Lily Jan

Lily Yeh Jan (葉公杼) is a Taiwanese - American neurophysiologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco .

Lily Jan and her husband, Yuh Nung Jan , have made particular contributions to their research into the protein family of the potassium channels , which play an important role in the excitability of nerve cells and muscle cells . The subject of research is the DNA sequence , structure, function and regulation of the potassium channels. More recent work also deals with calcium- activated chloride channels .

Life

Lily Jan earned a bachelor's degree in physics from National Taiwan University in Taipei in 1968 , a master's degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena , California in 1970 , and a Ph.D. in 1974. in physics and biophysics there . In 1971 she married Yuh Nung Jan . Under the influence of Max Delbrück , both turned to biology . Lily Jan worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts . In 1979 she became an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco , and in 1985 she received a full professorship there. Since 1984 she has been doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

Jan Lab at the University of California, San Francisco (ucsf.edu); Retrieved March 26, 2011
Biography and research abstract at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi.org); Retrieved March 26, 2011
Profile and curriculum vitae (PDF; 68 kB) at Academia Sinica (sinica.edu.tw); Retrieved March 26, 2011

personal data
SURNAME	Jan, Lily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jan, Lily Yeh; Jan, Lily Y .; 葉公杼 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Taiwanese-American neurophysiologist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century