DUKE MYCOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT
Faculty and Research

Heitman Lab Members

Yen-Ping Hsueh Post-Doctoral Fellow 315 CARL Building Box 3546 DUMC Durham, N.C. 27710 Phone: 919.684.2809 Fax: 919.684.5458 Email: yenping.hsueh@duke.edu

I completed my B.S. and M.S. degrees at National Taiwan University and came to Duke in the fall of 2003. I joined the Heitman lab in the summer of 2004 to pursue Ph.D. training, and I completed the requirements for that degree in spring 2008. I am primarily interested in the sex of Cryptococcus. My thesis is focused on the identification of the mating-type locus associated with recombination hotspots, the signaling pathways that control the sexual development of Cryptococcus, and the evolution of the mating-type system. Currently, I am continuing my research of these topics in the lab.