Grants and Awards

Research grants

PI

• “Antimicrobial resistance genetic biomarkers: a pan-genome-based novel approach for pinpointing antimicrobial resistance biomarkers from bacterial genomic sequences”, Taiwan MOST MOST111-2221-E-038-023-MY3, 2022/08/01-2025/07/31 

• “Comprehensive mining and analyzing the effects of microbes on disease development through unsupervised microbial genome clustering tools”, Taiwan MOST 110-2221-E-038 -019 -MY3, 2021/08/01-2024/07/31.

• "A genome-based machine learning approach for mining the functional potentials of hypothetical genes and predicting bacterial antimicrobial-resistance phenotypes", Taiwan MoST 108-2628-E-038-002-MY3, 2019/08/01-2022/07/31.

• "Intelligent image recognition and classification using K-mer and Neural Network", Taipei Medical University-National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Joint Research Program, 108-TMU-NTUST-108-08, 2019/01/01-2019/12/31 (joint PI with Dr. Po-Ting Lin, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology).

• "Identifying and mining the hidden genetic components of microbial genomes using machine learning techniques", Taipei Medical University-National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Joint Research Program 107-TMU-NTUST-107-10, 2018/01/01-2018/12/31 (joint PI with Dr. Po-Ting Lin, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology).

• "A multi-omics approach for interpreting the functional potentials of uncharacterized bacteria in natural or man-made environments", Taiwan MoST 106-2218-E-038-002-MY2, 2017/03/01-2019/02/28.

Co-PI

• “A Comprehensive Survey of Metagenomes in the North-Western Pacific Ocean and Its Application on Detection of Ecological Function and Role of Mixotrophs”, Taiwan MOST 111-2119-M-001 -005-, 2022/05/01-2026/04/30 (with Dr. Sen-Lin Tang, Academia Sinica)

•  “Clinical prediction and pathogenesis pathway discovery to prevent idiopathic pregnancy diseases by deep learning algorithms on multi-country databases”, Taiwan MOST 110-2628-E-038-001-, 2021/08/01-2024/07/31 (with Dr. Emily Chia-Yu Su, Taipei Medical University)

• “Adaptive evolution of eel's opsin genes”, Taiwan MOST 109-2621-B-492-001-, 2020/08/01-2022/01/31 (with Dr. Fengyu Wang, Taiwan Ocean Research Institute).

• “An integrated multi-omic single-cell based atlas to translate Parabacteroides goldsteinii ameliorative effect and mechanism for COPD and lung cancer immuno-/metabolic-therapy”, Taiwan MoST 109-2327-B-182-001-, 2020/05/01-2024/04/30 (with Dr. Hsin-Chih Lai, Chang Gung University).

• "Whole genome sequencing, comparative transcriptomics and phylogenomics on various environmental adaptations of Taiwanese freshwater gobies", Taiwan MoST 108-2621-B-001-002-, 2019/08/01-2020/07/31 (with Dr. Tzi-Yuen Wang, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica).

• "Establishment of Oral and Gut Microbiome-based Risk Prediction Machine Learning Model for Cardiovascular Disease", Taiwan MoST 108-2314-B-002-032-, 2019/04/01-2020/03/31 (with Dr. Wei-Kai Wu, National Taiwan University Hospital).

• "Pharmacological studies of morphine in hMOR+; mMOR-/- mice", Taiwan MoST 108-2320-B-400-014-MY3, 2019/08/01-2022/07/31 (with Dr. Shiu-Hwa Yeh, National Health Research Institute).

• "Multi-omics mechanistic study on Parabacteroides goldsteinii's amelioration of chronic inflammation related diseases: obesity, COPD and colitis", Taiwan MoST 108-2321-B-182-002-, 2019/01/01-2019/12/31 (with Dr. Hsin-Chih Lai, Chang Gung University).

• “Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Positioning Optimization System Based on X-Ray Scan Imaging of Multi-Layered Printed Circuit Boards”, Taiwan MOST 107-2622-E-011-031-CC3, 2018/11/01-2019/10/31 (with Dr. Po-Ting Lin, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology).

• "Research and Verification of Arbitrary Object 3D Geometry Recognition and Automatic Planning of Soft Mechanism Optimal Gripping Method Based on K-Mer Artificial Intelligence", Taiwan MoST 107-2221-E-011-088-, 2018/08/01-2019/07/31 (with Dr. Po-Ting Lin, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology).

• "Molecular interactions between HSM H1 polysaccharides, the Parabacteroides goldsteinii and the obese animal hosts" Taiwan MoST 107-2321-B-182-002-, 2018/01/01-2018/12/31 (with Dr. Hsin-Chih Lai, Chang Gung University).

Awards

• Best Oral Presentation Award, 20th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, 2022. 

• Best Teaching Award, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, 2021.

• 科技部優秀年輕學者研究計畫 (MoST Exceptional Young Scientist Grant), 2019.

• Fine Creation Award, 4th SPINTECH Technology Thesis Award (co-advisor; advised with Dr. Po-Ting Lin), 2018.

• Best Paper Award (Gold), The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB), 2017.

• 科技部延攬特殊優秀人才 (MoST Special Talent Recruitment), 2017.

• 科技部延攬特殊優秀人才 (MoST Special Talent Recruitment), 2016.

• Outstanding Research Contribution Award, Joint BioEnergy Institute, 2016.

• Young Scientist Travel Grant, 6th Soil Metagenomics Annual Meeting, 2014.

• Travel Fellowship, 11th European Conference on Computational Biology, 2012.

• Travel Grant, Taiwan Ministry of Education, 2010

Students' award

• Duyen Thi Do, Travel fellowship for The 22nd International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2023), 2023. 

• Duyen Thi Do, Best Oral Presentation, 2022 International Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics (ISEGB2022), 2022. 

• Shu-Ping Lin and Wei-Hao Lu, Fine Creation Award, 4th SPINTECH Technology Thesis Award (co-advisor; advised with Dr. Po-Ting Lin), 2018.

Students' research grant

• Hsuan-Lin Her, Taiwan MOST undergraduate research grant no. 107-2813-C-038- 019-B, 2018/07/01-2019/02/28.

• Hsuan-Lin Her, Taiwan MOST undergraduate research grant no. 106-2813-C-038-010-E, 2017/07/01-2018/02/28.