Bioengineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
BMC Biol. 2018 Nov 1;16(1):130. doi: 10.1186/s12915-018-0595-3.
Kerwyn Casey ("KC") Huang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University, studying the physical nature of biological systems and the underpinnings of fundamental processes such as cell shape determination, cell division, and intracellular and microbial community organization. In this interview, KC discusses how the ability to pursue insights at scales from molecules to cellular communities can shed new light on longstanding questions, the necessity for new tools in exploring the microbiome, how to create an empowering lab environment, and why integrating chemistry with physics and biology can bring us closer to asking the right questions.
黄柯文(KC)是斯坦福大学的副教授,研究生物系统的物理性质以及细胞形态决定、细胞分裂和细胞内及微生物群落组织等基本过程的基础。在本次访谈中,KC 探讨了从分子到细胞群落等多个尺度上追求见解的能力如何为长期存在的问题提供新的线索、探索微生物组需要新工具的原因、如何营造赋权的实验室环境,以及为什么将化学、物理和生物学结合起来可以帮助我们提出正确的问题。