Chung-Der Hsiao is Professor of Chung Yuan Christian University for Department of Bioscience Technology. He completed the undergraduate and graduate education in National Taiwan University (majored in Fishery Science). For postdoctoral training, he joined Dr. Pung-Pung Hwang's group at ICOB, Academia Sinica, and worked on fish physiology and bioinformatics. By 2007, Chung-Der was recruited by Chung Yuan Christian University and established his own laboratory, where he used the cutting-edge methods to generate many zebrafish disease models like apoptosis, obesity, skin cancer and aging. From 2012, Chung-Der was invited by GeneTex International Corp, Zgenebio Biotech and Taikong Corp as research consultant to initiate several cooperation projects on developing zebrafish antibodies, TALEN/CRISPR genome editing tools, transgenic fish, next generation sequencing technologies as well as Zebrafish behavioral assessment tools. From 2019, Chung-Der was promoted as full professor of Chung Yuan Christian University; and from 2021, Chung-Der was promoted as director of Research Center for Aquatic Toxicology and Pharmacology. Recent studies in Chung-Der’s lab focus on using deep learning technology to study animal neuro behavior and cardiac physiology. Chung-Der (H-index 35) is author of over 200 high impact journal articles, including Nature, Nature Physics, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, Environmental pollution, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety etc. Heis frequently invited to talk at international and local conferences across a diverse range of fields, and has also spoken to school, students and public audiences. His research has strong application potentials and several patents have been issued regarding to use zebrafish as a human disease models like aging, obesity and cancer. (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chung_Der_Hsiao)

In our lab (http://cdhsiao.weebly.com/), we have setup several simple and cost-effective devices and deep learning-based methods to measure cardiac rhythm, blood flow, swimming activity and behavior in zebrafish. We believe those settings will benefit zebrafish community in the fields of cardiovascular physiology, excise physiology and behavior studies. Can visit our lab website for details.