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Frank Chan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Groningen, leading the Chan lab - Quantitative Genetics and Genomics. He holds a PhD in Developmental Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine (2009) and a BA in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from Wesleyan University (2003). His research focuses on evolutionary genomics, particularly in sticklebacks, mice, and butterfly species, exploring topics like genomic basis of adaptation, haplotype analysis, and hybridization.
Key research interests include evolutionary genetics, quantitative biology, and the application of genomic tools to study parallel evolution and hybridization. He has received prestigious grants such as the ERC Starting Grant (2014) and ERC Proof of Concept (2022), and fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt and EMBO awards.
Recent work includes studies on haplotype tagging in butterflies (PNAS 2021), genomic analysis of mouse limb evolution (eLife 2019), and structural variation in stickleback pelvic reduction (Science 2010). His lab also investigates T cell receptor diversity in mice and population genomics of Faroe Island mice.
- Awards: ERC Grants, Humboldt Fellowship, VolkswagenStiftung Grant
- Lab: Chan Lab - Quantitative Genetics & Genomics
- Positions: Board of Reviewing Editor at eLife (2023–2024), Former Max Planck Research Group Leader (2012–2023)
