Bacteriology laboratory
Why Microbiology ?
Lab News:
2024-11-05 CY was invited to peer review a manuscript for the journal "Communications Biology".
2024-11-04 Congratulations to Alice on the acceptance of her paper published in "J Infect Public Health".
Title: Molecular characterization of colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates and their conjugative mcr-carrying plasmids.
2024-10-21 Congratulations to our collaborator Prof. Liao and Andrea on the acceptance of their paper published in "Talanta".
Title: An Integrated Platform for Investigating Drug-Microbial Interactions to Support Pharmacomicrobiomics Studies. Tai YH*, Kao CY*, Zhang YP, Chiou YJ, Chiu HH, Thuy TTD, Liao HW. (*equal contribution).
2024-10-18 Congratulations to Pekkee for receiving an award in the "2024 Outstanding Research Award for Infectious Disease Prevention for undergraduate and graduate students", presented by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the National Taiwan University Center for Infection Control and Prevention Research and Education.
2024-10-13 CY was invited to peer review a manuscript for the journal "Current Research in Microbial Sciences".
2024-10-07 Congratulations to Pekkee and Jean on the acceptance of their paper published in "Int J Antimicrobial Agents".
Emergence of extensively drug-resistant hypervirulent Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from patients with bacteremia: bacterial phenotype and virulence analysis Chen PK, Liu CY, Kuo HY, Lee YT, Liu YH, Zhang YZ, Kao CY. Int J Antimicrob Agents.
2024-10-05 CY was invited as the moderator of the 1st Symposium on Microbiome and Microbiome-Based Therapeutics (SMMT).
2024-09-14 CY was asked to peer review a manuscript for the journal "BMC Microbiology".
2024-08-24 Congratulations to Jazon for winning second place in the Applied Microbiology poster presentation at the 28th Bacteriology Symposium in 2024! Andrea and Alice also received the Popular Poster Award.
2024-08-13 CY was asked to peer review a manuscript for the journal "Archives of Microbiology".
2024-08-05 CY was asked to peer review a manuscript for the journal "Beneficial Microbes".
2024-07-24 CY was asked to peer review a manuscript for the journals "International Journal of Infectious Diseases" and "Microbial Pathogenesis".
2024-07-23 Congratulations to our collaborator Prof. Chuang on the acceptance of his paper published in "Int Urol Nephrol". CY is the co-author of this paper.
Title: Antibacterial effects and mechanism of action of Low Energy Shock Waves on uropathogenic E. coli investigated by in vitro and in vivo cystitis rat model.
2024-07-02 CY was asked to peer review a manuscript for the journals "Gut Pathogens", "Current Microbiology" and "Virulence".
2024-06-25 Congratulations to Tina and Claudia on passing the NSTC Undergraduate Research Project Application!!!!!
2024-06-20 We welcome undergraduate student Tian-Qi to join our lab.
2024-06-12 Congratulations to Khoa on the acceptance of his paper published in "Small". He is the second author on the paper.
Title: Defect Engineered Bi2Te3 Nanosheets with Enhanced Haloperoxidase Activity for Marine Antibiofouling.
2024-06-06 Congratulations to Carl and Mira on winning the award for poster presentation at "2024 Annual Academic Seminar-Yang Ming Campus (112)".
2024-06-01 Congratulations to Iris, Ella, Eva, Jean, and Tina, on the acceptance of "The New Southbound Policy: Overseas Internship Program" from the Ministry of Education, Taiwan.
2024-05-24 We welcome international student Aditi from India to join our lab.
2024-05-24 CY received the "Outstanding Teaching Award" from the College of Life Sciences for the 112th academic year.
2024-05-22 CY was asked to peer review a manuscript for the "Food & Function."
2024-04-26 CY was asked to peer review a manuscript for the "Journal of Ovarian Research."
2024-04-26 CY has been invited as a Part-time Consultant at Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
2024-04-17 Congratulations to PK for receiving NSTC and NYCU funding to attend the 2024 ECCMID Clinical Microbiology Conference in Spain!
2024-04-04 Congratulations to Andrea, Ella, and Anna on the acceptance of their abstract for poster presentation at "The 14th Asian Conference on Lactic Acid Bacteria (14th ACLAB)". They will attend the conference in Thailand this May 29-31!
2024-04-03 Congratulations to our collaborator Prof. Teng on the acceptance of his paper published in "BMC Microbiology". CY is the co-author of this paper.
Title: Peptidoglycan endopeptidase MepM of uropathogenic Escherichia coli contributes to competitive fitness during urinary tract infections.
2024-04-02 Congratulations to Carl, PK, and Andrea on the acceptance of their paper published in "Microbiology Spectrum".
Title: First report of the chromosomal integration of carbapenemase gene blaIMP-19 in Acinetobacter baumannii AB322: the legacy of integron in phage-plasmid?
2024-03-29 We welcome undergraduate students Kim and Sam to join our lab.
2024-03-14 We welcome undergraduate students Rachel, Mark, Yvonne, Mori, and Cookie to join our lab to investigate fascinating bacteriology.
2024-02-29 Congratulations to Andrea and Ella on their paper has been accepted by BMC Microbiology.
The title of the paper is "Characterization of the broad-spectrum antibacterial activity of bacteriocin-like inhibitory substance-producing probiotics isolated from fermented foods" with authors Thuy TTD, Lu HF, Bregente CJB, Huang FCA, Tu PC, Kao CY.
2024-02-15 We are pleased to welcome KiKi, Alonso, and Michelle to our lab this February.
2024-02-09 Congratulations to Pekkee on the acceptance of her abstract for poster presentation at the 34th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). She will attend the conference in Spain this April 27-30!
2024-02-02 Congratulations to PK and Andrea on the acceptance of their paper published in "J Microbiol Immunol Infect".
Title: A 19-year longitudinal study to characterize carbapenem-nonsusceptible Acinetobacter isolated from patients with bloodstream infections and the contribution of conjugative plasmids to carbapenem resistance and virulence. Chen PK*, Lee YT*, Liu CY*, Anh K, Thuy TTD, Wu JJ, Liao CH, Huang YT, Chen YC, Kao CY. (*equal contribution). (SCI, IF: 7.4, Ranking: 20/135 Microbiology).
2024-01-17 Congratulations to Iris for being awarded the National Science and Technology Council Graduate Research Fellowship (3-year PhD scholarship). Also, congratulations to Ella for being awarded a 4-year scholarship sponsored by our collaborative biotech company and the Ministry of Education!
2024-01-17 Congratulations to Jazon on the acceptance of his paper published in "J Microbiol Immunol Infect".
Title: Molecular characterization of lugdunin inactivation mechanisms and their association with Staphylococcus lugdunensis genetic types. J Microbiol Immunol Infect.
2024-01-10 CY was promoted to Associate Professor!!
2024-01-03 Congratulations to Alice, Sophie, Iris, Carl, and Mira, on the acceptance of their paper published in "J Infect Public Health".
Title: A longitudinal epidemiology study of fluoroquinolone-nonsusceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae reveals an increasing prevalence of qnrB and qnrS in Taiwan.
2023-12-15 CY was invited to give a talk at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University.
2023-12-06 Congratulations to JZ !
https://alumni.usa.edu.ph/triumph-in-microbiology-mr-jazon-harl-d-hidrosollo-takes-home-best-research-poster-award-at-the-2023-taiwan-society-for-microbiology-annual-scientific-conference/?fbclid=IwAR2Td-5Zb5xj_WFvU2ch5xh5F8LmKtL9QIqMGx3oY0kQ9nTemfMA-Mas8ss
2023-12-03 Congratulations to Pekkee (Clinical Microbiology), Jazon (Clinical Microbiology), and Eva (Basic Microbiology) for winning the poster paper competition at the 2023 Taiwan Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting.
2023-11-25 Congratulations to Alice and Pekkee, they won the graduates' 3-min research talk competition awards.
2023-11-01 Congratulations to Alice on winning the Professor Yan Zhi-Zhong (the 2nd Dean of College of Medicine, National Taiwan University) Scholarship.
https://www.mc.ntu.edu.tw/ntucm/Fpage.action?muid=548&fid=284&l=en_US
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=832289502236058&set=a.496584375806574
2023-10-31 CY was awarded 2023 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Research Reward Subsidies (2023 Aug to 2025 Jul).
2023-10-21 CY was elected as the Director of Taiwan Testing and Quality Assurance Society (TTQAS).
2023-10-21 Congratulations to Alice and Andrea on winning the poster competition at "2023 Taiwan Testing and Quality Assurance Society (TTQAS) annual meeting ".
2023-10-14 Inauguration conference of the Asia Pacific Microbiota Consortium (APMC).
https://health.tvbs.com.tw/medical/342605
2023-10-14 CY was invited to give a talk at the 25th Annual Meeting of Antimicrobial Resistance in Taiwan: Artificial Intelligence and Innovative Technology.
2023-09-06 We welcome Linh to join the lab as a graduate student!
2023-08-31 CY was invited to review a paper for the journal "BMC Genomics".
2023-08-29 Congratulations to Jean, Carl, Alice, Pekkee, Mira, Andrea, and Jazon, on the acceptance of their paper published in "Epidemiol and Infect".
Title: A 24-year longitudinal study of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from patients with bacteremia and urinary tract infections reveals the association between capsular serotypes, antibiotic resistance, and virulence gene distribution.
2023-08-25 Congratulations to Carl, PK, and Mira, on winning the poster competition at "2023 27th Bacteriology Conference".
2023-08-25 Congratulations to Jean and Carl on the acceptance of their paper published in "Infection, Genetics and Evolution".
Title: Characterization of uropathogenic Escherichia coli phylogroups associated with antimicrobial resistance, virulence factor distribution, and virulence-related phenotypes.
2023-08-23 News interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcEcuo4Bfak
https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E7%99%8C%E7%97%87%E5%B9%B4%E8%BC%95%E5%8C%96-20-34%E6%AD%B2%E7%BD%B9%E7%99%8C%E7%8E%87%E5%89%B5%E6%96%B0%E9%AB%98-110338706.html
2023-08-17 CY was assigned as Associate Director of Microbiota Research Center (College of Medicine, NYCU).
2023-07-28 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "American Journal of Infectious Control".
2023-07-21 Congratulations to Jazon on the acceptance of his paper published in "Microbiology Spectrum".
Title: Lugdunin production and activity in Staphylococcus lugdunensis bloodstream isolates are associated with its genotypes.
2023-07-14 Welcome on board !! Chris !! (Intern from Malaysia).
2023-07-11 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "Communications Medicine".
2023-06-29 CY was invited to review paper for the journals "Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance " and "Current Microbiology".
2023-06-28 Congratulations to Alice on her acceptance of NSTC funding to participate in the 19th The Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infection (APCCMI) in Seoul !
2023-06-20 Congratulations to Pekkee on her acceptance of MOE Taiwan Scholarship and elite PhD student Scholarship.
2023-06-19 Congratulations to Sophie on the acceptance of MOST College Student Research Funding !!
2023-06-06 Congratulations to Alice, PK, and Nini, on winning the honorable mention award for oral presentation at "2023 Annual Academic Seminar-Yang Ming Campus".
2023-05-10 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "Nature Microbiology".
2023-05-08 UST BEATS Group, NYCU conduct collaborative research visit to address antimicrobial resistance in PH, Taiwan.
2023-05-03 CY was invited to give a talk at the 1st International Scientific Conference on Microbiology (Mongolia).
2023-04-22 CY was assigned as the Secretary-General of Taiwan Microbiota Consortium.
2023-04-14 Congratulations to Mira on the nomination of her poster in APCCMI for the Best poster presentation award.
2023-03-24 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "Futurel Microbiology".
2023-03-24 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases".
2023-03-23 Congratulations to Mira, Pekkee, Andrea, and Alice, on the acceptance of their abstracts for poster presentations at the 19th The Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infection (APCCMI). They will attend the conference in Seoul, Korea from 6 - 8 July !!
2023-03-21 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "AIMS Microbiology".
2023-03-11 Congratulations to Jean and Pekkee on the acceptance of their paper published in "BMC Microbiology".
Title: Characterization of host and Escherichia coli strains causing recurrent urinary tract infections based on molecular typing.
2023-03-09 Welcome on board !! Tina & 芊芊 !! (Undergraduate student).
2023-03-03 Congratulations to Alice on the acceptance of her paper published in "Talanta" !!!!
Title: Sequential isolation of metabolites and lipids from a single sample to achieve multiomics by using TRIzol reagent.
2023-02-26 Congratulations to Alice, Andrea, and Mira on the acceptance of their paper published in "Infection, Genetics, and Evolution".
Title: Genome-based characterization of conjugative IncHI1B plasmid carrying carbapenemase genes blaVIM-1, blaIMP-23, and truncated blaOXA-256 in Klebsiella pneumoniae NTU107224.
2023-02-24 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal".
2023-02-17 Congratulations to our collaborator Prof. Hsieh on the acceptance of his paper published in "Pharmaceutics". CY is the co-author of this paper.
Title: Licochalcone A Suppresses Renal Cancer Cell Proliferation and Metastasis by Engagement of Sp1-Mediated LC3 Expression (https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/15/2/684)
2023-02-17 Welcome on board !! Claudia !! (Undergraduate student).
2023-02-14 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "Food & Function".
2023-02-12 CY was invited to give a talk at the 19th Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (APCCMI) (2023-07-06 ~ 2023-07-08, Seoul, Korea).
https://www.apccmi2023.com/program/meet_02.php
2023-02-03 CY was invited to give a talk at the 6th Annual Conference of Taiwan Microbiota Consortium (ACTMC) (2023-04-22, TVGH, Taipei, Taiwan).
https://www.microbiota.org.tw/Activity/detail/58
2023-02-02 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "Life Sciences".
2023-01-30 Congratulations to Alice, Andrea, and Jean on the acceptance of their abstracts for poster presentations at the 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). They will attend the conference in Denmark this April 15-18 !!
2022-12-18 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "Journal of Fungi".
2022-12-17 CY was assigned as the Secretary-General of Taiwan Society of Microbiology.
2022-12-15 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology".
2022-12-15 CY was invited to give a talk at TVGH (Division of Gasteroenterology).
Title: Roles of Helicobacter pylori motility in pathogenesis and its regulatory mechanism: From clinical investigation to basic research
2022-12-05 Congratulations to Alice on the acceptance of "The New Southbound Policy: Overseas Internship Program" from the Ministry of Education, Taiwan.
2022-12-04 Congratulations to Mira on winning the poster awards at Taiwan Society of Microbiology Annual Congress.
2022-12-03 CY was invited to give a talk at the 2022 Taiwan Society of Microbiology Annual Meeting.
2022-11-18 Congratulations to Alice on the acceptance of the scholarship "Direct Admission to Doctoral Program from Master's Program" from NYCU.
2022-11-15 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "eBioMedicine".
2022-11-11 Congratulations to Andrea and Alice on the acceptance of their paper published in BMC Microbiology !
Title: Anti-Helicobacter pylori activity of potential probiotic Lactiplantibacillus pentosus SLC13 .
2022-10-28 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "Frontiers in Immunology".
2022-10-28 Congratulations to Alice on winning the honorable mention award at "Three Minute Thesis Competition of Life Sciences".
2022-10-05 Congratulations to Jean on the acceptance of the Scholarship "Pilot Program to Cultivate Outstanding Doctoral Students".
2022-10-05 Congratulations to Alice on the acceptance of the Scholarship from "Xin Miao Education Foundation" (only 2 slots for NYCU) !!
https://www.xinmiaoedu.org/index/NwsShow.aspx?CDE=NWS22112311453101895
2022-09-26 CY was invited to give a talk at Center for Shockwave Medicine and Tissue Engineering, Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.
2022-09-25 CY was invited to give a talk at "Contemporary Urology Forum, 2022" (TVGH).
2022-09-06 CY was invited to give a talk at the Graduate Institute of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, National Taiwan University.
2022-08-31 Congratulations to Jazon on the acceptance of his paper published in Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection !
Title: Characterization of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus lugdunensis isolated from sterile body fluids in a medical center in Taiwan: a 12-year longitudinal epidemiological study
2022-08-25 & 27 We host the 26th Bacteriology Conference. CY is the committee chair of this conference.
2022-08 CY was invited to review papers for the journals "Open Forum Infectious Diseases" and "Food Bioscience".
2022-08 A big congratulations to Jean, Red, Alan, and Andrea on passing their thesis defense.
2022-08 Welcome to the lab, Ella and Eva.
2022-07 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology".
2022-06 CY was invited to review paper for the journal "The Lancet Microbe", "Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite), and " International Journal of Nanomedicine".
2022-06 Congratulations to our new Ph.D. student Carl Bregente !! He has been successfully awarded the Elite Scholarship and MOE Scholarship from our government.
2022-06 We received the support from "Ministry of Science and Technology Research Promotion Center for Life Sciences" to host 2022 bacteriology conference.
2022-06 Congratulations to Jean and Ona on winning the honorable mention award at "2022 Annual Academic Poster Seminar-Yang Ming Campus".
2022-06 Our paper was accepted for publication in "Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance".
Title: Plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants in fluoroquinolone-nonsusceptible Escherichia coli isolated from patients with urinary tract infections in a university hospital in Taiwan, 2009-2010 and 2020.
2022-05 Our paper was accepted for publication in "BMC Microbiology".
Title: Whole-genome-sequence-based characterization of an extensively drug-resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli EC1390.
2022-05 Congratulations to Andrea, Mira, Van, and Carl on the acceptance of NYCU-OIA Ph.D. scholarship and joining our lab to study bacterial pathogenesis !
2022-04 Congratulations to Alice and Jean on winning the awards at IMI master thesis competition.
2022-03 Congratulations to Liza on the acceptance of TIGP-MMP Ph.D. scholarship and joining our lab to study phage therapy !
2022-03 Welcome on board !! Sophia (Shu-Fei Tang). (Undergraduate student).
2022-03 Our paper was accepted for publication in "Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology". (SCI, IF: 5.293, Ranking: 33/137 Microbiology)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.726256/abstract
Uremic Toxin-Producing Bacteroides Species Prevail in the Gut Microbiota of Taiwanese CKD Patients: an Analysis using the New Taiwan Microbiome Baseline Taiwan gut Microbiota in Health and Chronic Kidney Disease
2022-03 Our paper was accepted for publication in "Frontiers in Microbiology". (SCI, IF: 5.624, Ranking: 28/137 Microbiology)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.703113/full