[Event] 2026.03.13-16 Tzu-Ling and Ting-Hsuan attended the 67th JSPP, JTYPP2026, and JTPB2026 and presented their poster in Tokyo.
[Honor] 2026.03.04 Congratulations to Tzu-Ling for receiving a conference travel grant from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) to attend the 67th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists in 2026!
[Event] 2026.02.24 Our lab held a farewell party for Ying-Yang. We wish her all the best in her next journey!
[Honor] 2026.02.23 Congratulations to Tzu-Ling on her admission to the direct-entry PhD program and for receiving the College of Life Science Direct-Entry PhD Scholarship!
[Event] 2026.01.22-24 Our lab participated in MiTalk10 Young Scientist Workshop.
[Honor] 2025.11.26 Congratulations to Tzu-Ling for receiving a conference travel grant from the Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists to attend the 67th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists in 2026!
[Honor] 2025.11.21 Congratulations to Ting-So on the successful grant of his patent on a far-red-light-inducible promoter!
[Honor] 2025.11.08 Congratulations to Tzu-Ling for winning the Poster Award (佳作獎) at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists!
[Event] 2025.11.07-08 Tzu-Ling attended the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists and presented her poster.
[Honor] 2025.10.18 Ting-Hsuan attended the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology (TSME) and received the Poster Award (優秀獎). Congratulations!
[Publish] 2025.09.22 Our work has been published in iScience! Check out the new algal isolates that can grow in far-red light! (link)
[Honor] 2025.08.02 Congratulations to Tzu-Tien for winning the Poster Awards at the 29th Conference on Bacteriology! Well done!
[Event] 2025.07.31-08.02 Our lab participated in the 29th Conference on Bacteriology in College of Public Health, National Taiwan University.
[Honor] 2025.05.22 Congratulations to Ting-Hsuan on receiving the Tsuei’s Memorial Scholarship from the Taiwan Health Foundation!
[Publish] 2025.05.20 Our latest paper is out in PNAS! Check out the structure and evolution of photosystem I in Anthocerotibacter panamensis! (link) (台大焦點新聞)(PanScitw)
[Honor] 2025.05.19 Tzu-Tien won a Merit Award at the Life Science Poster Competition. Congratulations!
[Honor] 2025.04.29 Congratulations to Ming-Yang for receiving the Dr. Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (吳大猷先生紀念獎) from the National Science and Technology Council! (link)
[Honor] 2025.01.17 Congratulations to Ying-Yang Li for winning Third Place in the Poster Awards at the MiTalk9! Well done!
[Event] 2025.01.16-17 Han-Wei Jiang delivered a talk at the MiTalk9 Young Scientist Workshop, while Yu-Ting Huang, Ting-Hsuan Chan, and Ying-Yang Li presented their posters.
[Event] 2024.09.18-09.21 Ming-Yang presented an invited talk. Yu-Ting and Ting-Hsuan showcased their posters at the 2nd AOICP in Kobe, Japan.
[Event] 2024.08.17-08.23 Ying-Yang presented her poster at the 19th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME) held in Cape Town, South Africa.
[Honor] 2024.08.24 Ting-So won Poster Awards at The 28th Conference on Bacteriology. Congratulations!
[Publish] 2024.08.09 Our work has been published in mShpere! Join us to see what happens in the coculture of different types of cyanobacteria! (link)
[Event] 2024.07.31 Welcome Shiang Lin 林詳, Yu-Ting Huang 黃榆婷, Zih-Yun Wang 王姿云, and Tzu-Ling Chen 陳梓綾 joined our lab as Master Students!
[Event] 2024.07.01 Welcome Chun-An Chen 陳均安 and Chia-Hong Sun 孫佳宏 joined our lab as Summer Intern Students!
[Honor] 2024.05.22 Yu-Ting won an excellent poster award (傑出獎) at the Life Science poster competition. Congratulations!
[Honor] 2024.04.10 Ying-Yang was selected for the ISME Student Travel Grant to ISME 19th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology in South Africa. Congratulations!
[Event] 2024.01.18-19 MiTalk8 Young Scientist Workshop
[Event] 2024.02.01 Dr. Chen Chun-Hung teaches GenoMon board game tutorials.
[Publish] 2023.12.04 Our work has been published in Nature Communications! We reveal a novel “paddle-shaped” phycobilisome structure in Anthocerotibacter panamensis. Join us to see the evolution and diversification of light-harvesting strategies. (link)
[Honor] 2023.11.22 Shiang Lin and Yu-Ting got admitted to the Life Science Master programs at NTU. Yu-Ting was also admitted to the Plant Biology Master's program. Good Job!
[Event] 2023.10.16 The Ho Lab hosted the first Taiwan-Japan Joint Seminar on Photosynthesis Research at NTULS. Thanks, Dr. Keisuke Yoshida, Dr. Han-Yi Fu, and Ko Imaizumi, for organizing the event with us. Thanks to the support from the LS Department and College, our Japanese friends had an unforgettable experience in Taiwan.
[Honor] 2023.10.13 Ting-Shuo won the best plant science master thesis award from the Taiwan Society of Plant Biologists (台灣植物學會/TSPB)! Congratulations!
[Publish] 2023.09.30 Our work has been published in Molecular Ecology Resources! Cyanobacteria using far-red light are everywhere, and we can use 16S rRNA gene sequences to identify them (link).
[Event] 2023.09.11 Welcome Tzu-Tien Hung 洪子恬 joined our lab as a Master Student!
[Honor] 2023.09.01 Ting-So was selected for oral presentation and full travel support to ICTPPO in Japan. Congratulations!
[Event] 2023.07.01 Welcome Ting-Hsuan Chan 詹庭軒 joined our lab as a Master Student!
[Honor] 2023.06.28 Yu-Ting was awarded the NTU Life Science Summer Internship Program! Congratulations!
[Honor] 2023.06.19 Shiang was awarded the MOST undergraduate research project! Congratulations!
[Honor] 2023.05.22 Ting-Shuo won an Excellent Poster Award (傑出獎) at the Life Science poster competition and Dean's Award (院長獎) for his Master's Degree. Congratulations!
[Publish] 2023.03.30 Our work has been published in ACS Synthetic Biology! Join us to learn how to use light-controlled gene expression for application (link).
[Honor] 2023.01.13 Ting-So and Ting-Shuo won Poster Awards at the MiTalk7 Young Scientist Workshop. Congratulations!
[Event] 2022.12.06 Welcome Yu-Ting Huang 黃榆婷 joined our lab and started her undergraduate research.
[Honor] 2022.10.02 Congratulations! Han-Wei won an Excellent Poster Award at the 2022 post-pandemic era for frontier plant science and sustainable agriculture conference!
[Honor] 2022.08.27 Congratulations! Kai-Wen, Ting-So, Ting-Shuo, and Jui-Tse all won poster awards at The 26th Conference on Bacteriology!
[Honor] 2022.08.17 Congratulations that Kai-Wen passed his Master's defense!
[Event] 2022.08.03 Welcome Hung-Po Chen 陳泓伯 joined our lab as a Master Student!
[Event] 2022.07.11 Welcome Ying-Yang Li 李映漾 joined our lab as a Master Student!
[Honor] 2022.07.03 Ming-Yang, Ting-So, and Ting-Shuo won Support for online attendance at the International Congress on Photosynthesis Research. Congratulations!
[Publish] 2022.06.21 Our work has been published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology! Come to see a model system for studying far-red light photoacclimation in quartz sand (link).
[Event] 2022.06.20 Welcome Shiang Lin 林詳 joined the lab as a Summer Student!
[Honor] 2022.05.13 Kai-Wen won an excellent poster award (傑出獎) at the Life Science poster competition and Dean's Award (院長獎) for his Master's Degree. Congratulations! (link)
[Publish] 2022.02.09 Ming-Yang's work with the Hunter, Bryant, and Rutherford groups has been published in Science Advances (link)! Join us to figure out the fantastic organization of photosystems in the thylakoid membrane.
[Event] 2022.01.21 Welcome Ting-Hsuan Chan joined our lab and started undergraduate research.
[Honor] 2022.01.20 Jui-Tse, Kai-Wen, and Ting-Shuo won Presentation Awards (報告傑出獎、報告優秀獎) at MiTalk6 Young Scientist Workshop. Congratulations!
[Event] 2021.12.02 Welcome Jui-Tse Ko 柯叡澤 joined our lab as an R&D Alternative Serviceman. Welcome on board!
[Publish] 2021.11.19 Ming-Yang collaborates with Bryant and Brudvig groups on publishing two back-to-back articles in Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations on the excellent work done by Chris! Now we have solved the Cryo-EM structures of photosystem I and photosystem II in far-red light in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7335 (PSI) (PSII) (News article).
[Publish] 2021.11.11 Our invited method article has been published in Journal of Visualized Experiments (link) (video). Join us to learn how to purify phycobilisome in cyanobacteria!
[Honor] 2021.08.20 Ting-Shuo won the Best Poster Award at The 25th Conference on Bacteriology (細菌學研討會). Congratulations!
[Publish] 2021.07.08 Our collaborative research with the Li group went on ScienceDirect Newsletter (link)!
[Event] 2021.07.01 Welcome Ting-Shuo Nien and Ting-So Liu 劉庭碩 joined the lab as Master students. Welcome, Ting-Shuo and Ting-So!
[Honor] 2021.06.30 Ting-Shuo won the MOST undergraduate research award (科技部大專學生研究計畫研究創作獎) and Dean's Award for Undergraduate Thesis (學士論文院長獎)! Congratulations! (link)
[Honor] 2021.06.02 Our publication was posted on NTU e-Newsletter & NTUHIGHLIGHTS! Join us to learn about the Evolution of Cyanobacteria (link) (link)!
[Honor] 2021.05.28 Ting-Shuo won a poster award (優等獎) at the Life Science poster competition! Congratulations!
[Publish] 2021.05.13 Our collaborative work with the Li group at Cornell has been published in Current Biology! It is not a fossil, but you can learn Photosynthesis Evolution by this odd little cyanobacterium (50 days' free access).
[Honor] 2021.04.20 Ting-Shuo passed his Undergraduate Thesis Defense. Congratulations!
[Event] 2021.03.26 Ming-Yang gave a talk on Environmental Seminar at the Global Change Research Centre, NTU (link).
[Honor] 2021.03.11 Ming-Yang gave a talk at the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at NTU (link).
[Event] 2021.02.04 The Ho Lab had the first joint meeting with Dr. Hsiu-An Chu's (朱修安) group at IPMB, Academia Sinica.
[Honor] 2021.01.12 Ming-Yang presented at Scisalon (科學史沙龍)! Join us to learn what cyanobacteria are and why are them important to us (link).
[Publish] 2020.11.19 Ming-Yang, Croce group, and Bryant group published an article in Chem. (50 days' free access) Congratulations to Martijn! It is a fantastic work showing how low-energy Chl f molecules transfer energy to the high-energy reaction center in photosystem I.
[Honor] 2020.11.18 Ting-Shuo Nien 粘庭碩 got admitted as the FIRST PLACE in both Life Science and Plant Biology Master programs at NTU. Good Job Ting-Shuo!
[Honor] 2020.10.18 Ke-Feng won a poster award at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology. Congratulations to Ke-Feng!
[Event] 2020.09.01 Han-Wei Jiang 江漢威 joined the lab as a Postdoctoral researcher. Han-Wei got his PhD in Plant Biology at National Taiwan University and worked for two and half years at The University of Texas at Austin as a Postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Han-Wei!
[Publish] 2020.07.24 Ming-Yang and Don published a book chapter discussing Long Wavelength Pigments in Photosynthesis. (link) Join us to learn the photosynthesis beyond visible light!
[Event] 2020.07.01 Kai-Wen Chen and Hsin-Hung Teng joined the lab as Master students. Welcome on board!
[Honor] 2020.06.19 Ting-Shuo Nien 粘庭碩 was awarded a MOST undergraduate research project! Congratulations to Ting-Shuo!
[Publish] 2020.04.17 Ming-Yang, Croce group, and Bryant group published an article in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. (link) Congratulations to Martijn! Join us to learn how the insertion of Chl f in photosystem I and be helpful for energy harvesting.
[Honor] 2020.03.06 Kai-Wen Chen 陳楷文 got admitted to the Master's program at NTU Life Science. Congratulations to Kai-Wen!
[Publish] 2020.02.05 Ming-Yang, Bryant group, Fromme group, and Globeck group published an article in Science Advances. (news release) (link) Congratulations to Chris! Come to check out the importance of chlorophyll f in photosystem I.
[Event] 2020.01.20 The Ho lab celebrated Chinese New Year at Nice Thai.
[Publish] 2020.01.01 Ming-Yang and Bryant's group published an article in Photosynthesis Research! (link) Congratulations to Gavin, who was my mentee at Penn State. He did a great job in initiating this project. This work is helpful for scientists to find out what is chlorophyll d synthase.
[Event] 2019.12.01 The Ho lab finished basic renovation for running research.
[Event] 2019.12.01 Ke-Feng Wu 吳克峯 joined the lab as a Master student!
[Event] 2019.10.01 Pa Yu Chen 陳珮瑜 joined the lab as a research assistant!
[Event] 2019.09.25 Qian Hui Gan 顏芊蕙 started working as an undergraduate assistant in the lab.
[Event] 2019.09.23 Kai-Wen Chen 陳楷文 started undergraduate research in the lab.
[Event] 2019.09.16 Ting-Shuo Nien 粘庭碩 started undergraduate research in the lab.
[Publish] 2019.08.14 Ming-Yang, Bryant group, Blankenship group, and Hunter group published an article in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta! (link) This is the first work published after Ming-Yang started his new position in Taiwan. Join us to learn the energy transfer in cyanobacteria in far-red light.
[Honor] 2019.08.01 Ming-Yang received Taiwan's MOST Young Scholar Fellowship for the Einstein Program (愛因斯坦計畫) for 5 years from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
[Honor] 2019.08.01 Ming-Yang was awarded as a Yushan Young Scholar (玉山青年學者) for 5 years from the Ministry of Education.
[Event] 2019.08.01 Ming-Yang starts a new position as an assistant professor at National Taiwan University, Department of Life Science.