Chuan-Chin Chiao (焦傳金)

Associate Professor

Institute of Molecular Medicine &

Department of Life Science

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Phone    886-3-574-2464

Fax        886-3-571-5934

Office     LSII-646      

Lab        LSII-639

E-mail    ccchiao@life.nthu.edu.tw

Lab website  http://life.nthu.edu.tw/~labccc/lab_homepage.htm

Adjunct Scientist (since 2007)

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA

Visiting Scientist (fall, 2008)

Department of Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine, USA

Academic background

Assistant Professor (2008) - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Postdoc (2002) - Harvard University, USA

Grass Fellow (2000) - Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA

PhD (2000) - University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA

BS (1991) - National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

Research interests (full description)

I am interested in a variety of vision related topics. This includes: retinal neurobiology, visual camouflage, visual ecology, visual perception, and retinal prosthesis. Multidisciplinary approaches are undertaken in the lab to seek deep understanding of vision in the context of biology.

Teaching

Life science (biology major)

Molecular and cellular biology

Neuroscience I & II

Graduate seminar

Recent publications (complete list)

l   Hanlon R.T., Chiao C.-C., Mäthger L., Barbosa A., Buresch K., Chubb C. Cephalopod dynamic camouflage: bridging the continuum between background matching and disruptive coloration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B (in press).

l   Chang Y.-C. and Chiao C.-C. Localization and functional mapping of AMPA receptor subunits in the developing rabbit retina. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (in press).

l   Chan Y.-C. and Chiao C.-C. Effect of visual experience on the maturation of ON–OFF direction selective ganglion cells in the rabbit retina. Vision Research 48:2466-2475 (2008).

l   Barbosa A., Mäthger L., Buresch K., Kelly J., Chubb C., Chiao C.-C. and Hanlon R.T. Cuttlefish camouflage: the effects of substrate contrast and size in evoking uniform, mottle or disruptive body patterns. Vision Research 48:1242-1253 (2008).

l   Mäthger L., Chiao C.-C., Barbosa A., and Hanlon R.T. Color matching on natural substrates in cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 194:577-585 (2008).

l   Chen Y.-C. and Chiao C.-C. Symmetric synaptic patterns between starburst amacrine cells and direction selective ganglion cells in the rabbit retina. Journal of Comparative Neurology 508:175-183 (2008).