Group Leader
Yingguang Frank Chan
Contact
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
Max-Planck-Ring 9
72076 Tübingen
Germany
T: +49 7071 601 888
F: +49 7071 601 801
@: frank.chan@tue.mpg.de
DOB: Nov 1, 1979
Nationality: British (Overseas) and German
Children: 2 (born April 2015 and April 2017)
Education and Training
2012 – Present Max Planck Research Group Leader (Associate/W2 level; 5+2+2 fixed term)
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tübingen, Germany
2009 – 2012 VolkswagenStiftung Postdoctoral Fellow under Prof. Dr. Diethard Tautz
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
2003 – 2009 PhD in Developmental Biology, advisor: Prof. David M. Kingsley
Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
2001 Research Intern, LION Bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany
2000 Research Assistant, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
1999-2003 BA (Honors) in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, USA
Honors and Awards
2010 Walter M. Fitch Prize Finalist
2008 AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science
2003 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (Gamma Chapter)
2003 Scott Biomedical Prize for Excellence in Biology
1999 Hong Kong SCMP Student Linguist of the Year
1999 Dr. Li Fook Sin Scholarship
Fellowship and Grants
2021 Cornell Genome Innovation Hub, collaborator with N. O. Therkildsen
2021 – 2024 BBSRC, Co-P/I with C. Jiggins & J. Mappes
2021 Genome Innvoation Hub, U. Queensland, AU, Co-P/I
2021 – 2023 FWO, Collaborator/co-P/I with H. Svardal
2020 – 2023 Bilateral BBSRC-FAPESP - Co-P/I with C. Jiggins, T. Walsh and A. S. Corrêa
2014 – 2020 ERC Starting Grant – HybridMiX (1,500,000€)
2012 Max Planck Research Group Leader (approx. 2,000,000€ over five years)
2011 Young Researcher, Lindau Nobel Meeting (supported by Max Planck Society and the Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung)
2010 – 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, VolkswagenStiftung: Evolutionary Biology (160,000€)
2010 EMBO Longterm Fellowship (gratefully declined)
2010 A. v. Humboldt Research Fellowship (gratefully declined)
2003 – 2006 Affymetrix Bio-X Fellow, Stanford Graduate Fellowship
2001 CDS International Summer Internship Program
2000, 2002 Howard Hughes Summer Research Fellowship
1999 – 2003 Freeman Asian Scholar
Sponsored fellowships
2014 Paloma Medina, Fulbright US Student Scholarship
2013 Mirna Marinič, EMBO Long Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
Selected Invited Presentations (since 2014)
2021
- Illumina (Webinar), San Diego, USA
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2020
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Cambridge, UK.
- IMP. Vienna, AT.
- University of Hamburg, Hamburg, DE.
2019
- University of California, Davis. Dept. of Evolution and Ecology. Davis, CA, USA.
- University of California, Berkeley. Molecular & Cell Biology. Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Cornell University. Cornell Center for Comp. and Pop. Genomics. Ithaca NY, USA.
- Max Planck Institute of Plant Breeding. Cologne, DE.
- Stanford University, Dept of Developmental Biology. Stanford, CA, USA.
- Frontiers in Biology (Cross-departmental seminar series)
2018
- Wellcome Genome Campus. Hinxton, UK. Advanced Course: NGS Bioinformatics
2017
- University of Zurich, Inst of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Zürich, CH.
- Edinburgh Alliance for Complex Trait Genetics. Edinburgh, UK. Keynote speaker.
- MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM). Edinburgh, UK.
2016
- Cambridge Institute, Cancer Research UK. Cambridge, UK.
- BMS Section Symposium, Max Planck Society. Berlin, DE.
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics. Berlin, DE.
- Univ. of Geneva, Dept of Genetics and Evolution. Geneva, CH.
- EMBO Symposium: New Model for Evolution and Ecology. Heidelberg, DE.
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. Dresden, DE.
2015
- VetMedUni. Vienna, AT. (Departmental seminar series)
- Max Planck Institute for Ageing. Cologne, DE.
- Université de Lausanne, Center for Integrative Genomics. Lausanne, CH.
2014
- EuroEvoDevo, Vienna, AT.
- Wild Mouse Workshop. Plön, DE.
- Institute de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon. Lyon, FR.
- MPI for Cell Biology and Genetics. Dresden, DE. (Postdoc-invited Guest Speaker)
Selected Contributed Presentations (oral only)
2020
- International Conference of Quantitative Genetics, Brisbane, Australia
- Evolutionary Systems Biology. Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
2019
- Wild Mouse Meeting. Brno, CZ.
2018
- Genetics Society (Genotype to Phenotype to Fitness). Exeter, UK.
- Evolutionary Systems Biology. Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
2017
- EMBL Conference, Mammalian Genetics and Genomics. Heidelberg, DE.
2016
- Genetics Society (Func. Genetic Variation in the Non-coding Genome). London, UK.
- Advances in Evolutionary Genomics, Conférence Jacques Monod. Roscoff, FR.
2014
- Systems Genetics and Evolution. Ascona, CH.
- Size and Shape. Göttingen, DE.
2012
- Evolution 2012. Ottawa, CA.
- Advances in Evolutionary Genomics, Conférence Jacques Monod. Roscoff, FR.
2011
- European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Congress. Tübingen, DE.
- EvoDevo Keystone Symposium. Lake Tahoe CA, USA.
2010
- Walter M. Fitch Prize Symposium. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting. Lyon, FR.
2009
- International Society for Developmental Biology Congress. Edinburgh, UK.
Thesis supervision
Moritz Peters From 2020
Volker Soltys From 2020
Dingwen Su From 2020
Michelle Yancoskie Defended Nov. 2019
João P. L. Castro Defended May 2020, magna cum laude
Rebecka Wombacher 2014, MSc thesis
Mohannad Dardiry 2014 – 2015, MEME (LMU), 1st Thesis
Moritz Peters 2018 – 2019, MSc thesis
Volker Soltys 2018 – 2019, MSc thesis
Dingwen Su 2019, MSc thesis
Thesis advisory committee member for 10 additional students (1 completed)
Referee and Reviewing
Journals: Science, eLife, Nature Review Genetics, Developmental Cell, Current Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, Comprehensive Physiology, PLoS ONE, BMC Evolutionary Biology
Funding agencies: ERC/European Research Council (External expert, Advanced and Consolidator Grants), SNSF/Swiss National Science Foundation (Sinergia), BBSRC/UK Biotech Research Council, FWF/Austrian Science Fund, NSF/US National Science Foundation, NWO/Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, FCT/Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, GACR/Czech Science Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Computer Languages
Bash, Perl, python, MySQL, R, C++, Mathematica
Languages
English (fluent), French (fluent), German (fluent), Cantonese (native), Mandarin (fluent)