About Me

My name is Yu-Chieh David Chen, an NIH F32 and K99/R00 fellow in Dr. Claude Desplan‘s lab at New York University. I was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international student research fellow and did my graduate study in Dr. Anupama Dahanukar’s lab at the University of California Riverside. My long-term research interest is to understand developmental processes and functional roles of primary senses: vision, touch, hearing, and chemosensation (taste and smell), which are essential for organisms to perceive and interact with the world. My future research program lies in understanding molecular regulators underlying various developmental events, such as cell specification, axonal targeting, and synaptic partner matching, to form the functional sensory circuits in Drosophila.

I am on the faculty job market in Fall 2024 and would love to speak to any potential position that fits my research program. My most updated CV is here.