Fu-Lai Wen

Assistant Professor

Fu-Lai Wen

Assistant Professor

Office
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Office Phone
+886-3-4227151 ext 65350 
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Email
fulai@ncu.edu.tw 

Laboratory

Laboratory for Multiscale Dynamics of Living Systems

Position

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan (2024/08 – Present)

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, National Central University, Taiwan (2008/09 – 2013/06)

B.Sc in Physics, National Central University, Taiwan (2004/09 – 2008/06)

Experience

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Science Education, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan (2023/02 – 2024/07)

Assistant Research Fellow, Intl. Center for Wound Repair and Regeneration, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2021/08 – 2023/01)

MOST Assistant Research Scholar, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2018/11 – 2021/07)

Special Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Japan (2015/02 – 2018/10​)   

Academic Honors

Young Theorist Award, National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), Taiwan, 2023

Merit Pay and Research Reward Program, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2022

MOST Research Scholar Fellowship, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, 2020

Highly Commended Poster Award, Annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, Australia​, 2018​

Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship, Academia Sinica, Taiwan​, 2018​

Special Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowship, RIKEN, Japan​, 2017​

Postgraduates Student Thesis Award for Best Thesis, The Physical Society of Republic of China, Taiwan​, 2014

Best Poster Award for Student, The 7th Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide​, Taiwan, 2011

Nan Shan Life Scholarship, Nan Shan Life Insurance Corporation​, Taiwan, 2009

UMC Scholarship, United Microelectronics Corporation(UMC)​, Taiwan, 2007

Professor Yun-Kui Tai Memorial Scholarship, Yun-Kui Tai Scholarship Foundation, Taiwan, 2007

Research Area

Biophysics, Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Mathematical Biology, Mechanobiology

Research Projects

計畫年度計畫名稱執行起訖
113探索傷口癒合和纖維化中細胞與細胞外基質的相互作用2024/08/01 ~ 2027/07/31
109自組織形狀生成:個體細胞行為與群體組織形態間的多尺度耦合動力學研究2020/08/01 ~ 2023/07/31

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Publications

論文標題 出版期刊 出版年度
Mechanical waves identify the amputation position during wound healing in the amputated zebrafish tailfinNature Physics2023
Expansion of ring-shaped supracellular contractile cables induces epithelial sheet foldingPhysical Review E2022
Autonomous epithelial folding induced by an intracellular mechano–polarity feedback loopPLoS Computational Biology2021
A balance between antagonizing PAR proteins specifies the pattern of asymmetric and symmetric divisions in C. elegans embryogenesisCell Reports2021
Tissue-scale mechanical coupling reduces morphogenetic noise to ensure precision during epithelial foldingDevelopmental Cell2020
Mathematical Modeling of Tissue Folding and Asymmetric Tissue Flow during Epithelial MorphogenesisSymmetry2019
A Switch-like Activation Relay of EGFR-ERK Signaling Regulates a Wave of Cellular Contractility for Epithelial InvaginationDevelopmental Cell2018
Epithelial Folding Driven by Apical or Basal-Lateral Modulation: Geometric Features, Mechanical Inference, and Boundary EffectsBiophysical Journal2017
Spontaneous symmetry breaking for geometrical trajectories of actin-based motility in three dimensionsPhysical Review E2016
Statistics of actin-propelled trajectories in noisy environmentsPhysical Review E2016
Trajectories of Listeria-type motility in two dimensionsPhysical Review E2012
Curved trajectories of actin-based motility in two dimensionsEurophysics Letters2012