Member of National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Elected Member of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas Editorial Board of Journal of Nanobiotechnology, Structure, Microscopy Society of America Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Biozentrum, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Division of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Member, Scientific Advisory Board, BioXFEL Center, University of Buffalo Professor of Photon Science, Bioengineering and of Microbiology and Immunology SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Stanford University Expertise: Single-particle cryo-EM and cryo-electron tomography Dr. Wah Chiu is currently Professor at Stanford in SLAC, the Depts of Bioengineering, Microbiology and Immunology, and a Stanford Bio-X affiliated Faculty. He was formerly the Distinguished Service Professor and The Alvin Romansky Chair at Baylor College of Medicine where he was director of the National Center for Biomolecular Imaging,and has been active in the new cryoEM techniques allowing much higher-resolution structures of large molecular complexes such as viruses. His research interests are to determine 3-dimensional structures of biological nanomachines by electron cryomicroscopy and computer reconstruction and to relate the structures to their functional mechanisms. His structural technique complements to those of X ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. His laboratory is uniquely equipped with four intermediate voltage electron cryomicroscopes and supercomputer. His laboratory has pioneered various experimental and computational methods in biological cryo-EM. His group has determined cryo-EM structures of biological bundle, ion channel, viruses and chaperonins at unprecedented resolutions. His group has recently achieved the capability of tracing Ca backbone of protein components in several large molecular nanomachines using single particle cryo-EM without the aid of crystallography. Many of their structural investigations have produced not only novel structural informatics but also insightful functional mechanisms on protein folding and virus infection respectively. List of Key Publications : 1. Hryc CF, Chen DH, Afonine PV, Jakana J, Wang Z, Haase-Pettingell C, Jiang W, Adams PD, King JA, Schmid MF and Chiu W* (2017) Accurate model annotation of a near-atomic resolution cryo-EM map. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(12), 3103-3108. 2. Roh SH, Hryc CF, Jeong HH, Fei X, Jakana J, Lorimer GH and Chiu W* (2017) Subunit conformational variation within individual GroEL oligomers resolved by Cryo-EM. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201704725. 3. Wang Z, Fan G, Hryc CF, Blaza JN, Serysheva II, Schmid MF, Chiu W, Luisi BF and Du D (2017) An allosteric transport mechanism for the AcrAB-TolC multidrug efflux pump. eLife 6, e24905. 4. Murata K, Zhang Q, Gerardo Galaz-Montoya J, Fu C, Coleman ML, Osburne MS, Schmid MF, Sullivan MB, Chisholm SW and Chiu W (2017) Visualizing adsorption of cyanophage P-SSP7 onto marine Prochlorococcus. Scientific Reports, 7. 5. Fan G, Baker ML, Wang Z, Baker MR, Sinyagovskiy PA, Chiu W, Ludtke SJ and Serysheva II (2015) Gating machinery of InsP3R channels revealed by electron cryomicroscopy. Nature 527(7578), 336-341.