Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Chun Han is a Nancy M. and Samuel C. Fleming Associate 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
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful new genetic toolkit that allows scientists to study how genes function at the level of individual cells, an advance that could accelerate discoveries in development, neuroscience and...
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.