Pending Grant Proposals
NSTC
The IL-1 axis is an ancestral core pathway of metazoan innate immunity
NSTC
The evolutionary conservation of secretory immune cell biology
Currently Funded Grants
Academia Sinica Grand Challenge Program Seed Grant (coPI) (01/2026-12/2027)
Tracing the evolutionary origin of vertebrate adaptive immunity: Insights from analyzing the immune cell repertoire of a basal chordate
Completed Grants
CMRP (12/2023-11/2025)
Human interleukin-17D signaling and the evolution of innate anti-bacterial immune responses
CGURP (2023-2024)
Innate immune tolerance is established by the co-evolution of TLRs and commensal bacteria
MOST 108-2320-B-182-018-MY3 Aug 2019 - Jul 2022
The molecular characterization of evolutionarily conserved immune cell populations and immune mediators in invertebrates
CMRP (CMRPD1J0251 /2 /3) Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
The Evolutionary Origins of Cell-Cell Communication during Innate Immune Responses
MOST 107-2320-B-182-002- Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
The origins of AID/APOBEC-like deaminases in innate and adaptive immunity
MOST 106-2320-B-182-011- Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Characterization of evolutionarily conserved AID/APOBEC-like DNA/RNA deaminases as mediators of invertebrate immunity
NSC 102-2320-B-182-001 -MY3 Aug 2013 - Jul 2016
Targeting of AID-mediated immunoglobulin gene diversification by mutation enhancer elements
CMRP (CORPD1F0051 /2 /3) Jul 2016 - Dec 2019
Novel approaches to immunoglobulin repertoire sequencing and the generation of monoclonal antibodies
CMRP (CMRPD1F0421 /2 /3) Jul 2016 - Jun 2019
Identification and characterization of stem cell populations important for innate immune cell homeostasis in long-lived invertebrates
CMRP (CMRPD1C0241 /2 /3) Mar 2013 - Feb 2016
Analysis of the immune system of a long-lived invertebrate at the transition to adaptive immunity