billy tsai

Professor

Professor (2013-present)

University of Michigan Medical School
 

Corydon Ford Collegiate Professor (2012-present)

University of Michigan Medical School

Visiting Scholar (2009-2010)

University of California, Berkeley

Associate Professor (tenured) (2008-2013)

University of Michigan Medical School

Assistant Professor (2003-2008)

University of Michigan Medical School

Post-doctoral Fellow (1999-2003)

Harvard Medical School

Ph.D. (1994-1999)

Harvard University

M. Sc. (1993-1994)

University of California, Los Angeles

B. Sc. (1989-1993)

University of California, Los Angeles

Billy Tsai has been a member of the Cell and Developmental Biology faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School since 2003. He received his Bachelor of Science degree (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) and Master of Science degree at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his doctorate in molecular and cellular biology from Harvard University in 1999 and then completed a 3.5 year Damon-Runyon post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He currently serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Virology, on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Viruses, and as a permanent NIH study section member.

Within the laboratory, Dr. Tsai has mentored numerous graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, as well as undergraduate researchers. Within the department, Dr. Tsai is the course director of a graduate-level cell biology course taught to first-year medical school graduate students. He also chairs the development committee and is a member of the curriculum committee. Outside the laboratory, Billy enjoys spending time with his family and sports.

University of Michigan Medical School

Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

Biomedical Science Research Building

Room 3043, 109 Zina Pitcher place

Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2200

T: +1 734 764 4301

F: +1 734 763 1166

M: btsai@umich.edu

Tsai  Lab