Counting Number and Time by Mammalian Stem Cells

About the speaker

Prof. Zhong Weimin received his PhD from the Rockefeller University in 1993. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco before joining Yale University in 1999. He is currently Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University.

Prof. Zhong’s research focuses on how stem cells balance the competing needs of self-renewal and differentiation during organogenesis and tissue maintenance, as a means to understand the fundamental biology of stem cells and provide insights for their therapeutic use in treating disease and injury. Currently, he uses Numb proteins, which segregate asymmetrically to distinguish the two daughter cells after an asymmetric cell division, as an entry point to examine how neural stem (progenitor) cells are regulated during mouse embryogenesis.

Prof. Zhong has served on expert panels at the US National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, and National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is also the Section Editor for Neuroscience and the Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.