时间：2025年5月16日（周五）上午10:00-11:00

Time: 10:00-11:00, Friday, May 16, 2025

地点：E10-211, 云谷校区

Venue：E10-211, Yungu Campus

讲座语言：英文

Lecture Language: English

Prof. KC Huang

Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology and Immunology

Stanford University

主讲人/Speaker：

KC Huang was an undergraduate Physics and Mathematics major in Page House at Caltech, and spent a year as a Churchill Scholar at Cambridge University working with Dr. Guna Rajagopal on Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of water cluster formation. He received his PhD from MIT working with Prof. John Joannopoulos on electromagnetic flux localization in polaritonic photonic crystals and the control of melting at semiconductor surfaces using nanoscale coatings. During a short summer internship at NEC Research Labs, he became interested in self-organization in biological systems, and moved on to a postdoc with Prof. Ned Wingreen in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton working on the relationships among cell shape detection, determination, and maintenance in bacteria. His lab is currently situated in the departments of Bioengineering and Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford, and his current interests include cell division, membrane organization, cell wall biogenesis, and the organizational principles of bacterial communities. He has been director of the Biophysics Graduate Program since 2015, and is a general member of the Aspen Center for Physics board.

讲座摘要/Abstract:

A fundamental challenge for all cells is to robustly grow in the face of environmental insults and interactions with other cells. I’ll discuss biophysical tools and models we have developed to probe the bacterial cell envelope, which revealed new mechanical elements and biological principles as well as the role of the envelope in surviving interspecies warfare.

讲座联系人/Contact:

何柏毅实验室，李彬娟，邮箱：libinjuan@westlake.edu.cn

Ho Lab, Ms. Binjuan Li, Email: libinjuan@westlake.edu.cn