Yi-Fan Lu

Yi-Fan Lu is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Westmont College. His expertise includes human genetics, virology, genomics, and neuroscience. Office hours for Fall 2024 are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM in the Biology Annex.

Education: B.S. in Life Science (National Taiwan University, 2010), Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (Duke University), and postdoctoral research at Columbia University focusing on CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in neurological disease research.

Research Interests: Specializes in modeling human neurological disorders using multi-electrode arrays (MEAs), with a focus on epilepsy and other genetic disorders. Combines genomic analysis with cutting-edge stem cell technologies to study disease mechanisms.

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