Congratulations to Wei-Jia Liu on winning the Silver Award in her IPMB summer internship final report! Well deserved! 🎉
Dr. Sreya Das joined the lab as a postdoctoral scientist.
Lab group photo at the IS-MPMI international congress in Cologne, Germany.
Congratulations to Hung-Yu Wang who successfully defended his PhD thesis today!
Congratulations to Juan Carlos Lopez-Agudelo on winning the 3-minute Thesis Competition at the 11th Asian Crop Science Association Conference!! 🎉
Glen Carlo Aldover joined the lab as a TIGP international internship student.
John Ryan Calicaran joined the lab as a TIGP-MBAS rotation student.
Dr. Ravi Shankar Kumar joined the lab as a postdoctoral scientist.
Congratulations to Juan Carlos Lopez-Agudelo on winning the IPMB Travel Grant Competition! Well deserved! 🎉
Dr. Enoch Lok Him Yuen joined the lab as a visiting researcher.
Yueh-Ning Swee joined the lab as a undergraduate internship student.
May Htet Aung joined the lab as a ressearch assistant.
Lab group photo at K-MPMI international symposium, Seoul, Korea.
Chih-Hang Wu has been selected as an EMBO Global Investigator!
For more information please visit:
https://www.embo.org/press-releases/eleven-group-leaders-join-the-embo-global-investigator-network/
https://www.embo.org/people/insights-for-increased-crop-protection/
Our group had an incredibly successful year at the 2024 Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists (TSPB) meeting!
Juan Carlos Lopez-Agudelo - Excellent Thesis Award
Yi-Feng Chen - 1st place in the 3-minute Flash Talk competition!
Hung-Yu Wang - Poster Award
Bing-Jen Chiang - Poster Award
Congratulations to Foong Jing Goh on receiving the 2024 Professor CY Lin Memorial Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Dissertation!
And Chih-Hang Wu on receiving the 2024 Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists!
Happy 80th to the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica!
Chih-Hang Wu has been honored with the Shang-Fa Yang Outstanding Young Scientist Award!
Our lab explaining plant disease and host resistance to the public during the 2024 Academia Sinica Openhouse.
Our paper on evolution of sensor-helper specificity in the NRC network is online in PLOS Genetics! Congratulations to Ching-Yi, Yu-Seng and many other involved! https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011402
Mr. Wei-Che Sun joined the lab as a TIGP-MBAS rotation student.
Our paper on the copper-inducible system in Nicotiana benthamiana is online in New Phytologist! Congratulations to Bing-Jen, Kuan-Yu and others!
Dr. Liang-Yu Hou joined the lab as a postdoc.
Ian Bien Oloc-Oloc joined the lab as a TIGP international internship student.
Two of our phylogenomics studies of NRC networks are now online in The Plant Cell.
The first one from Sakai et al taking about "Birth of the NRC networks": https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae154
The second one from Goh et al taking about "Expansion of the NRC networks": https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae179
Hao-Hsuan Kao joined the lab as an IPMB summer internship student.
Congratulations to Foong-Jing Goh who successfully defended his PhD thesis today!
Congratulations to Bing-Jen Chinag for winning the IPMB travel grant competition!
Farewell to Yu-Seng Huang. After three and half years as a research assistant in the CHWLab@IPMB, he is starting PhD in Max Planck Tubingen with Dr. Thorsten Langner.
Wen-Rong Hsiao joined the lab as a research assistant.
Congratulations to Ching-Yi Huang for winning the 2023 IPMB poster competition.
Farewell to He-Ping Liu who established a Golden Gate compatible split GAL4 RUBY assays for protein-protein interaction study during her summer internship. Very useful methods for our future works.
Lab day out. Shrimp fishing and bouldering.
Lab summer activity. Dinner and escape room together with some other friends from IPMB.
Kuan-Yu Lin and He-Ping Liu joined the lab as summer intern.
Sopio Tchabashvili joined the lab as a rotation PhD student
3rd Anniversary of the CHWLab @IPMBSinica. We went strawberry picking and visited Shenghsing Station in Miaoli.
Celebration of winter solstice and Christmas with rice balls and homemade stollen .
Our first lab retreat! We really enjoyed the hiking, hot spring, kayaking and sightseeing at the beautiful mountain and coast line at Hua-lien and Tai-tung.
Yi-Feng Chen and Bing-Jen Chiang joined the lab as research assistants
Yi-Feng Chen and Bing-Jen Chiang joined the lab as research assistants
Farewell to Kuan-Yu Lin who kick-started our synthetic biology project establishing an inducible gene expression system in N. benthamiana.
Our lab received the Emerging Young Scholar research grant (新秀學者計畫) from the MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology)! This is the most prestigious research grant for new group leaders in Taiwan.
Lab day out! Treasure hunt at Taipei City Zoo.
Dr. Wen-Chi Hu joined our lab as a postdoc.
The 2nd anniversary of the CHWLab@IPMB! The lab grew from 5 people to 8 people in the last year. We had a lab day out to the countryside in Yilan and then played escape room.
Annual Party of the PEM (Plant and Environmental Microbiology) group of IPMB! Our lab is hosting the event this year. Big thanks to Hung-yu (Wu lab), Ming-wei (Ku lab), Si-chong (Lai lab), Florensia (Ma lab), Hung-ju (Kuo lab) and Keng-min (Chu lab) for organizing the event.
Celebration of the AS Grand Challenge Project on Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.
Kui-Ting Lin joined the lab as a research assistant.
Chin-Wen Chang joined the lab as a research assistant.
Hung-Yu Wang joined the lab as a Ph.D. student
The 1st anniversary of the CHWLab@IPMB! We went to a hot pot restaurant for dinner and then played escape room. What a fun evening!
Christmas Party of the PEM (Plant and Environmental Microbiology) group of IPMB! Big thanks to Yu Wu (Lai lab), Xuan Lai (Lai lab), Tzu-Haw (Ku lab), Chin-Ting (Kuo lab), Foong-Jing (Wu lab), and Cuong (Ma lab) for organizing it.
The lab warming party of the CHWLab @IPMB Sinica! The remodeling was finally done and we invited everyone in the institute to join us the for celebration. Thanks everyone for coming to the party!
Visiting the Herbarium of Research Center for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica, for Ipomoea triloba specimens collected over the last few decades in Taiwan. We are intrigued by how the NLR networks expanded in wild relatives of sweet potato.
Farewell to Kari Huang and Sherry Su who have finished their internship in the CHWLab @IPMBSinica. They will join Dr. Li-Hung Chen's group at National Chung-Hsing University to continue their research career.
We had the first afternoon tea at our own lab space today.
Yu-Seng Huang joined the lab as a research assistant.
Lo-Ting Huang and Ting-Hsuan Su joined the lab as summer interns through the IPMB-Summer Undergraduate Internship Program. They are now both undergraduate students at National Chung-Hsing University.
Foong-Jing Goh joined the lab as a PhD student. He is now enrolled in the TIGP-MBAS program of Academia Sinica and National Chung-Hsing University.
Juan Carlos Lopez joined the lab as a research assistant. He was previously an RA in the tissue culture supporting team at The Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
Ching-Yi Huang joined the lab as a research assistant.
Chih-Hang Wu's Lab started at January 2020 in Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.