07/10/2025 Awarded “113學年度教學特優教師-教學優良獎"
08/17/2025 Congrats on Tzu-Ting for receiving the First Place of poster presentation in the SNeRD Taiwan - TNS 2025 Joint Annual Meeting (台灣神經罕見疾病學會-台灣基礎神經科學學會 2025年會暨聯合學術會議)
08/17/2025 Congrats on Yu-Hsuan for receiving the Second Place of poster presentation in the SNeRD Taiwan - TNS 2025 Joint Annual Meeting (台灣神經罕見疾病學會-台灣基礎神經科學學會 2025年會暨聯合學術會議)
03/23/2025 Congrats on Ju-Ching for receiving the 2025年永信李天德醫藥基金會壁報論文獎 優等獎 of poster presentation in the CPS of 39th JACBS
08/02/2025 Give a talk in The 29th Conference on Bacteriology in NTU, Taipei
07/09/2025 Give a talk in Indiana University School of Medicine, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute
04/15/2025 Give a talk in NTUCM
03/22/2025 Give a a talk in The 8th Annual Conference of Taiwan Microbiota Consortium (2025 ACTMC) & The 3rd Annual Conference of Asia Pacific Microbiota Consortium
02/11/2025 Give a poster presentation in Mind Mood & Microbes 2025
01/13/2025 Give a talk in TIGP-INS Retreat
01/02/2025 Give a talk in iSynapse
08/04/2025 Po-Cheng joining as a PhD student, welcome
07/21/2025 Chia-Chen joining as a PhD student, welcome
03/06/2025 Natalie joining as a undergraduate student, welcome
02/05/2025 Zakir joining as a PhD student, welcome
Prof. Wu has been selected as a member of the EMBO Global Investigator Network! This recognition strengthens his commitment to exploring how microbial signals in the gut-brain axis shape stress responses and threat-coping mechanisms. A huge thanks to Prof. Wu's incredible team, mentors, NSTC, NCKU, and all collaborators who have supported this journey. Wu lab will look forward to fostering scientific collaborations between Taiwan and Europe while shedding light on the fascinating interplay between gut microbiota and brain function.
This work is mainly contributed by Tzu-Ting Lai. Initially, Tzu-Ting learned to master vagotomy (cut vagus nerve) in mice for the revision of other paper. She observed that vagotomy can restore the subtle decrease of locomotion in microbiota-depleted mice. Later on, she came up with the idea that it could be related to the gut hormone regulation. Eventually, she identified one bacteria, L. reuteri, that can reduce GLP-1 in the blood and restore the behavior deficit induced by microbiota depletion.
This unexpected finding has finally been accepted by npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. It is one of the Nature Portfolio journals. It is an open-access journal that only accepts less than 100 papers annually. Therefore, I truly think it is not easy to get in. If you want to find out more, please visit the blog post done by Tzu-Ting Lai in SpringerNature Research Communities/Behind the paper
11/20/2024 Congrats on Tzu-Ting for receiving the Excellent Research Award from IBMS, NCKU
11/05/2024 Congrats on Tzu-Ting for receiving the 第34屆王民寧優秀論文獎
07/22/2024 Tzu-Hsuan finished her MS dissertation defense, congrats!
07/22/2024 Sin-Mei finished her MS dissertation defense, congrats!
04/26/2024 Congrats on Sin-Mei for receiving the 2024年醫學院研究日 碩士生獲獎
04/22/2024 Congrats on Sin-Mei for receiving the Most Popular Award in Progress Report
04/04/2024 Congrats on Tzu-Ting for receiving the CINP Student Encouragement Award
04/04/2024 Congrats on Yu-Hsuan for receiving the CINP Student Encouragement Award.
02/21/2024 Congrats on Tzu-Ting for receiving the SECOND place of poster presentation in Research Day (2024 醫學院研究日)
02/03/2024 Congrats on Tzu-Ting for receiving the SECOND place of oral presentation in Research Day (2024 醫學院研究日)
12/26/2024 Awarded “2024 成杏基金會優秀論文獎 "
10/23/2024 Give a talk in Chi Mei Medical Center
08/24/2024 Hold a nano-symposium and give a talk in the tSfN 2024
01/20/2024 Give a talk in the retreat of Chinese Physiological Society
01/08/2024 Give a talk in Kaohsiung CGMH Psychiatry
09/12/2024 Host Dr Yi-Ting Cheng from Caltech and chair her talk in Physiology Seminar
08/23/2024 Host Prof Tony KT Lam from U of Toronto and chair his talk in tSfN 2024
09/13/2024 Cheng-Yueh joining as a undergraduate student, welcome
08/01/2024 Chia-Yu Tung joining as a MS student, welcome
07/22/2024 Wei-Chen Chen joining as a MS student, welcome
Our latest review article on "Butterflies in the Gut: the Interplay between Intestinal Microbiota and Stress" has just been published in the "Journal of Biomedical Science" (supported by the NSTC, Taiwan) This review describes current findings and potential gut-brain axis pathways regarding microbiota in stress hormone regulation, mainly about rodent models. Thanks to all my students who contributed to this review.
Our paper "Microbial metabolites regulate social novelty via CaMKII neurons in the BNST" is now published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (PDF). Brain, Behavior, and Immunity in 2022 JCR IF = 15.1; Top 10 in Neuroscience (8/272, 3%), Immunology (10/161, 6%), and Psychiatry (6/155, 4%) fields. This study uncovers the fascinating role of microbial metabolites short-chain fatty acids in shaping social behavior. This findings was discovered by my PhD student, Chia-Wei Liou. Chia-Wei's hard work and dedication have played a crucial role in uncovering this interesting study. We are incredibly proud of his achievements and grateful for his invaluable contributions to our research.
Congratulations, Chia-Wei! 🎉
11/23/2023 Our paper about gut microbiota and locomotion was accepted at npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
07/15/2023 Proof version of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity paper: Web version, PDF
12/22/2023 Chia-Wei received his PhD degree, big congrats!
12/08/2023 Congrats on Tzu-Ting and Yu-Hsuan for receiving the second place of oral competition ; Chia-Wei for receiving the honorable mention of oral competition; Tzu-Hsuan for receiving the second place of poster competition in Taiwan Metabolomics Society Academic Symposium
11/06/2023 Congrats on Chia-Wei for receiving the Excellent Research Award from IBMS, NCKU
09/08/2023 Congrats on Yu-Hsuan for receiving the 崇越論文大賞 佳作
07/17/2023 Jia-Ying finished her MS dissertation defense, congrats!
07/05/2023 Yu-Hsuan finished her MS dissertation defense, congrats!
03/19/2023 Congrats on Yu-Hsuan for receiving the 2023年永信李天德醫藥基金會壁報論文獎 特優獎 of poster presentation in the CPS of 37th JACBS
07/03/2023 Promoted to tenured Associate Professor (starting Feb, 2023)
04/20/2022 Awarded “2021年度最佳論文獎" in College of Medicine, NCKU
11/03/2023 Give a talk in Department of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Cheng University
10/13/2023 Give a talk in faculty seminar of Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, NCKU
10/01/2023 Give a talk in Taiwan-US Bilateral Cooperation Neuroscience Institutional Exchange Conference
04/07/2023 Give a talk in the Ying Hai High School
03/30/2023 Give a talk in the Institute of Physiology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
03/05/2023 Give a talk in the Conference of 2023 Breast Milk and Gut Microbiota in Human Health—Current Update @ NCKU
02/15/2023 Promotion talk
01/09/2023 Give a talk in TIGP-INS retreat
11/11/2023 Host Prof. Chien-Ping Ko (USC) and Jan Ko (Caltech) in College of Medicine NCKU
10/26/2023 Host Prof. Sang Sun Yoon from Yonsei Unversity (Korea) in College of Medicine NCKU
11/16/2023 Yu-Chia joining as a undergraduate researcher, welcome
09/04/2023 Jia-Wei joining as a MS student, welcome
07/17/2023 Ru-Qing joining as a MS student, welcome
12/15/2023 Lab celebration
12/03/2023 Wu Lab Open House for kids
07/26/2023 Lab celebration
Our anxiety and gut metabolites paper is published in journal Neuropharmacology! This findings was initially discovered by JT Wu, the first graduate student in the lab (MS '2021), and then was completed with other graduate students' help. Great team work.
12/23/2022 Host the Christmas Party for International Students for College of Medicine at NCKU
12/22/2022 Congrats on Christina for receiving the SECOND place of Summer Undergraduate Research in Medical Sciences Research, NCKU 2022
12/05/2022 Give a talk in the panel session of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) @ Phoenix, Arizona
11/12-16/2022 Two posters were presented by PhD students in the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) @ San Diego, California
11/05/2022 Give a talk in the Autumn Camp of The Taiwan Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
10/04/2022 Awarded “醫學系教學優良教師 " in NCKU
09/27/2022 Awarded “2022 國際頂尖期刊獎 " in NCKU
10/16/2022 Give a talk in the Taiwan Child Neurology Society "Translational Medicine of Autism Spectrum Disorders ― Bridging the Gap Between Basic Science and Clinical Practice"
08/27/2022 Give a talk in The 5th Annual Conference of Taiwan Microbiota Consortium (2022 ACTMC)
08/01/2022 Sin-Mei joining as a MS student, welcome
07/23/2022 Give a talk in the 12th Annual Symposium of Graduate Institutes of Clinical Medicine Biomedical Informatics and Translational Researches
05/17/2022 Our new protocol paper about gut metabolites infusion was accepted at JoVE
03/27/2022 Congrats on Tzu-Ting for receiving the SECOND place of oral presentation in the 36th JACBS
03/26/2022 Give a talk in the annual symposium of the Gastroenterological Society of Taiwan
03/26/2022 Give a talk in the Physiological Symposium of the 36th JACBS
03/04/2022 Congrats on Chia-Wei for receiving the SECOND place of oral presentation in Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, NCKU
01/27/2022 Congrats on Chia-Wei for receiving the SECOND place of poster presentation and Honorable Mention of oral presentation in Research Day (2022 醫學院研究日)
01/20/2022 Congrats on Kuan-Min for receiving the FIRST place of Summer Undergraduate Research in Medical Sciences Research, NCKU 2021
01/18/2022 Give a talk in TIGP-INS retreat
01/08/2022 Give a talk in Asia Microbiome Conference- Press release 1, 2
12/30/2021 Gave a talk in National Defense Medical Center
12/15/2021 Awarded Wu Ho-Su TBF Medical Award (吳火獅醫學獎)- Press release 1, 2, 3, 4
11/05/2021 Gave a talk in Human Gut Microbiome Summit
10/30/2021 Gave a talk in The Physiological Symposium at National Cheng Kung University for 90 yrs anniversary
10/27/2021 Gave a talk in National Taiwan University Hospital
10/21/2021 Gave a talk in The 8th World Congress on Targeting Microbiota
10/21/2021 Christina joining as a undergraduate researcher, welcome
10/18/2021 Gave a talk in Department of Microbiology and Immunology, NCKU
10/13/2021 Dong-Ting joining as a undergraduate researcher, welcome
10/16/2021 Gave a talk about career development in International Conference of Developmental Biology, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
10/07/2021 Gave a talk in Institute of Neuroscience, NYCU
09/30/2021 Gave a talk in Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, NSYSU
09/23/2021 Awarded “2021 國際頂尖期刊獎 " in NCKU
09/10/2021 Gave a talk in The Annual Scientific Meeting of Taiwan Society of Lipids & Atherosclerosis
09/05/2021 Gave a talk in 2021 Taiwan Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting
08/01/2021 Jia-Ying joining as a MS student, welcome
07/15/2021 About 30 press release about our work, incredible!
07/15/2021 Nature paper indexing (Volume 595, Issue 7867, 15 July 2021, Page 409-414)
07/14/2021 Yuan-Yuan finished her MS dissertation defense, congrats!
07/14/2021 MOST x NCKU Press release
07/05/2021 Yu-Hsuan joining as a MS student, welcome
06/27/2021 Chia-Wei presented his work in CPS Annual Meeting and got 4th place in the oral presentation
06/18/2021 Presented in Ultrasound team for Higher Education Sprout Project
06/18/2021 Awarded Outstanding Research in Medical School, NCKU and gave online talk
05/25/2021 Our microbiota and social behavior paper was officially finally accepted at Nature!
04/15/2021 Awarded "成大生理所生理所優良教師"
03/15/2021 Kuan-Min joining as a undergraduate researcher, welcome
02/06/2021 Progress report in Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-yi Christian Hospital
02/09/2021 Lab get together for Lunar New Year and farewell to Jo-Ting Wu
01/23/2021 House warming party (lab)
01/19/2021 Tzu-Ting finished her MS dissertation defense, congrats!
1/17/2020 TIGP retreat- Titled "Wired or Wireless Network of Bacterial Metabolites in the Gut-Brain Axis
12/19/2019 Great pleasure to attend the talk and the dinner given by Prof Peng Jin from Emory U.
12/05/2019 Great pleasure to attend the lunch and the talk given by Prof Ann-Shyn Chiang from NTHU. Really inspiring.
11/22/2019 Give a talk about "Fantastic Bugs and Where to Find Them: Targeting Gut Microbiota-Mediated Neural Circuits in Social Behavior" @ Chang Gung University
11/09/2019 Congrats on Tzu-Ting for receiving the Award of Excellence in Progress Report and Award of Best Voice in the academia year 2019.
11/09/2019 Congrats on Jo-Ting for receiving the Award of Good at Posture in the academia year 2019.
11/07/2019 Two excellent lab posters coming out this year (Jo-Ting Wu and Tzu-Ting Lai)
9/5-6/2019 Physiological Society retreat! First two posters from the lab. Good job everyone.
9/5-6/2019 Physiological Society retreat! Serving one of the speaker in panel discussion
08/20/2019 Giving a talk about "Fantastic Bugs and Where to Find Them" in ICOB-NCKU retreat. Love this title so much.
08/05/2019 Yuan-Yuan Lin (Graduate student (M.S.) ) joined our lab. Welcome!
07/30/2019 Congrats on Yu-Han Peng from Institute of Lighting and Energy Photonics, College of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University finishing the MS thesis dissertation.
06/21/2019 Congrats on Jia-Ying for getting the fellowship of MOST Undergraduate Research
06/17/2019 Giving a talk about career choice to the students of the Neuroscience Seminar, Department of Physiology, NCKU
06/07/2019 Got "Top Download Article 2017-2018" from the publisher Wiley. Hope people cite the paper after they read.....
06/03/2019 Giving a talk in the Immunology and Infection Disease Journal Club, NCKU
03/24/2019 Giving a talk in Chinese Physiological Society (CPS) seminar in The 34thJoint Annual Conference of Biomedical Science
03/21/2019 Tzu-Hsuan Yao (undergrad) joined our lab. Welcome!
3/6-7/2019 Serving the chairman and speaker in The 5th Microbiome R&D and Business Collaboration Congress Asia
01/25/2019 Lab is finally up and running
01/23/2019 Giving a 20 min talk in TIGP-INS retreat
01/15/2019 Jai-Ying Xue (undergrad) joined our lab. Welcome!
01/2/2019 Yu-Chia Hsu (undergrad) joined our lab. Welcome!
12/22/2018 Giving a 8 min talk about the delight and challenges to be an academic reesearcher in BioGroup Symposium
12/04/2018 Tzu-Ting Lai (Graduate student (M.S.) ) joined our lab. Welcome!
12/04/2018 Finally we get our animal training!
11/10/2018 Back to NSYSU with CW and share our life experience
11/02/2018 Giving another talk in National Sun Yat-sen University as a alumni
10/31/2018 Giving a 2 hour talk in National University of Tainan
09/29/2018 Giving a 12 min talk in Taiwan Neuroscience Society for the introduction of new PI.
09/28/2018 Giving the very first talk in NCKU for faculties. Thank you for everyone's coming.
09/25/2018 Getting close to the end of lab remodeling.
09/24/2018 Our new ceiling. Thanks to my student CW's help.
09/18/2018 We got a new lab sink.
09/17/2018 Flood in the lab due to the sink rebuilding. Thanks to my students' help.
09/12/2018 First lab meeting to discuss lab managing and potential projects.
09/12/2018 Jo-Ting Wu (Graduate student (M.S.) ) joined our lab. Welcome!
09/10/2018 Chia-Wei Liou (Graduate student (Ph.D.) ) joined our lab. Welcome!
08/29/2018 Lab and office are waxed
08/26/2018 Lab website is online
08/24/2018 First grant proposal submitted
08/21/2018 First animal protocol submitted