Chun Han
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Chun Han is a Nancy M. and Samuel C. Fleming Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. He is a member of the Graduate Fields of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology (BMCB), Genetics, Genomics and Development (GG&D), and Neurobiology and Behavior (NB&B). After obtaining a B.S. degree in Cell Biology and Genetics in Peking University, China, he went to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for his Ph.D, where he worked with Xinhua Lin to study morphogen gradient formation in Drosophila. He then joined the lab of Yuh Nung Jan at the University of California, San Francisco, as a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow. He started his faculty position at Cornell in November, 2013.
Courses Taught
- BIOG 4990: Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology
Chun in the news

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Thousands of strains of drosophilia, or fruit fly, have been developed for research purposes at Cornell Research. These fruit flies are currently being used to investigate human diseases, and researcher Chun Han from Cornell's Molecular Biology and Genetics lab is developing a new research technique called gRNA-infused crossing over, or MAGIC, that will make this type of research easier for future experiments.
- Molecular Biology and Genetics
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One such method, mosaic analysis, has led to many discoveries of the functions of genes. Although mosaic analysis has been widely used in Drosophila, a popular model organism, it is much harder to implement in other organisms. A new paper...
- Molecular Biology and Genetics
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- Genetics