Awards, Fellowships, Recognitions & Grants (amount in bracket)

• Plantae Fellow (2021-2022), American Society of Plant Biologists 

• AS-TIGP Research Performance fellowship – 2021; Academia Sinica, Taiwan (~2400 USD)

• Travel grant for IPMB Young Scholars – 2020; Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (not declared)

• Runner-up at IPMB Young Scholars research presentation – 2020; Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

• Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists (TSPB) travel grant – 2019; Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists, Taiwan (~2500 USD)

• Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP) fellowship – 2015; Academia Sinica and National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan (~27000 USD) 

Teaching, training and mentoring

Teaching: 

• Molecular and cellular biology for undergraduates at University of Miami, FL, USA

Training & Mentoring: 

• Mentored graduate students with their research proposal and presentation as senior graduate student, leading to their successful defense in qualifying exams. 

• Mentored PhD students in proposal writing, presentation and profile building.

• Trained and mentored undergraduate and masters student in laboratory and professional skills.

Society membership

• American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)

Technical Skills/Tools

• Animal cell culture

• Microbial culture & characterization

• BioRender

• Hairy root transformation

• Cloning, transformation

• Mushroom cultivation

• GraphPad Prism

• Co-immuno precipitation

• Plant tissue culture

• Mendley

• Fungal spore culture

• Plant physiology

• MS-office

• Gene & protein expression

• Hydroponic

• Phenotyping

• UPLC-data analysis

• PCR

• Western blot

• Confocal microscopy