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RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR): Kobe, JP

2018-04-01 to present | Team Leader (Laboratory for Epithelial Morphogenesis)
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Yu-Chiun Wang

RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology: Kobe, JP

2013-10-01 to 2018-03-31 | Team Leader (Laboratory for Epithelial Morphogenesis)
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2007-03-01 to 2013-09-30 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Molecular Biology)
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Chicago: Chicago, IL, US

1999-10-01 to 2006-12-31 | PhD (Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy)
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Yu-Chiun Wang

National Taiwan University: Taipei, TW

1996-09-01 to 1998-06-30 | MS (Department of Zoology)
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Yu-Chiun Wang

National Taiwan University: Taipei, TW

1992-09-01 to 1996-06-30 | BS (Department of Zoology)
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Professional activities (1)

Genetics Society of America: Bethesda, MD, US

2007-04-01 to present
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Funding (1)

Adaptive function and evolutionary capacity for a transitory epithelial structure

2015-05-01 to 2018-04-30 | Grant
International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (Strasbourg, FR)
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37b51a7a

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Works (11)

The origin and the mechanism of mechanical polarity during epithelial folding

Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology
2021-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1084-9521
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Autonomous epithelial folding induced by an intracellular mechano–polarity feedback loop

PLOS Computational Biology
2021-12-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1553-7358
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Tissue-Scale Mechanical Coupling Reduces Morphogenetic Noise to Ensure Precision during Epithelial Folding

Developmental Cell
2020-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1534-5807
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Yu-Chiun Wang

A homeostatic apical microtubule network shortens cells for epithelial folding via a basal polarity shift

Nature Cell Biology
2018-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1465-7392
Part of ISSN: 1476-4679
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Epithelial Folding Driven by Apical or Basal-Lateral Modulation: Geometric Features, Mechanical Inference, and Boundary Effects

Biophysical Journal
2017-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0006-3495
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Quantitative 4D analyses of epithelial folding during Drosophila gastrulation

Development
2014-07-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1477-9129
Part of ISSN: 0950-1991
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Yu-Chiun Wang

A Genetic Network Conferring Canalization to a Bistable Patterning System in Drosophila

Current Biology
2013-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0960-9822
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Distinct Rap1 Activity States Control the Extent of Epithelial Invagination via α-Catenin

Developmental Cell
2013-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1534-5807
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Differential positioning of adherens junctions is associated with initiation of epithelial folding

Nature
2012-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0028-0836
Part of ISSN: 1476-4687
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Spatial bistability of Dpp–receptor interactions during Drosophila dorsal–ventral patterning

Nature
2005-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0028-0836
Part of ISSN: 1476-4687
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Yu-Chiun Wang

The DSmurf ubiquitin-protein ligase restricts BMP signaling spatially and temporally during Drosophila embryogenesis.

Developmental cell
2001-10-01 | Journal article
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Yu-Chiun Wang

Peer review (8 reviews for 6 publications/grants)

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