Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine,
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine
National Cheng Kung University
Chia-Wei Liou is a Ph.D. student in the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. He received his Master degree in the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).
Chia-Wei focus on the effects of high-dietary sugar on renal function and using Drosophila as an experimental model. After he joined Dr. Wei-Li Wu's lab in NCKU, he started to be trained with the techniques in neuroscience and received the knowledge of neuroscience and gut-brain axis. His thesis during Ph.D. program is to study the effects of gut metabolites in the brain to regulate emotional behaviors in mice.