Curriculum Vitae: Chung-Chuan Lo
| Date of Birth
| 16th October 1972
| Address
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Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan
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| Citizenship
| Taiwan
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| Email
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| Tel
| +886-3-574-2014
| Webpage
| http://life.nthu.edu.tw/~cclo
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Education
| 1998-2004
| Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Ph. D. in Physics
Thesis title: Statistical Physics Approaches for
Understanding Sleep-Wake Transitions
Thesis advisor: H. Eugene Stanley, Professor of Physics
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| 1995-1997
| National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
M. S. in Physics
Thesis title: Study of the Effect of Site Mutation on the Structural
Stability of Cobra Cardiotoxin by Time-Resolved Fluorescence
Thesis advisor: Wunshain Fann, Joint Assistant Professor of Physics.
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| 1991-1995
| National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
B. S. in Physics
Project title: The Effect of Noises on a Cascaded Lorenz System
Project advisor: Yih-Yuh Chen, Associate Professor of Physics.
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Employment
| 2008-present
| National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Asistant professor in Institute of Bioinformatics and Structure Biology
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| 2006-2008
| Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Postdoc fellow in Dr. Xiao-Jing Wang's group.
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| 2004-2006
| Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Postdoc fellow in Dr. Xiao-Jing Wang's group.
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| 1997-1998
| Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan
Research Assistant in optical physics for Dr. W.-S. Fann
Experiments on time-resolved fluorescence of conformational
changes in protein.
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Honors
| 2003
| American Physical Society travel awards for Annual Meeting.
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| 2001
| Sigma Xi award, achievement in graduate reserach at Boston University.
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| 2001
| Travel scholarship for Sleep Medicine Conference, Marburg, Germany
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| 1998-2003
| Boston University Ph.D. research fellowship (2000-2003); teaching
fellowship (1998-2000).
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| 1991-1995
| Ministry of Education (Taiwan) bachelor degree scholarship for
outstanding students.
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Publications
- C.-C. Lo and X.-J. Wang. Cortico-basal ganglia circuit
mechanism for a decision threshold in reaction time tasks. Nat.
Neurosci. 9, 957-963 (2006).
- C.-C. Lo, Chou T, Penzel T, Scammell TE,
Strecker RE, Stanley HE and Ivanov PCh, Common scale-invariant pattern of
sleep-wake transitions across mammalian species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.
50, 17545-17548 (2004)
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T. Penzel, J. W. Kantelhardt, C.-C. Lo,
K. Voigt and C. F. Vogelmeier. Dynamics of Heart Rate
and Sleep Stages in Normals and Patients with Sleep Apnea.
Neuropsychopharmacology 28, S48-S53 (2003)
- C.-C. Lo, L. A. N. Amaral, S. Havlin, P. Ch. Ivanov,
T. Penzel, J.-H. Peter and H. E. Stanley. Dynamics of sleep-wake
transitions during sleep. Europhysics Letters 57 (5), 625-631
(2002).
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P. Ch. Ivanov and C.-C. Lo. Stochastic Approaches to Modeling
of Physiological Rhythms, in Modeling Biomedical signals, edit.
G. Nardulli & S. Stramaglia. World Scientific (2002).
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C.-C. Lo, J.-H. Hsu, Y.-C. Sheu, C.-M. Chiang, W.-G. Wu, W.-S. Fann
and P.-H. Tsao. Effect of D57N mutation on membrane activity and molecular
unfolding of cobra cardiotoxin. Biophysical Journal 75 (5),
2382-2388 (1998).
Conference Talks
| 2007
| Annual Meeting of Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical
Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, California.
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| 2004
| Annual Meeting of Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical
Neurobiology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York.
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| 2003
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American Physical Society Annual March Meeting,
Austin, Texas.
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| 2002
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The 2nd APCTP and 6th Taiwan International Symposium on
Statistical Physics Lattice Models and Complex Systems,
Taipei, Taiwan.
American Physical Society Annual March Meeting,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
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| 2001
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84th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University,
Piscataway, New Jersey.
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Popular Articles and Journal Reviews About My Research
- Roozbeh Kiani, Timothy D Hanks & Michael N Shadlen. When is enough enough?
Nature Neuroscience 9, 681-683 (2006).
- Taylor McNeil, Bring on the Sandman. Bostonia. Summer 2002.
(http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2002/summer/explorations/sleep/index.html)
- Michael Brooks, Feature: Snooze Control. New Scientist p. 173, 38-40,
Feb. 23, 2002.
- "Tired? Well, you woke up 35 times last night", The Daily Mail, p. 35,
Feb. 21, 2002.
- "Sleep well last night? You woke up 37 times", The Mirror, Feb. 21, 2002.
- Complex Digest issue 51, Dec. 19 2001. (http://www.comdig.de/ComDig01-51/#12)
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