Dr. Heng-Cheng "Alvis" Hu
(胡恆正)

EDUCATION:

• B.S., Botany, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1998
• M.S., Genetics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2000
• Ph.D., Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008

EXPERIENCE:

• Research Assistant, National Bureau of Controlled Drugs, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan, Jul 1999-Jul 2000
• Research Assistant, Institute of Molecular Biolog, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Apr 2007-Oct 2008
• Visiting Researcher, Department of Plant Bioogy, Carnegie Institute of Sciences, Stanford, CA, May 2009-Jul 2009
• Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, Nov 2008-Jan 2013
• Lab Manager/Assistant Scientist II, Schnable Lab, Feb 2013-Oct 2014
• Lab Manager/Assistant Scientist IV, Schnable Lab, Oct 2014-Mar 2016

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9676-1936

PUBLICATIONS (5):

• Boatwright JL, CT Yeh, HC Hu, A Susanna, DE Soltis, PS Soltis, PS Schnable, WB Barbazuk (2021) Trajectories of homoeolog-specific expression in allotetraploid Tragopogon castellanus populations of independent origins. Front Plant Sci, 12: 1165.
  

  [ Abstract | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.679047 | PMID: 34249049 | Impact Factor: 4.1 ]
• Ott A, JC Schnable, CT Yeh, L Wu, C Liu, HC Hu, CL Dalgard, S Sarkar, PS Schnable (2018) Linked read technology for assembling large complex and polyploid genomes. BMC Genomics, 19(1): 651.
  

  [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | doi:10.1186/s12864-018-5040-z | PMID: 30180802 | Impact Factor: 3.5 ]
• Li L*, S Hey*, S Liu, Q Liu, C McNinch, HC Hu, TJ Wen, C Marcon, A Paschold, W Bruce, PS Schnable, F Hochholdinger (2016) Characterization of maize roothairless6 which encodes a D-type cellulose synthase and controls the switch from bulge formation to tip growth. Sci Rep, 6: 34395.(Selected as an Editors' Choice by MaizeGDB, 11/2016)
  

  [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1038/srep34395 | PMID: 27708345 | Impact Factor: 3.8 ]
• Leiboff S, X Li, HC Hu, N Todt, J Yang, X Li, X Yu, GJ Muehlbauer, MC Timmermans, J Yu, PS Schnable, MJ Scanlon (2015) Genetic control of morphometric diversity in the maize shoot apical meristem. Nat Commun, 6: 8974.(Epub 2015 Nov 20; Selected as an Editors' Choice by MaizeGDB, 01/2016)
  

  [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1038/ncomms9974 | PMID: 26584889 | Impact Factor: 14.7 ]
• Li L*, D Li*, S Liu, X Ma, CR Dietrich, HC Hu, G Zhang, Z Liu, J Zheng, G Wang, PS Schnable (2013) The maize glossy13 gene, cloned via BSR-Seq and Seq-Walking encodes a putative ABC transporter required for the normal accumulation of epicuticular waxes. PLoS One, 8(12): e82333.
  

  [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082333 | PMID: 24324772 | Impact Factor: 2.9 | Cited 66 times ]