Feng-Ching Tsai

My personal website https://fctsai.com/

Google scholar https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=EAafgAQAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6869-5254

 

Brief biography

After initially trained as a physicist, followed by a PhD in soft matter biophysics, and a postdoc in cell biology and membrane biophysics, I was recruited by CNRS as a permanent researcher in 2019.

Since 2019                    CNRS researcher (CRCN), Institut Curie, Paris, France

2014 – 2019                Postdoc in the groups of Dr. P. Bassereau and Dr. B. Goud, Institut Curie, Paris, France. (supported by EMBO and Marie Curie fellowships)

2009 – 2014               PhD thesis Cytoskeletal organization in biomimetic liposomes

Supervisor: Prof. G. Koenderink, AMOLF, the Netherlands

2007 – 2009                    Research Assistant. Topic: Actin-driven membrane waves in living cells

Supervisor: Prof. Chau-Hwang Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2005 – 2007                    Master thesis Physics of adsorption induced endocytosis

Supervisor: Prof. Hsuan-Yi Chen, National Central University, Taiwan

2001 – 2005                    Bachelor, Department of Physics, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

 

Current research focus

My current research aims to reveal physical mechanisms underlying actin-driven membrane reshaping in membrane trafficking and protrusion formation in cells.

To this end, I use principles and tools of physics, and bottom-up approaches – in vitro reconstitution systems composed of model membranes and purified proteins.

If you are interested in joining our research team as a postdoc, undergraduate or graduate student, please feel free to contact me!

 

Actin filaments are recruited to the membrane of a giant unilamellar vesicle (GUVs) via actin-membrane linker ezrin. Maximum intensity projection is shown. Green: actin. Scale bar, 5 μm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inward membrane protrusions induced by the I-BAR domain of IRSp53 on GUVs. Green: I-BAR domain, magenta: membranes. Scale bar, 5 μm.