PI: Weigang Qiu 

    A Brief Bio

    First, a few words about Dr Qiu's (very tricky) last name.  To slow down the inevitable "mutational meltdown" of the spelling of immigrant names in the U.S., he prefers his last name to be spelled as "Q-I-U", not the English convention of "Q-U-I".  For pronunciation, he prefers his last name to be pronounced as "Chiu" (as in "Chu-ba-ba" of the Star War character), not "Q", although his daughter has given up ever since she started elementary school and now calls herself "Grace Q".

    Dr Qiu was born and grew up in Shanghai, China.   He got his B. Sc. degree in Biochemistry from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 1986.  He held a Master's Degree in Biotechnology from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  He studied in Dr Daniel Dykhuizen's lab at State University of New York, Stony Brook and graduated in 1999 with a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution. He spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr Arlin Stolzfus's lab in CARB, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, specializing in evolutionary bioinformatics.  He started in Hunter College as an Assistant Professor of Biology in Fall, 2002.

   In science, Dr Qiu is interested in studying the microbial model of evolution and biodiversity.  He enjoys writing computer codes for visualization and analyses of evolutionary data.

   His non-science hobbies include playing cards, majong, volleyball, and classic guitar, reading Sherlock Holmes stories, and reading and composing classic Chinese poems.

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