LSI Seminar Series: Twists & turns of our unexpected journey into lipid biology
Twists & turns of our unexpected journey into lipid biology
Over the past three decades, the Han lab has made a number of changes/additions in research directions, often into fields that were foreign to them. Thanks to the adventurous tendencies of trainees, most of the new projects generated breakthrough findings and trained future scientists. Highly interdisciplinary approaches and multiple model organisms have been used in these studies. In this seminar, Han will recount the initiation and the key moments of the lab's studies in the lipid field, which exemplify both the fun and aggravation associated with stepping into a new research field.
Speaker
Min Han received his B.S. degree from Peking University before obtaining a Ph.D. from the Molecular Biology Institute of UCLA, where he explored histone functions in gene regulation under the guidance of Michael Grunstein. He then worked under Paul Stenberg at Caltech to study the regulation of developmental decisions using the genetics of C. elegans. Han started his own lab at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1991 and was an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1997 to 2018. He has received numerous awards and scholarships in his career and was elected to be a member of American Academy of Arts and Science in 2024.