Lu, Po-Nien

After received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in his home country of Taiwan, Dr. Lu came to the US to pursue a higher degree in 2006. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Case Western Reserve University in 2012 for his study on the interaction between neural tube defects and the establishing of left-right asymmetry on brain using zebrafish as a model system. Dr. Lu joined Drs. Heather and Richard Steet’s group at the University of Georgia in 2015 as a postdoctoral associate to study the developmental pathogenesis of lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) and other related diseases utilizing zebrafish model system. In 2018 Dr. Lu joined GGC with the Steet group and will continue his work on establishing and characterizing the transgenic and mutant zebrafish lines to further understand the roles of cathepsin proteases in LSDs.

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Education

• B.S. (Life Science) National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2001
• M.S. (Oral Biology) National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003
• Ph.D. (Biology) Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 2012
• Postdoctoral Fellow, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013
• Postdoctoral Associate, University of Georgia, GA, 2015

Selected Publications

• Lee, H.*, Lu, P.*, Huang, H.*, Chu, C., Li, H.,Tsai, H. Zebrafish Transgenic Line huORFZ is an Effective Living Bioindicator for Detecting
  Environmental Toxicants. PLoS One 9 (3), 2014. *co-first authors.
• Lu, P., Lund, C., Khuansuwan, S., Schumann, A., Harney-Tolo, M., Gamse, J.T., Liang, J.O. Failure in closure of the anterior neural
  tube causes left isomerization of the zebrafish epithalamus. Development Biology 374 (2), 2012.
• Noche, R.*, Lu, P.*, Goldstein-Kral, L., Glasgow, E. & Liang, J. Circadian rhythms in the pineal organ persist in zebrafish larvae
  that lack ventral brain. BMC Neuroscience 12 (1) , 7, 2011. *co-first authors.