• Human and primate evolutionary genetics
  
• Evolution and development ("evo-devo")
  
• Molecular systematics
  

  Education

• B.A., May, 1991, Biochemistry and Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO.
• Ph.D., December, 1997, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Dissertation Advisor: Morris Goodman.
  

  Professional Positions Held

• September, 2001+. Assistant Professor, Departments of Genetics and Anthropology, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
• August, 2000-August, 2001. Postdoctoral Research Associate, FAS, Dept. of EEB, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
• February-June, 2000. Visting Group Leader in the Dept. of Evolutionary Genetics Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Leipzig, Germany.
• June, 1998-July, 2000. NSF/Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Evolution in Dr. Günter P. Wagner's laboratory, Dept. of EEB, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

  Reviewer of Manuscripts for Journals

  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  Genome Research
  JEZ Molecular Development and Evolution (member of Editorial Board, 2002-2005)
  American Journal of Physical Anthropology
  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Selected Publications

Chiu C-H, Hamrick MW. Evolution and development of the primate limb skeleton.  Evolutionary Anthropology, in press. 2001

Wagner GP, Chiu C-H. The tetrapod limb: A definition and a hypothesis on its origin, In: Origins of Organismal Form, Beyond the Gene Paradigm, eds. Newman S, Müller GB, MIT press, Cambridge, MA, in press. 2000

Hansen TF, Carter A, Chiu C-H. Gene conversion may aid adaptive peak shifts. J Theoret Biol 207: 495-511. 2000

Chiu C-H, Nonaka D, Xue L, Amemiya CT, Wagner GP. Evolution of Hoxa-11 in lineages phylogenetically positioned along the fin-limb transition. Mol Phyl Evol 17: 305-316. 2000

Wagner GP, Chiu C-H, Laubichler M. Developmental evolution as a mechanistic science: The inference from developmental mechanisms to evolutionary processes. Amer Zool 40: 819-831.

Chiu C-H, Gregoire L, Muniz JA, Gunucio DL, Lancaster WD, Goodman M. A model for the fetal recruitment of simian gamma-globin genes based on findings from two New World monkeys Cebus apella and Callithrix jacchus (Platyrrhini, Primates). JEZ Mol Dev Evol 205: 27-40. 1999

Page SL, Chiu C-H, Goodman M. Molecular phylogeny of Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae) as inferred from gamma-globin DNA sequences. Mol Phyl Evol 13: 348-359. 1997

Chiu C-H, Schneider H, Slightom J.L, Gumucio D.L, Goodman M. Dynamics of cis-regulatory evolution in primate beta-globin gene clusters: Cis-mediated acquisition of simian gamma fetal expression patterns. Gene 205: 47-57. 1996

Chiu C-H, Schneider H, Schneider MPC, Sampaio I, Meireles C, Slightom JL, Gumucio DL, Goodman M. Reduction of two functional gamma-globin genes to one: An evolutionary trend in New World monkeys (Infraorder Platyrrhini). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93: 6510-6515. 1996