi: 10.1242/jcs.213884.

Chu, C.W., & Sokol, S.Y. (2016). Wnt proteins can direct planar cell polarity in vertebrate ectoderm. Elife, 5(September2016), e16463.eLife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.16463.

Chu, C.W., Ossipova, O., Ioannou, A., & Sokol, S.Y. (2016). Prickle3 synergizes with Wtip to regulate basal body organization and cilia growth. Sci Rep, 6(1), 24104.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/srep24104.

Ossipova, O., Chu, C.W., Fillatre, J., Brott, B.K., Itoh, K., & Sokol, S.Y. (2015). The involvement of PCP proteins in radial cell intercalations during Xenopus embryonic development. Dev Biol, 408(2), 316-327.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.06.013.

Ossipova, O., Chuykin, I., Chu, C.W., & Sokol, S.Y. (2015). Vangl2 cooperates with Rab11 and Myosin V to regulate apical constriction during vertebrate gastrulation. Development, 142(1), 99-107.The Company of Biologists. doi: 10.1242/dev.111161.

Chu, C.W., Gerstenzang, E., Ossipova, O., & Sokol, S.Y. (2013). Lulu regulates Shroom-induced apical constriction during neural tube closure. In Steele, R.E. (Ed.). PLoS One, 8(11), e81854.Public Library of Science (PLoS). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081854.

Chu, C.W., Hou, F., Zhang, J., Phu, L., Loktev, A.V., Kirkpatrick, D.S., Jackson, P.K., Zhao, Y., & Zou, H. (2011). A novel acetylation of β-tubulin by San modulates microtubule polymerization via down-regulating tubulin incorporation. In Holzbaur, E.L.F. (Ed.). Mol Biol Cell, 22(4), 448-456.American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). doi: 10.1091/mbc.E10-03-0203.

Tsai, P.C., Lee, S.W., Liu, Y.W., Chu, C.W., Chen, K.Y., Ho, J.C., & Lee, F.J.S. (2008). Afi1p functions as an Arf3p polarization-specific docking factor for development of polarity. J Biol Chem, 283(24), 16915-16927.Elsevier. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M802550200.

Hou, F., Chu, C.W., Kong, X., Yokomori, K., & Zou, H. (2007). The acetyltransferase activity of San stabilizes the mitotic cohesin at the centromeres in a shugoshin-independent manner. J Cell Biol, 177(4), 587-597.Rockefeller University Press. doi: 10.1083/jcb.200701043.