I'm Jeff Chuang, and welcome to my page. Houston, Texas was my home from birth until age 18, when I went off to Harvard for college. I majored in Chemistry and Physics and graduated in 1996. While an undergrad, I worked on a bunch of different physics projects, doing fun things like throwing crystals into liquid helium, modeling how to create antimatter, and changing the plumbing on some very hot ovens.
Afterwards, I walked down the street to MIT to get a Ph.D. in theoretical physics . There I studied topics such as protein folding, DNA, and the remarkable thermodynamic properties of polymer gels with Toyoichi Tanaka , Alexander Grosberg , and Mehran Kardar . Another of the amusing things I was able to do in grad school was spend a summer working for the Dallas Morning News . I graduated in 2001, after which I went off to postdoc at UC San Francisco with Prof. Hao Li in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department since then. Since September 2005, I've been in the Biology Department at Boston College , as an assistant professor in computational biology.
My research interests are in the interface of evolution and gene regulation. Here are some of the questions that I like to think about: How fast does transcriptional regulation evolve? How much of that is due to selection and how much is just "noise"? What are the characteristics of this "noise" in different organisms, at the sequence level, and at the level of gene expression?
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