Curriculum Vitae

Chau-Ti Ting

Department of Life Science

Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Institute of Zoology
National Taiwan University
1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road

Taipei 106, Taiwan, Republic of China

Telephone: (+886) 2-3366-2522

Fax: (+886) 3-2367-3374

E-mail:

Web page: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~ctting/Home.html

Personal Data:

Nationality: Republic of China Sex: Female

Place of Birth: Keelung, Taiwan Marital Status: Married, three children

Date of Birth: July 31, 1966

Educational Background:

1991~’95, ’97 / Ph.D. Entomology, National Taiwan University
Major in Population genetics and evolution
Dissertation Title: Genetic analysis of population differentiation and premating isolation
Dissertation advisors: Hwei-yu Chang, Fei-Jann Lin and Chung-I Wu
1995~’97 / Visiting student, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
1989~’91 / M.S. Plant Pathology and Entomology, National Taiwan University, Major in Molecular Evolution
Thesis Title: Molecular phylogeny of Drosophila immigrans species subgroup
Thesis advisor: Hwei-yu Chang
1985~’89 / B.S., Plant Pathology and Entomology, National Taiwan University
Major in Entomology

Professional Experiences:

2006 Aug.-present Associate Professor, Department of Life Science, Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Institute of Zoology, National Taiwan University

2004 Aug.-2006 July Associate Professor, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University

2005 Feb.-2005 Aug. Visiting Scholar, Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis

2000 Aug.-2004 July Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University

1997 June-2000 July Research associate, Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago

Scholarships and Honors

Research Awards

Junior Research Investigators award, Academia Sinica, 2006.

Young Investigator Award for Research Excellency, National Tsing Hua University, 2005.

Wu Ta-You Memorial Award for Research Excellency, Wu Ta-You Foundation and National Science Council, 2004.

NSC Research Award, National Science Council, 2000.

Travel award, Gordon research conference on molecular evolution, 1999.

Honors

Nomination for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University, 2002.

Agricultural Division Scholarship in Recognition of Outstanding Academic Performance in Agriculture Sciences, CIBA-GEIGY (TAIWAN) Limited, 1992.

Fellowships

Fellowship for oversea Pre-doctoral Research, the Ministry of Education, Republic of China, 1995 Sept.-’96 Aug.

The Best Poster Award of Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Republic of China, 1995

Scholarship for graduate student, National Science Council, Republic of China, 1992 Feb.-’95 July.

Scholarship for graduate student, Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, 1991-’92.

Scholarship for graduate student, the Ministry of Education, Republic of China, 1989-’91.

Fellowship for undergraduate summer project, National Science Council, Republic of China, 1989 July-’89 Sept.

Professional Society Memberships

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Genetics Society of America
Molecular Biology and Evolution

Taiwan Entomological Society

Research Interests:

Evolutionary Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Population Genetics, Genomics

Publications

I. Articles

C.-T. Ting, Poh Y.-P., Wei-Chin Ho and S.-C. Tsaur. Incomplete lineage sorting in Drosophila simulans clade. (In preparation)

Poh Y.-P., D. J. Begun, S.-C. Tsaur, C. H. Langley and C.-T. Ting.* Patterns of base composition evolution in Drosophila genome. (*Corresponding author, To be submitted).

Lu, X., J. A. Shapiro, C.-T. Ting, A. J. Greenberg, S. H. Li, C.-I Wu. 2010. Mis-regulation of X-linked vs. autosomal genes in Drosophila testis. Genome Research (Accepted)

Fang, S.*, C. T. Ting*, C. R. Lee, K. H. Chu, C. C. Wang, and S. C. Tsaur. 2009 Molecular evolution and functional diversification of fatty acid desaturases after recurrent gene duplication in Drosophila. Mol. Biol. Evol. 26:1447-1456. (*co-first author).

Ting, C.-T.*, S. C. Tsaur, S. Sun, W. E. Browne, N. H. Patel, Y.-C. Chen and C.-I Wu. 2004 Gene duplication and speciation in Drosophila – Evidence from the Odysseus locus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 12232-12235. (*Corresponding author)

Sun, S., C.-T. Ting, and C.-I. Wu. 2004 On the normal function of a speciation gene, Odysseus, and its hybrid sterility effect. Science 305: 81-83.

Wu, C.-I and C.-T. Ting. 2004 Genes and Speciation. Nat. Rev. Genetics 5:114-122.

Takahashi, A. and C.-T. Ting. 2004. Genetic basis of sexual isolation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica 120:273-284.

Ting C. -T., A. Takahashi, and C.-I Wu. 2001. Incipient speciation by sexual isolation in Drosophila: Concurrent evolution at multiple loci. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 6709-6713.

Tsaur, S. C., C. -T. Ting, and C.-I Wu. 2001. Sex in Drosophila mauritiana: Very high level of amino acid polymorphism in a male reproductive protein gene, Acp26Aa. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18:22-26.

Ting, C.-T., S. C. Tsaur, and C.-I Wu. 2000. The phylogeny of closely related species as revealed by the genealogy of a speciation gene, Odysseus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97:5313-5316.

Ting, C.-T., S. C. Tsaur, M.-L. Wu and C.-I Wu. 1998. A rapidly evolving homeobox at the site of a hybrid sterility gene. Science 282:1501-1504.

Tsaur, S. C., C.-T. Ting and C. -I Wu. 1998. Positive selection driving the evolution of a gene of male reproduction, Acp26Aa of Drosophila: II. Divergence vs. polymorphism. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15:1040-1046.

Hollocher, H., C.-T. Ting, M.-L Wu, and C. -I Wu. 1997. Incipient speciation by sexual isolation in Drosophila melanogaster: extensive genetic divergence without reinforcement. Genetics 147:1191-1201.

Hollocher, H., C.-T. Ting, F. Pollack, and C. -I Wu. 1997. Incipient speciation by sexual isolation in Drosophila melanogaster: variation in mating preference and correlation between sexes. Evolution 51(4):1175-1181.

Chang, H., C.-T. Ting, and F. J. Lin. 1994. On the low genetic variability in Drosophila immigrans and D. formosana. Zoological Studies 33(4):278-286.

Talks and Seminars

A. Departmental Seminar

Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University (2008)

Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA (2008)

Department of Life Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, China (2007)

Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, USA (2007)

Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University (2006)

Department of Zoology, University of Florida, USA (2005)

National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Science Council (2003)

Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing Univeristy (2003)

Department of Plant Pathology, National Taiwan University (2002)

Department of Biology, Tunghai University (2002)

Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica (2002)

Institute of Bioinformatics, National Yang Ming University (2002)

Max Planck Institute, Germany (2001)

Department of Zoology, National Taiwan University (2001)

Department of Life Sciences, National Tsing Hua University (2000)

B. Invited talks and plenary lectures

International Genetics Congress (2008)

Japanese Drosophila Research Conference (2007)

The 3rd Developmental Biology Retreat, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica (2002, Plenary Lecture)

The 4th Annual meeting. Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan (2002)

The 21st Annual meeting, Taiwan Entomological Society, (2000, Plenary Lecture)

CNRS Drosophila Meeting, France (2001)

Service

Manuscript reviews: BMC Evolutionary Biology, Gene, Gene and Genetic System, Genetica, Genetics, Evolution, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, PLoS Biology, Zoological Study

Editorial broad: Zoological Study (2008-present)

Grant reviews (ad hoc and as panel member)

National Science Council (Taiwan, ROC), Zoology panel (2007)

National Science Council (Taiwan, ROC), Biodiversity panel (2008-2009)

Other professional service and outreach

Workshop on Molecular Evolution (Organizer, 2004)

Workshop on History of Genetics (Organizer, 2006)

Workshop on Computational Molecular Evolution (Organizer, 2007)

International Congress of Genetics (International Organizer and Section Chair, 2008)

Drosophila Genetics and Genomics, Guest Lecture (2008, Organized by Michael Ashburner, Scott Hawley and Casey Bergman)

Darwin 200 at NTU (Organizer, 2009)

Workshop on Classical Drosophila Genetics (Organizer, 2009)

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